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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7476798" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>It wasn't the IP issue I was worrying about but that when a random person reads the monster entry they likely won't know who the Hanim are and think "What's a hanim? I can't find them in any monster lists!"</p><p></p><p>Explaining they're humans makes it a lot clearer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Updating <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7384317#post7384317" target="_blank"><strong>Valgoss Working Draft</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was instinctively going to suggest the LA +1 version to discourage mini-maxing but having only one of the Gifts work outside Maelost means it isn't worth bothering with. It's like the special equipment drow have that evaporate outside the Underdark - "just for the adventure items".</p><p></p><p>I could see a character with multiple worms being a higher CR. The Slaiyith's gifts are functionally equivalent to magic items. The physical gifts aren't that great, mostly being equal to the weakest versions of a stat-boosting item (ie a Gift of Dexterity gives the same bonus as a 4,000 gp pair <em>+2 gloves of Dexterity</em>). The magic-boosting ones are based on <em>metamagic rods</em> though, so a spellcaster with the Gift of Empowerment effectively has a 73,000 gp <em>greater metamagic rod of empower</em>.</p><p></p><p>The Enlarge and Extend gifts match less powerful 24,500 gp rods.</p><p></p><p>The bigger issue is the worms are equivalent to SLOTLESS magic items so, so a character can benefit from them all simultaneously rather than only be able to wield one at a time like a <em>metamagic rod</em>. that's 224,000 gp-equivalent if you use the SRD "double price for no space limitation" rule, which'll put NPC-type characters well above their wealth by level. Even a 20th level NPC is only supposed to have 200k worth in gear.</p><p></p><p>The question is how much does the 4 hp per worm cost balance that, especially when it can be partially or entirely offset by a Constitution worm? A 12th level caster with a Con worm plus two magic worms has the same HP as a "wormless" character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7476798, member: 57383"] It wasn't the IP issue I was worrying about but that when a random person reads the monster entry they likely won't know who the Hanim are and think "What's a hanim? I can't find them in any monster lists!" Explaining they're humans makes it a lot clearer. Updating [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7384317#post7384317"][B]Valgoss Working Draft[/B][/URL]. I was instinctively going to suggest the LA +1 version to discourage mini-maxing but having only one of the Gifts work outside Maelost means it isn't worth bothering with. It's like the special equipment drow have that evaporate outside the Underdark - "just for the adventure items". I could see a character with multiple worms being a higher CR. The Slaiyith's gifts are functionally equivalent to magic items. The physical gifts aren't that great, mostly being equal to the weakest versions of a stat-boosting item (ie a Gift of Dexterity gives the same bonus as a 4,000 gp pair [I]+2 gloves of Dexterity[/I]). The magic-boosting ones are based on [I]metamagic rods[/I] though, so a spellcaster with the Gift of Empowerment effectively has a 73,000 gp [I]greater metamagic rod of empower[/I]. The Enlarge and Extend gifts match less powerful 24,500 gp rods. The bigger issue is the worms are equivalent to SLOTLESS magic items so, so a character can benefit from them all simultaneously rather than only be able to wield one at a time like a [I]metamagic rod[/I]. that's 224,000 gp-equivalent if you use the SRD "double price for no space limitation" rule, which'll put NPC-type characters well above their wealth by level. Even a 20th level NPC is only supposed to have 200k worth in gear. The question is how much does the 4 hp per worm cost balance that, especially when it can be partially or entirely offset by a Constitution worm? A 12th level caster with a Con worm plus two magic worms has the same HP as a "wormless" character. [/QUOTE]
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