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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7506600" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7261913#post7261913" target="_blank">Resonance Working Draft</a>.I switched the formatting of "Example:" from italic to bold plus indented paragraph so the text flows flow a little better.Here's the original text:Harvest the Fruit of Passion:The world belongs to the bold and dashing caprines level 6 or higher. A night of heaven with the fairest of them all will echo throughout the ether of this world. The object of the caprine's attention must fail a saving throw vs paralysis for the suitor to prevail. Two penalties apply: a) -5 if charmed, b) subtract the caprine's Cha bonus adjustment, c) -1 per aptly role-plated courtship maneuvers at the DM's discretion.To determine the actual harmonic resonance, add the partners Cha bonus to the amount by which the saving throw failed. If the caprine is of lower level than his partner, multiply the result above by the difference in their levels/HD. Following particularly raucous nights, partners other than dryads may expect a commitment in absence of which said partners may feel rather miffed and eager for requital.Duration: 1 night or 1d4+4 hours …… Resonance: see aboveThe caprine can improve the odds of success by "aptly role-plated courtship maneuvers" or simply charming the prospective partner.I'm tempted to make it a bit more "PG" by allowing the caprine and their partner to generate resonate by any activity two people can perform together passionately rather than just… what a "night of heaven" implies. They could just have a really intense game of tennis or recite poems at each other, for example.Also the charm option is a bit "rapey". Maybe change it so charmed targets are easier to "consort" with but generate a lot less resonance? At least have something to encourage the "courtship" approach. Hell, as written the caprine could court the target and then charm them to stack the bonuses, which just seems wrong.I'm also not in favour of the multiplying approach to generating resonance from a higher-HD partner. If a 10th level caprine revels with a 15 HD creature they'll get five times the resonance amount in the original version. I'd rather it was just a flat +X resonance per HD the partner is higher. Perhaps we could have the "courtship bonus" double up to increase the resonance generated as well as affect the ability check?I think we should agree on the rough amount of resonance this method should generate and then reverse-engineer the equation used to figure it out. I'm thinking we ought to base it on the Charisma, Constitution and HD of the two participants, modified by some skill or ability check.</blockquote>

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