D&D General Corruption and Feats (i.e. Temptation)

[SkidAce]

If you were going to give free feats (or spells, abilities, etc) for gaining corruption...how many would you let a character have before they succumbed to madness and became (a formless chaos gibbering mouther/fiend/crazed npc/etc) ???

 

[Savage Wombat]

Depends on how long you want the campaign to go on. Also, whether the players know the limit or not.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

I immediatelly had flashback to 3.5 taint. You do not want anyone to see your taint, as you never know how people may react to being shown your taint, so you may waynt to conceal your taint....

 

[SkidAce]

I immediatelly had flashback to 3.5 taint. You do not want anyone to see your taint, as you never know how people may react to being shown your taint, so you may waynt to conceal your taint....

Yeah, we had that issue with Rokugan and Oriental Adventures and the shadow taint.

On a thoughtful note, right now I'm looking at 4-6 feats, ending with an epic boon. (just before they go mad).

 

[Horwath]

5E has so few feat slots that I generally thinks it's a good idea to give extra feats for free at levels: 2,5,9,13,17,20
maybe remove +1 ASI from them if that would make PCs too strong.

 

[Minigiant]

Feats would give corruption equal to their level.

If corruption equals half your Constitution or Charisma score, it is visible physically or mentally respectively.

If corruption equals 75% your Constitution or Charisma score, it is very restrictive physically or mentally respectively and causes heavy mutation or san loss.

If it exceeds either score, you PC mutates to an unplayable mass.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Or you could create a homemade variant of levels of exhaustion.

 

[SkidAce]

5E has so few feat slots that I generally thinks it's a good idea to give extra feats for free at levels: 2,5,9,13,17,20
maybe remove +1 ASI from them if that would make PCs too strong.

I forgot about the ASI increase....hmmmmm.

 

[SkidAce]

Feats would give corruption equal to their level.

If corruption equals half your Constitution or Charisma score, it is visible physically or mentally respectively.

If corruption equals 75% your Constitution or Charisma score, it is very restrictive physically or mentally respectively and causes heavy mutation or san loss.

If it exceeds either score, you PC mutates to an unplayable mass.

So if a PC had a 12 Con, they could get 6 free feats and start showing changes, with a total of 12 before becoming and NPC?

That much power would be tempting indeed. Seems a bit high. My players would gladly take 5 free feats and say "thanks", never gaining another one.

 

[Minigiant]

So if a PC had a 12 Con, they could get 6 free feats and start showing changes, with a total of 12 before becoming and NPC?

That much power would be tempting indeed. Seems a bit high. My players would gladly take 5 free feats and say "thanks", never gaining another one.

Its harsher.

An origin feat costs 1 corruption.
A general feat is 4 corruption

A PC with 12 Con and Cha can get 1 general and 1 origin feat and look normal.

One more feat an they start to look or act off.

At 8 worth of feats, they get physically deformed or mentally twisted.

At 12, NPC mode.