Custom Themes

Agamemmnon

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Hello there, I am currently working on creating some custom themes for a game I'm running in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting.

The setting is generic enough, however, that most - if not all - of these themes should be usable in any setting. Thoughts, comments, and testing would be appreciated. Are they overpowered, underpowered, good, bad?

Basiran Dancer
“What can I do that a regular dancer can't? What, you mean aside from kicking your knee so hard that the kneecap erupts from your skin and skitters across the floor?”

Where bards work with song and poem, basiran dancers work with dance and rhythm. While more likely to be found in courts of intrigue and less likely than bards to roam, they are not immune to wanderlust and might take to the countryside to hone their skills, share their talents, and just see the world.

Basiran Dancer Traits

Secondary Roll: Striker/Leader
Power Source: Martial
Granted Power: You gain the Hit Them Where it Hurts power. Basiran Dancer Powers

The following powers are available to any character who has chosen the Basiran Dancer theme.


Hit Them Where it Hurts Basiran Dancer Feature
You deliver a vicious kick to your foe's 'sensitive' area and deftly dodge past as the pain overwhelms him.

Encounter
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Martial
Standard Action - Melee touch

Target:One creature
Attack:Primary ability vs Fortitude

Hit: 1d8 + primary ability modifier damage, you shift 2 squares, and the target takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.
Level 11: 2d8 + abilty modifer damage.
Level 21: 3d8 + ability modifier damage.

Note: You gain your enhancement bonus to damage and attack rolls from either your implement or your weapon, not both. You cannot use any item powers with this power unless the power comes from a Ki Focus, in which case it acts as a normal implement power.

Feats

Broken Defenses

Prerequisite: Basiran dancer theme, hit them where it hurts power
Benefit: When you hit with your hit them where it hurts power, the target also grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.

Make an Opening

Prerequisite: Basiran dancer theme, hit them where it hurts power
Benefit: When you hit with your hit them where it hurts power, you can forgo shifting. If you do, one ally adjacent to the target can shift a number of squares equal to your primary ability modifier.
 
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I'm confused as to why you think a nut shot would prohibit the use of weapons and other items (like gauntlets of ogre power) and yet allow the use of (for instance) a holy symbol on a martial power.

Just make it deal [w] and have the weapon keyword.
 

Because its an unarmed attack.

The Basiran Dancer is like a monk meets a bard, as will be shown with further powers, especially the utilities.

And it adds the enhancement bonus for balancing issues, but it is neither an implement nor a weapon power.
 

I'd have the power come with an inherent +3/6/9 bonus to attack rolls, like racial powers that don't use weapons or implements. Otherwise, it looks really good!

I'm trying my hand at making homebrew themes too. There's a thread hovering around this forum with my ideas in it, and you can check out Half-Orc_Bard for one of my full ideas. =)
 

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