D&D 3.5 Scoops from Savage Species

[Acmite]

Re: Re: Re: D&D 3.5 Scoops from Savage Species

Dinosaurs are animals in d20 Modern.

Hmmmm....is there a beast category at all in d20 Modern?

 

[Wolf72]

how does the Savage Species 1/2-Ogre compare with that found in the Tome of Horrors/Creature Catalog?

 

[Acmite]

YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, DON'T YOU?!?!

Dr. Druid can now have his very own Animal Friendshipped T-REX!

Suddenly, the options for the animal friendship broaden significantly.....not to mention wild shape...wildshaped owlbears, wildshaped girallons.....

God, I love this. Druids may be something worth playing, now.

My fear is that they'll make both of them Magical Beasts. I can understand this if they keep wildshape as is (it would be much too powerful for druids), but I expect them to change wildshape so that Druid's cannot change into Owlbears and Girallons.

Owlbears and Girallons are not magical beats, IMO, and I think they would lose a lot of flavour if they changed their type to Magical Beasts. But, I don't think animals fits, either. I liked the Beast type, I just hated the definition (normal, non-historical creatures).

Overall, this suggests yet more changes to teh way a Druid's Wildshape works, and more changes to teh druid class in general than I would have expected. Like most people, I was just expecting a removal of the hard weapon proficiencies.

 

[Gez]

I liked the Beast type, I just hated the definition (normal, non-historical creatures).

I just hated the stupid change to "Int score of 1 or 2 only", although it's true a definition like "predators with a reasonnable anatomy" would have been better.

 

[Arani Korden]

Re: Re: Re: Re: D&D 3.5 Scoops from Savage Species

Hmmmm....is there a beast category at all in d20 Modern?

Nope.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Like Wildshape didn't need an overhaul as it is?

I'd like to see Wildshape be something like "You transform into the MM version of a creature of your HD or lower. You retain only your original Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, but you loose the capacity to use any powers you had before the transformation (such as spellcasting, class abilities, skills, feats, racial qualities, etc.)"

You've suddenly a fairly okay-balanced Wildshape...needs some testin', but this looks peachy to me as a baseline.

Frick, I don't think Polymorph needs to be half as complex as it is....but then, I've got pet peeves.

 

[Acmite]

Like Wildshape didn't need an overhaul as it is?

Since the overhaul it got in Masters of the Wild, I've been happy with it. In fact, I don't see any necessary changes at all. YMMV, of course.

 

[d20Dwarf]

I just hated the stupid change to "Int score of 1 or 2 only", although it's true a definition like "predators with a reasonnable anatomy" would have been better.

Well, look at the worg as an example. Why is it a magical beast? It must be the Int score, because it has nothing else going for it. I think that was an early indicator that beasts were supposed to be "natural" animals that didn't exist in the real world. I think the change to animal for most of those is fine, and intelligent beasts should get changed to magical.

Just some supposition.

 

[Spatula]

Also, giant eagles and giant owls are magical beasts with no magic abilities, just a human-like intelligence.

 

[Gez]

Well, look at the worg as an example. Why is it a magical beast? It must be the Int score, because it has nothing else going for it.

Well, except if we use the Tolkien-flavored "strange warg disappearance". Granted, we don't know if the corpse fade or are just taken away by the surviving worgs, but...