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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9674519" data-attributes="member: 2067">I could see it being an alternate species trait. Maybe swapping out Luck or Brave, though you might need a bit more oomph than just telepathy... (psychic resistance? maybe the 'telepathic' wilder feat from the new psion?). Maybe you just say &quot;ghostwise halflings can select telepathy in place of one of their languages&quot; or something. You'd just have to be careful not to make ghostwise the &quot;most powerful&quot; halfling because it has telepathy. I don't think there's anything super taboo about having a variant of the species with different inherent traits. The biggest challenge to most species conversions in 5.24 is going to be the low power of most species. It's not a significant bit of kit, and that wasn't always true for D&amp;D. Some species qualities might have to migrate into feats (origin or otherwise) or class features or something. But telepathy seems pretty easy, since it's not really much of a power bump. Like, it beats having to speak, but it's not really going to help you kill the dragon faster most of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 9674519, member: 2067"] I could see it being an alternate species trait. Maybe swapping out Luck or Brave, though you might need a bit more oomph than just telepathy... (psychic resistance? maybe the 'telepathic' wilder feat from the new psion?). Maybe you just say "ghostwise halflings can select telepathy in place of one of their languages" or something. You'd just have to be careful not to make ghostwise the "most powerful" halfling because it has telepathy. I don't think there's anything super taboo about having a variant of the species with different inherent traits. The biggest challenge to most species conversions in 5.24 is going to be the low power of most species. It's not a significant bit of kit, and that wasn't always true for D&D. Some species qualities might have to migrate into feats (origin or otherwise) or class features or something. But telepathy seems pretty easy, since it's not really much of a power bump. Like, it beats having to speak, but it's not really going to help you kill the dragon faster most of the time. [/QUOTE]

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