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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4167750" data-attributes="member: 1003">"Doing something faster" is another way of saying "using an Action Point", because it allows you more actions per round. I think that's a good way to handle it. You can also simulate "more power" by allowing Daily Powers to be used Per Encounter, and Per Encounter powers At Will. Although I reserve full judgment until I see the full rules, I think it would look like this:Defile - Wizard Power 1At-Will * ArcaneFree Action - PersonalEffect: You gain a Defiling Point which must be spent that round. Spend the Defiling Point either as an Action Point or to reduce a Daily Power to Encounter or an Encounter Power as At-Will.  A Daily or Encounter Power used without the benefit of a Defiling Point is lost as normal and cannot be used even with the benefit of a Defiling Point until you have rested.Side Effect 1: All plant life within a 1-square Burst around you is destroyed. If you are already standing within a Burst (of any size) it expands one further square. The rate of further expansion is modified by the Arability Table.Side Effect 2: Increase your Taint Counter by 1 each time you use this Power. (Effects of Taint t.b.d, but there will definitely be an addiction quality - IR)I'm really not concerned about game balance because I do not intend to allow PCs to be full-blown Defilers. That's a one-way ticket to the Rogues Gallery (aka, being an NPC), like giving in fully to the Dark Side of the Force. Basically this is just a rule-set Wizard PCs can draw on very, very rarely - and possibly at the cost of being kicked out the group. Defilers are universally abhorred.Who said there are no implements? I think this would be a great addition to the setting (wands of tooth and bone, staves from rare trees, obsidian orbs), and a chance to choose new implements, like skull-on-a-stick or weird masks.  Control over the spell component market is about controlling access to Rituals.There are several lizard-like PC races already. Leave thri-kreen as monsters and let Dragonborn rules get a Pterran or Dray label slapped on them.</blockquote>

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