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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6776868" data-attributes="member: 54629">A buff. It's meant to be a bit like a supernatural gift (except more powerful than the examples in the DMG, obviously).EDIT: Come to think of it, maybe I could tone these down even more and just make them like the example blessings found in the DMG. The book says that "a typical blessing mimics the properties of a wondrous item."The bard's player said he thought the Mark of Finding sounded the most interesting. I could have that mark grant him the benefit of a pair of eyes of minute seeing.I could give the dwarf the Mark of the Storm, which grants him the tempest cleric's Wrath of the Storm feature. That doesn't seem that far off from what a wondrous item might grant, and I'm sure the player would be happy with that.Along those lines, giving the rogue a permanent speak with animals effect would also not be out of sorts.With the cleric, since his player expressed an interest in Warding or Sentinel, I could have his mark grant him, say, the Protection fighting style or maybe advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks or something.As for the sorcerer, I could just have her mark give her a breath weapon or, since it's an aberrant mark, I could let it be more powerful than the others' marks, granting her more spells or whatever.KISS, right?And by making them blessings (from Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon), I can take them away if the PCs ever break the vow they made before receiving the gift.The vow would be along the lines of swearing to live "a moral life [that] involves doing good deeds and ensuring that one's actions cause no undeserved harm to other sentient beings". They must also swear to "gladly oppose creatures that dare to commit evil acts or harm the innocent."</blockquote>

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