Level Up (A5E) Eberron and Level Up?

[Retreater]

Next week we're going to have Session 0 and character creation for our first Level Up campaign, which we want to do in Eberron.

For the races that don't have corresponding heritages in LU (such as warforged), would it be best to just remove the stat increases? I'd probably need to come up with gifts too, right?

How would you handle Dragonmarks? (Which in 5e are racial variants.)

Thanks!

 

[Ferrousbones]

Issue 0 of Gate Pass Gazette seems Eberron inspired, with having the Artificer, and a Constructed Heritage, which could be inserted as Warforged, tweaked, or used as inspiration for your own work on gifts.

 

[Selganor]

3PP for the win:

You might want to look at the following products from Josh Getry on DTRPG:

Slice of Psionics - The Elan Heritage might stand in for the Kalashtar

Dose of Dungeonpunk - The Talos Heritage might be a more flexible fit for the warforged than the Constructed from GPG#0

Crests of Destiny - Heritage Gifts for Fated Figures could be used as replacements for Dragonmarks (or you use their idea and offer the Dragonmark as a Heritage Gift)

And if the Artificer from GPG#0 isn't enough you might want to check the expanded class from the author of the A5E Artificer Advanced Artificers

Are there any other Eberron races/... that you'd need as heritages? Chances are that someone from the A5E community already did something with them.

 

[Chaltab]

Next week we're going to have Session 0 and character creation for our first Level Up campaign, which we want to do in Eberron.

For the races that don't have corresponding heritages in LU (such as warforged), would it be best to just remove the stat increases? I'd probably need to come up with gifts too, right?

How would you handle Dragonmarks? (Which in 5e are racial variants.)

Thanks

5e races are technically compatible with A5E. You just don't get a Culture if you pick a race/species from a non-A5E source.

 

[Steampunkette]

As far as Dragonmarks, I see two easy ways to handle them:

1) Replace the Heritage Gift for any appropriate Heritages. Making a Half Elf of Lyrandar? Grab either the Elf or Human Heritage, and take the "Mark of the Storm" Heritage Gift. The gift itself is the Least mark. But you gain an upgrade at level 5 for the "Second Set" of abilities to bump it up to a Lesser Mark.

Then make a "Greater Mark" for the "Paragon Gift" at level 10, which improves automatically at 15 to become a Siberys gift.

2) Same thing, but make them feats you take, and give everyone a 1st level feat.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

1) Replace the Heritage Gift for any appropriate Heritages. Making a Half Elf of Lyrandar? Grab either the Elf or Human Heritage, and take the "Mark of the Storm" Heritage Gift. The gift itself is the Least mark. But you gain an upgrade at level 5 for the "Second Set" of abilities to bump it up to a Lesser Mark.

Then make a "Greater Mark" for the "Paragon Gift" at level 10, which improves automatically at 15 to become a Siberys gift.

you'd probably want some way to offset the upgrades, then, considering otherwise they'd just be better then other heritage gifts. maybe you need to roll to get a chance to use them or the gift and paragon gift start weaker then your average gift/paragon gift but when upgraded become better then the average gift/paragon gift. delayed gratification, basically. or you could just bake a flaw into the upgrade.

 

[Corinnguard]

How would you handle Dragonmarks? (Which in 5e are racial variants.)

The least Dragonmark would definitely be a heritage gift as @Steampunkette pointed out. The lesser, greater and Siberys Dragonmarks would be a part of a synergy feat chain that has the heritage gift as a prerequisite.

Would the Dragonmarked Houses be considered Cultures?

 

[Steampunkette]

you'd probably want some way to offset the upgrades, then, considering otherwise they'd just be better then other heritage gifts. maybe you need to roll to get a chance to use them or the gift and paragon gift start weaker then your average gift/paragon gift but when upgraded become better then the average gift/paragon gift. delayed gratification, basically. or you could just bake a flaw into the upgrade.

Oh, I just figure it'd be a lot like Heritage Gifts that provide spellcasting abilities. You gain the first benefit from it at level 1, then it improves (granting access to a new spell) at 5th. Then just do the same for the Paragon Gift.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Oh, I just figure it'd be a lot like Heritage Gifts that provide spellcasting abilities. You gain the first benefit from it at level 1, then it improves (granting access to a new spell) at 5th. Then just do the same for the Paragon Gift.

...i forgot those existed. i wonder how those are balanced against other gifts...

 

[Corinnguard]

Level Up has a number of spell schools beyond the eight typically found in D&D. It is possible that each Dragonmark bestows spells from these other schools.

Other Spell Schools:
acid, affliction, air, arcane, attack, beasts, chaos, cold, communication, compulsion, divine, earth, enhancement, evil, fear, fire, force, good, healing, knowledge, law, lightning, movement, nature, necrotic, negation, obscurement, planar, plants, poison, prismatic, protection, psychic, radiant, scrying, senses, shadow, shapechanging, sound, storm, summoning, technological, telepathy, teleportation, terrain, thunder, time, transformation, unarmed, undead, utility, water, weaponry, weather.

For instance, those with the Mark of Passage could get spells from the Movement and Teleportation schools