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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 467470" data-attributes="member: 1636">Definitely doable.  I think to do anything other than base a campaign on it, the blood-metal brands have to be a special magic item, the branding guy has a feat, skill, or spell to use it, and all three characters involved pay an experience cost.And if there were gods, I'd probably do something like limit it to one brand per point of Constitution.Also, in designing the rules for metabolism, it is really important to remember that it multiplies the rate of aging.  Without that its way overbalanced.In the books, the guys with metabolism had a multiplier to speed, a bonus to dexterity, and maybe one partial action extra per, um, two 'units' of increased metabolism.I once reasoned out the bonus to be (ability score-3)/2.  So to get a brawn endowment you would go find the woodcutter with an 18 strength, make him bedridden with a 3, at net a +7 bonus to your own strength.  Maybe that should be 'divided by 3'.  Or maybe it should be dedicate has a score of three, add their ability bonus to your relevant score.</blockquote>