Rev_Spider
First Post
So I'm planning on running an all illithid savant game and have decided that I want to give the players the option of having some sort of symbiont from the FF at some point in the game. My question is, what do you think a symbiont is "worth"? I've figured four ways of handling this and would appreciate any insight available:
1) increasing the ECL of the character. I don't like this one for obvious reasons... Level Adjustments just shouldn't fluctuate like that.
2) Giving the symbiont XP. Another one I'm hesitant to do... take away from the rest of the party's hard-earned experience (even if it only gets a half share, like a cohort) and give the symbiont a higher chance of controlling the character in question. (also, the symbiont would gain xp at a phenomenal rate, at first, because I prefer the FR method of xp... counting each character's level individually instead of an overall party level
3) give each symbiont a gp value as if it were an intelligent magic item. This is the most preferable, imho, but pricing them would be quite difficult.
4) as is... there's always a chance that a symbiont will take over the character for its own nefarious purpose. Of course, we're dealing with illithids here, so will saves are high and purposes are already fairly nefarious.
1) increasing the ECL of the character. I don't like this one for obvious reasons... Level Adjustments just shouldn't fluctuate like that.
2) Giving the symbiont XP. Another one I'm hesitant to do... take away from the rest of the party's hard-earned experience (even if it only gets a half share, like a cohort) and give the symbiont a higher chance of controlling the character in question. (also, the symbiont would gain xp at a phenomenal rate, at first, because I prefer the FR method of xp... counting each character's level individually instead of an overall party level
3) give each symbiont a gp value as if it were an intelligent magic item. This is the most preferable, imho, but pricing them would be quite difficult.
4) as is... there's always a chance that a symbiont will take over the character for its own nefarious purpose. Of course, we're dealing with illithids here, so will saves are high and purposes are already fairly nefarious.
