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<blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1185227" data-attributes="member: 3051">Okay, how about this then, since I feel like brainstorming:Sort the Aspects into three groups.5 Creature types (Dragon, Fey, Outsider, Aberration, Mundane)6 Elements (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Psionic, Shadow)5 Alignments (Good, Evil, Chaotic, Lawful, Unaligned)Mundane means Magical Beast, Beast, Monstrous Humanoid... anything with spell-like abilities is fair game.&nbsp; Maybe find another name, like &quot;Natural&quot;.&nbsp; Basically I was going for (non-Aberration) Prime creatures that aren't Dragons or Fey.&nbsp; Most of their abilities would be of the &quot;+Natural Armor/DR/HP/STR/CON&quot; variety.Unaligned means both True Neutral, and any race that isn't inherently drawn towards any alignment (i.e., &quot;usually neutral&quot; for most PC races).&nbsp; If the race has an alignment subtype like [Evil] or is listed as &quot;always evil&quot; then you should take that alignment instead.Each Sorcerer picks one Aspect from each group to represent their ancestor, for a total of 3 Aspects per person.Since everyone is limited to 1 from each group, you only have to balance those within a single group against each other, instead of having to balance all 16.&nbsp; So, the &quot;Creature type&quot; group might be inherently more important than the &quot;Alignment&quot; group.&nbsp; Each Creature choice might give several choices at each rank, while the Alignment ones might give one, but since the player can only choose one ability anyway it's not a problem.If your ancestor was an Androsphinx, you'd take Mundane, Air, (Chaotic or Good).&nbsp; All varieties of Sphinx would be Mundane+Air, but the alignment would differ.&nbsp; I suppose you could add a sixth Creature group for &quot;Sphinx&quot;, but I think you could cover all the related abilities through the Air group.Anyway, under this modified system, it's easy to figure the groups for each possible ancestor.&nbsp; Take a Doppelganger; it's a Magical Beast, so it gets the &quot;Mundane&quot;.&nbsp; It's got mental Spell-Like Abilities, so it gets &quot;Psionic&quot;.&nbsp; And it's not biased towards any extreme alignment, so it gets &quot;Unaligned&quot;.There's 150 combinations as I wrote it, so players can mix and match to their hearts' content, but it's not much work for you to keep it all balanced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spatzimaus, post: 1185227, member: 3051"] Okay, how about this then, since I feel like brainstorming: Sort the Aspects into three groups. 5 Creature types (Dragon, Fey, Outsider, Aberration, Mundane) 6 Elements (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Psionic, Shadow) 5 Alignments (Good, Evil, Chaotic, Lawful, Unaligned) Mundane means Magical Beast, Beast, Monstrous Humanoid... anything with spell-like abilities is fair game. Maybe find another name, like "Natural". Basically I was going for (non-Aberration) Prime creatures that aren't Dragons or Fey. Most of their abilities would be of the "+Natural Armor/DR/HP/STR/CON" variety. Unaligned means both True Neutral, and any race that isn't inherently drawn towards any alignment (i.e., "usually neutral" for most PC races). If the race has an alignment subtype like [Evil] or is listed as "always evil" then you should take that alignment instead. Each Sorcerer picks one Aspect from each group to represent their ancestor, for a total of 3 Aspects per person. Since everyone is limited to 1 from each group, you only have to balance those within a single group against each other, instead of having to balance all 16. So, the "Creature type" group might be inherently more important than the "Alignment" group. Each Creature choice might give several choices at each rank, while the Alignment ones might give one, but since the player can only choose one ability anyway it's not a problem. If your ancestor was an Androsphinx, you'd take Mundane, Air, (Chaotic or Good). All varieties of Sphinx would be Mundane+Air, but the alignment would differ. I suppose you could add a sixth Creature group for "Sphinx", but I think you could cover all the related abilities through the Air group. Anyway, under this modified system, it's easy to figure the groups for each possible ancestor. Take a Doppelganger; it's a Magical Beast, so it gets the "Mundane". It's got mental Spell-Like Abilities, so it gets "Psionic". And it's not biased towards any extreme alignment, so it gets "Unaligned". There's 150 combinations as I wrote it, so players can mix and match to their hearts' content, but it's not much work for you to keep it all balanced. [/QUOTE]

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