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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AvarielAvenger" data-source="post: 263673" data-attributes="member: 5351">Well, I'v got a few suggestions for what the ancestral feats could do, if you don't mind.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A simple +1 or +2 Defense to all Shugenja NPCs, perhaps.  With armies that have more than half of their power level reliant on Shugenja, perhaps a +1 defense there as well.I'd say this would be more of a DM decision on affecting NPCs with greater effect, like my chosen Ancestral Feat.  However, your feat is slightly different, and I could see a +1 bonus to defense or offense for any army that contains a high level NPC/PC in command if you took this feat.Actually, it's accessible to both the Dragon and the Phoenix.  I considered this feat myself.  I'd say it would give you a bonus to all of the following:  Spying on other clans, learning ancient knowledge about artifacts, (like how to destroy them), and giving any army/world effecting spells you cast a bonus.  Or you could simply give a +1 or +2 to attack to all Shugenja or armies that contain more than half of their PL in Shugenja units.Hmmm.  Well, I have no idea what the outsiders are in Rokugan.  I would suppose this would give you an attack bonus against them.  I'd say with a -2 to Diplomacy your Clan would have a harder time dealing with NPC factions and forging alliances, however.  I'd say this should give you either the Biology research IR starting feat for free, or a flat +5% on the Biology research advancement tables.  In other words, with this feat, you could have a 25% resistance to magical diseases if you had the 10th level of Biology advanced, and a +5% on the rest as well.  I'd say this would give you a bonus in power level or attack whenever two or more Shugenja are working together within a group.  Easier time figuring out if NPC or even PC factions are trying to trick you, easier time finding out information, and perhaps a bonus to PL for any Monk, assuming the Henshin Mystic PrC is more powerful than a regular Monk like most PrCs.  In other words, if you had a PL 3 Monk NPC/PC, you would gain, let's say, a .5 multiplier to the Monks PL, effectively raising them to 4.5 PL.  I suggest that be rounded down.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Anyway, those are just a few ideas I had.  Creamsteak is of course the final decider of such issues, I just thought I'd throw out a few ways of giving bonuses through those feats.  Hope you liked them.</blockquote>

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