Making a Homebrew Race, Need Your Help Balancing it

[Oversquid]

I like this race.

The very first thing I thought after reading Far Realm was a Wisdom penalty, not a bonus. Far Realm is associated with madness, madness is associated with a drop in wisdom.

Now, if this is somehow supposed to make them more resistant, than it contradicts in my mind with those whispers. If they're more succeptable, than the whispers fit. This is just a suggestion from what I imagine of the flavor of the race, you decide how it best fits.

I'd have a lot of fun playing this race.

I based most of the stat boosts off of the Half-Farspawn template, and I think it still makes sense.

Yes, Madness does indeed drop Wisdom thanks to the mortal mind's inability to take in everything going on in the Far-Realm. However, since this is a thing with Far-Realm ancestry, they are better at enduring the Far Realm than an ordinary human, and are thus better able to take in all the secrets constantly being whispered.

Where a human would go mad from those whispers, a Tsaghoal would make sense of them and gain more clarity as to the world around them, however, it does have social repercussions, being that the voice does tend to make a Tsaghoal more withdrawn than a human.

I want the Tsaghoal to represent the clarity beyond Madness.

 

[Dandu]

I see what you mean by the Wizard thing, but in a Role-Play perspective, a Wizard would probably make the most sense.

Binder, actually. Or Warlock.

 

[Oversquid]

Binder, actually. Or Warlock.

I don't know what a Binder is, and a Warlock is more of a demonic energy thing, unless I make the power more from madness or something.

Also, I was assuming that the players will only have the 3 Core Rulebooks.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

I don't know what a Binder is, and a Warlock is more of a demonic energy thing, unless I make the power more from madness or something.

Also, I was assuming that the players will only have the 3 Core Rulebooks.

Binder is from Tome of Magic and the flavor of the class is tapping into powerful beings that are not quite gods, not quite demons, not quiet alien... in order to gain some portion of thier power.

Warlock is from Complete Arcane and while the fluff of the class does suggest the power could come from demonic connections, it is by no means a demon-associated class. The fluff also suggests the source of arcane power could come from Fay as well, and I'd imagine it could be fluffed to draw from pretty much anything.

I'd encourage you to become familiar with both classes if at all possible. Either would potentially have excellent role playing potential for this race.

 

[Oversquid]

Binder is from Tome of Magic and the flavor of the class is tapping into powerful beings that are not quite gods, not quite demons, not quiet alien... in order to gain some portion of thier power.

Warlock is from Complete Arcane and while the fluff of the class does suggest the power could come from demonic connections, it is by no means a demon-associated class. The fluff also suggests the source of arcane power could come from Fay as well, and I'd imagine it could be fluffed to draw from pretty much anything.

I'd encourage you to become familiar with both classes if at all possible. Either would potentially have excellent role playing potential for this race.

I'm familiar with the Warlock, just not the Binder, still, I don't want to add more complication to this race than is necessary, and theres nothing stopping you from changing it from Wizard to Warlock/Binder/Favored Soul/...

I guess what I'm saying is, is that if I can summarize with only the Core 3 Rulebooks, then that's what I'm going to do.

I'll still see if I can find me a copy of Tome of Magic though for reference.

 

[Rampant]

It still feels a little op for an LA 1.

I'd suggest reducing the range of blindsense, and ditching transform.

 

[Oversquid]

It still feels a little op for an LA 1.

I'd suggest reducing the range of blindsense, and ditching transform.

Ok, what about those things is OP, and why?

 

[Rampant]

It's not that they're individually too much, i's just that the race has lots of stuff going for it and those are the abilities i liked the least.