Quickling

[Shade]

Agreed. 120 feet is still within the realms of attainable by other creatures, and still plenty fast even in an antimagic field.

Does this capture what we've discussed adequately?

Greater Alacrity (Su): A quickling moves and attacks with supernatural swiftness. It has a +5 haste bonus to its Armor Class and a +120 ft. enhancement bonus to its land speed (already factored into the statistics above). Additionally, a quickling may make an additional standard action each round. Thus, a quickling can move, attack, and then move again in the same round.

 

[Mortis]

Greater Alacrity (Su): A quickling moves and attacks with supernatural swiftness. It has a +5 haste bonus to its Armor Class and a +120 ft. enhancement bonus to its land speed (already factored into the statistics above). Additionally, a quickling may make an additional standard action each round. Thus, a quickling can move, attack, and then move again in the same round.

That's fine, it makes Spring Attack pretty redundant though.

Regards
Mortis

 

[BOZ]

exactly - we won't need it.

i like what Shade came up with. don't we still want this part though?

"When making a full attack action, a quickling may make two extra attacks with any manufactured weapon it is holding. The attack is made using the creature's highest attack bonus with that weapon."

 

[Shade]

I can see keeping that.

Once we finish this fella, I'm immediately statting up a quickling scout/dervish to see how sick this thing can be. That might provide useful insight for CR and LA.

 

[Aspect of BOZ]

heheh...

what size is this guy going to be? at 2-feet tall, it could be either Tiny or Small...

 

[Shade]

I'd recommed Tiny, to help balance its super powers.

 

[demiurge1138]

I like greater alacrity, and definately agree that quicklings are Tiny. Big for Tiny, but Tiny. Like Shade said, helps balance its superpowers when its shortswords only deal a d3 of damage.

Demiurge out.

 

[Conaill]

How would the Greater Alacrity interact with the Slow spell, increased encumbrance, etc?

Maybe Greater Alacrity should double the speed, rather than add a flat 120 ft. In that case, a Slowed Quickling would drop from 240 ft. to 120 ft. Otherwise, it would only drop from 240 ft. to 180 ft.

I think Slowing a Quickling should be a fairly obvious, and effective, tactic...

 

[Shade]

I'm not following ya, Conaill. If the quickling's base speed is 120 feet, plus 120 feet from greater alacrity, it has a total speed of 240 feet. In antimagic, its supernatural speed goes away, dropping it to 120 feet. If subject to a slow spell, its normal speed (not base speed) is halved, so it would be 120 feet.

Of course, since greater alacrity is essentially a haste effect, we could state that a slow spell suppresses it for its duration (since slow normally counters and dispels haste).

 

[demiurge1138]

Agreed that a slow spell should suppress greater alacrity.

Demiurge out.