Reflavoring the Shardmind (PHB 3)

[FreeXenon]

Klaus do you have any other really simple race reflavorings like that lying around?

 

[Klaus]

Any one you're looking for specifically?

 

[FreeXenon]

Any one you're looking for specifically?

None in particular. Any reflavoring that you have done that is as simple and powerful as the Shardmind -> Psiforged.

 

[Klaus]

Well, nothing as simple as that (that I can say at the moment... I have an article that includes a couple, let's see how that shakes out).

 

[FreeXenon]

Sounds good. Thanks for the heads up. I will be looking forward to it. =)

 

[Spatula]

Here's my reflavoring:

Shardmind = Psiforged.

I don't know if that really works with the racial power. But then, I suppose you would be reflavoring the racial power as well...

There was a 4e dark sun story hour where one of the characters was mechanically a shardmind, but in the game was a human who had been somehow transformed into living crystal. I think he still looked kinda human, but if anyone got close they could see he was rock instead of flesh, so he covered up as much as possible.

 

[Klaus]

I don't know if that really works with the racial power. But then, I suppose you would be reflavoring the racial power as well...

There was a 4e dark sun story hour where one of the characters was mechanically a shardmind, but in the game was a human who had been somehow transformed into living crystal. I think he still looked kinda human, but if anyone got close they could see he was rock instead of flesh, so he covered up as much as possible.

In Keith Baker's first Eberron trilogy, one of the bad guys is Harmattan, a warforged whose body was composed of thousands of tiny metal bits controlled by a warforged floating head. So there's even canon precedence for a warforged to disassemble his body into a cloud of shrapnel.

 

[FreeXenon]

Good stuff.

Yea, changing the name of the power and the flavor is acceptable too. Above, in my posted example, I changed the Shardmind's "Shard Swarm" power from "Shard Swarm" and "You loosen your mental grip on your physical form, distracting your foes with a swarm of shards. You then re-form elsewhere."
"Angelic Presence" and "You call upon the divine presence and power of the angelic soul within you unleashing an aura of power that confuses and overwhelms those who mean you harm.", albeit I did not really take into account the teleport portion, which I should do at some point, perhaps by adding something like ", while twisting the strands of fate to move you closer to safety." or something like that.

 

[FreeXenon]

In Keith Baker's first Eberron trilogy, one of the bad guys is Harmattan, a warforged whose body was composed of thousands of tiny metal bits controlled by a warforged floating head. So there's even canon precedence for a warforged to disassemble his body into a cloud of shrapnel.

Oh yea, that is right, and I just read that a few months ago.
Good call.

 

[Bold or Stupid]

Here's my reflavoring:

Shardmind = Psiforged.

I opened this thread to say this. Thanks Klaus.