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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5408779" data-attributes="member: 75712">Great idea! I wholeheartedly approve of awakened potatoes.As a playable race, that might be kind of tough, though what you've got sounds like a good start for a familiar or something.  Well, I'd have to think a bit more about it to give more useful info.  But here are a few things off the top of my head:- By RAW, I don't think a potato can be awakened, not with the Awaken spell anyway; But if the GM is cool with it, good!For the monster version:- looks like you used the Awaken spell as the starting point.  That seems a good a place to start, though it leads to a few inconsistencies.  The obvious one atm is that Plant type uses d8 for HD, not d10- the +20 disguise while hiding underground seems unnecessary to me.  I'd probably make it a +8 or +12 racial bonus when hiding on the ground &/or among vegetation, on salad bars, or something like that.- just my get feeling, but I'd be inclined to give it speed of something like 20ft, and a burrow speed of 20ft.-- mainly only because I have a hard time envisioning a potato moving that fast.  Or really moving at all, really, but that's beside the point.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   If it gets a burrow speed, you might also consider giving it tremorsense.- another suggestion is to ditch the awaken spell rules and animated object stats entirely, and just tweak an existing small-ish plant monster.  There are vegepygmies and myconids that could be "downsized" to tiny size quite easily with the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/improvingMonsters.htm#sizeIncreases" target="_blank">size change rules</a> (in reverse), as well as handful of others that are already tiny, like the CC <a href="http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/plant/mandragora.htm" target="_blank">mandragora</a>.For the character race:I don't have much experience building up a playable race from scratch, so take this with a grain of salt.  Hopefully someone else with better insight will respond.  The following is mostly just potential problms I see, with little in the way of solutions...- The Tiny size, Plant type and darkvision give it a quite a few hefty advantages with respect to poison, mind effects, breathing, critical hits, and so on.  So there probably ought to be some significant ability score offsets, like STR-4, amybe CHA-2 or something. Not sure exactly what or how much, though.  (That's another reason I suggested giving it a slow-ish speed, btw.)- An obvious problem with using a potato as a race is that it doesn't seem to be able to use weapons, wear armor, or have body slots.  This has big implications for power advancement.  Can it use wield a +2 flaming sickle and a dragon hide shield?- Additionally, you ought to explicitly resolve how it manipulates thing, speaks, and so on (especially for purposes of spell casting):  Does it have leafy tendrils as hands?  Does it speak out a mouth or by rustling leaves?  This is important in game when determining how it resists things like a silence spell or being tied up and gagged.  Since, as a monster, the first thing I would think is "I'd better tie up and gag that potato, because it might hurt me!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />- Because Druid is its favored class, you'll have to think about what it means to Wildshape; in its case, Wildshaping into a small or medium creature is potentially a huge power boost, relative to the boost received by a medium  druid Wildshaping into the same form.  Ditto for the animal companion, or familiars for arcane casters.Well, that's a bit much for now.  If I think of anything else, I'll post.  Good luck with this, it sounds fun!  Let us know the final results.Also, just because I am weak, I leave you with this...  [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPsY_nhTtxg"]YouTube - Baked potatoes - Shooting Stars - BBC comedy[/ame]<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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