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<blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 6300268" data-attributes="member: 607"><p>I think those examples show the two guidelines that are the basis for all the ability changes in RL:</p><p></p><p>1 - The Mists Are Unknowable: they block, alter or misdirect divinations and all abilities that convey information to the characters. Fear the unknown, as it were.</p><p></p><p>2 - The Mists Corrupt: outside "help" (from the gods, from familiars, from the animals of the land, from Commune with Nature) carry the mark of the Mists. The "help" becomes unreliable, or ends up manifesting an "id" of sorts (the familiar does evil things on his master's behalf when he is asleep). There's an element of "body horror" here.</p><p></p><p>Since it is so easy to alter monsters in DDN, I'd be tempted to *not* tamper with it, and instead just up the HD of all undead (or of undead in the domain of an undead darklord). AND I'd couple that with the Black Box suggestion of how to handle a paladin: the very use of TU would feel like salt in the wound for the realm, drawing the attention of the darklord.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Klaus, post: 6300268, member: 607"] I think those examples show the two guidelines that are the basis for all the ability changes in RL: 1 - The Mists Are Unknowable: they block, alter or misdirect divinations and all abilities that convey information to the characters. Fear the unknown, as it were. 2 - The Mists Corrupt: outside "help" (from the gods, from familiars, from the animals of the land, from Commune with Nature) carry the mark of the Mists. The "help" becomes unreliable, or ends up manifesting an "id" of sorts (the familiar does evil things on his master's behalf when he is asleep). There's an element of "body horror" here. Since it is so easy to alter monsters in DDN, I'd be tempted to *not* tamper with it, and instead just up the HD of all undead (or of undead in the domain of an undead darklord). AND I'd couple that with the Black Box suggestion of how to handle a paladin: the very use of TU would feel like salt in the wound for the realm, drawing the attention of the darklord. [/QUOTE]
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