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<blockquote data-quote="Gicko" data-source="post: 5112620" data-attributes="member: 87135"><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">*headdesk*</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I CANT have them start out as living creatures, as it would completely ruin the story!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The point of the story is that an evil necromancer's artefact(s) of power have been stolen from him, leaving him week, and unable to command the massive army’s of undead as he once did. SO, he uses what little power remains in him to raise up some dead adventurers, making them both intelligent, and player characters. These undead PC's must now go out and seek more objects of power for their master before going out and retrieving the one that was stolen from him by paladins. Less they all crumble to dust and cease to exist.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Now, personally, I don’t see any room for the players to make living characters and go on a few dozen adventures together before finally making it to the actual PLOT of the whole thing. You don’t start lord of the rings by telling us about the childhood of Souron’s parents, the audience doesn’t care about them! They care about Sauron! And the Ring! You cant tell a story about a time were they don’t even exist yet and call it the same story!</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Now. I would <em><strong><u>REALLLY </u></strong></em>appreciate it if someone would actually <em><u>help me </u></em>with the questions i have been TRYING to get answered since i started this thread!</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em><strong><u><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Are these templates balanced against normal, non-homebrewed</span></span></span></u></strong></em><em><strong><u><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> creatures and races such as humans and goblins? yes or no?</span></span></u></strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em><strong><u><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">if yes, HOW DO I FIX IT!?</span></span></u></strong></em><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span></span><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I.E. "reduce the Int bonus of race X, and maybe add a racial bonus to Z, maybe something like "*insert racial bonus here*". That should even things up"</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I need NUMBERS here people! If race X is over powered, TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT! do NOT just say "y3a da7 0n3s B4d, 0ki3 g'b!e Na0" actually <u>help </u>me with the issue!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gicko, post: 5112620, member: 87135"] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]*headdesk*[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]I CANT have them start out as living creatures, as it would completely ruin the story![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]The point of the story is that an evil necromancer's artefact(s) of power have been stolen from him, leaving him week, and unable to command the massive army’s of undead as he once did. SO, he uses what little power remains in him to raise up some dead adventurers, making them both intelligent, and player characters. These undead PC's must now go out and seek more objects of power for their master before going out and retrieving the one that was stolen from him by paladins. Less they all crumble to dust and cease to exist.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]Now, personally, I don’t see any room for the players to make living characters and go on a few dozen adventures together before finally making it to the actual PLOT of the whole thing. You don’t start lord of the rings by telling us about the childhood of Souron’s parents, the audience doesn’t care about them! They care about Sauron! And the Ring! You cant tell a story about a time were they don’t even exist yet and call it the same story![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]Now. I would [I][B][U]REALLLY [/U][/B][/I]appreciate it if someone would actually [I][U]help me [/U][/I]with the questions i have been TRYING to get answered since i started this thread![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [I][B][U][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]Are these templates balanced against normal, non-homebrewed[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/U][/B][/I][I][B][U][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] creatures and races such as humans and goblins? yes or no?[/FONT][/COLOR][/U][/B][/I][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [I][B][U][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]if yes, HOW DO I FIX IT!?[/FONT][/COLOR][/U][/B][/I][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]I.E. "reduce the Int bonus of race X, and maybe add a racial bonus to Z, maybe something like "*insert racial bonus here*". That should even things up"[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][FONT=Verdana]I need NUMBERS here people! If race X is over powered, TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT! do NOT just say "y3a da7 0n3s B4d, 0ki3 g'b!e Na0" actually [U]help [/U]me with the issue![/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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