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Festy_Dog said:
You know I didn't know that this entire time? Sounds like Diedrik gets another feat and some more skill points. :D
Damn--that's because it is actually wrong :o I said that while distracted :o :o :heh:

Altanians--they're the ones who get that ;)
 

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Youch.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Rowaini don't have much in the way of racial features then. Altanians have pretty huge stat bonuses, bonus feat and skills, -and- free Spellcasting Prodigy feat (which no one else can take).

Rowaini get similar, decent stat bonuses, a bonus to a skill that rarely gets much use in games, and a magic item that doesn't cost gold, but costs a pretty huge amount of exp for its effect.

Am I missing something?
 

Shayuri said:
Youch.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Rowaini don't have much in the way of racial features then. Altanians have pretty huge stat bonuses, bonus feat and skills, -and- free Spellcasting Prodigy feat (which no one else can take).

Rowaini get similar, decent stat bonuses, a bonus to a skill that rarely gets much use in games, and a magic item that doesn't cost gold, but costs a pretty huge amount of exp for its effect.

Am I missing something?
The Rowaini are fairly standard--compare to Nymphs (Dazzling Beauty, which at best gives a -1 to Spot and most people rarely remember to use, Symbiosis, which is more of a flavour/eating thing, and +2 to two skills), Dolathi (alternate forms and shifting stats), Larakese (ancestor spirit and ancestral weapon), etc. The benefits of the Legendary Item and masterpiece items are both nontrivial. That said, I do believe that I have double-charged for the example items--I used the formula for if the character has two legendary items. This is what I get for typing things at 3:00 AM.
 
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Doop. I apologize for the tone there...it was just a surprise.

You've been very helpful in responding to all my queries and I appreciate that greatly.

Perhaps, when it's not 3:00am, we can work out the final details of said item/items and make sure all the crunch is done. By then I should have some background and backstory ready to review too. :)
 

Shayuri said:
Doop. I apologize for the tone there...it was just a surprise.

You've been very helpful in responding to all my queries and I appreciate that greatly.

Perhaps, when it's not 3:00am, we can work out the final details of said item/items and make sure all the crunch is done. By then I should have some background and backstory ready to review too. :)
No problem. If anything, I wouldn't say that the Rowaini were weak--I'd say that the Altanians were particularly strong at spellcasting. It's intentional--the Altanians are a bit unusual for all the worlds in that every single member of the race is gestalted with Sorcerer in some way, down to lowliest Commoner/Sorcerer. In that sense, the Altanians actually have some of what should be class features stuck in their racial features. Since the prodigy feat must be used for an Altanian class, it all balances out in the end (compare the only two double-arcanish classes: Arcanist and Dragonlord).

I think I'm doing the math right now. What's 6000 divided by 10? 600 right?
 


Shayuri said:
Yup!

Though if it's possible to have two items, it might be worth the cost. :)
Starting at level 6, and each 5 levels thereafter, it is possible to have more than one legendary item (as the character becomes legendary enough that tales and stories are told of all of her most notorious possessions). This requires significant expenditures, though. Each item is capped as if you were 5 levels lower than before (so at level 6, you count as level 1 for the second item) and costs twice as much XP. So a 16th-level Rowaini could have one full-powered Legendary Item, one at double-cost capped as if she is level 11, one at quadruple cost capped as if she is level 6, and another at octuple-cost capped as if she is level 1.
 


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