Fizban
2009-02-24, 08:31 AM
[Formerly "My Pokemans, Let Me Show You Them?"]
For those of you who don't know, the above meme is often paired with a pic of an astral construct, and that's what I'm here to talk about...kinda. Well I needed a snappy title anyway.
I love the idea of the astral construct tables, letting you create a custom monster at the drop of a hat, and they're even set up so players can use them in game with the power itself. They beat the heck out of the Animated Object, which scales in power too poorly to even consider, and barely takes the mutable abilities into account. What I'd like even more however, is of course, more options. Natural weapon substitutions, attacks, abilities, Su's and SLA's and so on. No cost swaps like changing 1 slam to 1 bie or 2 slams to 2 claws, and what about 1 bite to 2 weak claws? I'd also like an idea of how one would go about substituting other creature types for them. Undead is probably a fair swap, but for any other type you'd have to arbitrarily pick a con score.
I could probably do them myself, but since I tend to think like a player, I'd prefer it if someone came up with and checked them "on their own", which gives the that slight bit of mental wiggle room where I can say, "hey, I didn't come up with it, but these guys know what they're doing and say it's balanced!"
For those of you who don't know, the above meme is often paired with a pic of an astral construct, and that's what I'm here to talk about...kinda. Well I needed a snappy title anyway.
I love the idea of the astral construct tables, letting you create a custom monster at the drop of a hat, and they're even set up so players can use them in game with the power itself. They beat the heck out of the Animated Object, which scales in power too poorly to even consider, and barely takes the mutable abilities into account. What I'd like even more however, is of course, more options. Natural weapon substitutions, attacks, abilities, Su's and SLA's and so on. No cost swaps like changing 1 slam to 1 bie or 2 slams to 2 claws, and what about 1 bite to 2 weak claws? I'd also like an idea of how one would go about substituting other creature types for them. Undead is probably a fair swap, but for any other type you'd have to arbitrarily pick a con score.
I could probably do them myself, but since I tend to think like a player, I'd prefer it if someone came up with and checked them "on their own", which gives the that slight bit of mental wiggle room where I can say, "hey, I didn't come up with it, but these guys know what they're doing and say it's balanced!"