Primal Fury
2009-08-26, 12:53 PM
Since I loved the Moonspeaker PrC so much, I figured I'd toy with the adaptation metioned near the end of it's entry: Namely the idea of a lycanthrope moonspeaker. For those of you who don't know, the Moonspeaker is a prestige class that is only available to shifters who practice divine magic (i.e. druids, clerics, high-level rangers, favored souls etc.) and, in my opinion, one of the only PrC's out there that is filled with awesome from start to finish. And before I forget, it's in Races of Eberron.
Since part of the moonspeaker's focus is on the honing of their shifting abilities, I figure lycan's would function in much the same way, gaining bonuses to their human form based on their animal and hybrid forms. But this brings up a problem: While it does improve their human form, it decreases the usefulness of their animal and hybrid forms. Should they get their entire attirbute bonus or only a portion of it.
Another thing I was wondering about is the acquisition of shifter feats. Technically speaking, lycan's already have all the shifter traits attributed to their chosen animal (with the exception of... that one trait that increases the users wisdom). Would the creation of custom feats be needed to create the same effect? (I hardly think that, with the stuff shifters have, their progenitors, who are supposedly better at it, should have so little shapeshifting refinement abilities.)
My final thought is the capstone. I was thinking of allowing the final level to upgrade the lycan's template to "Lord" status (their animal form becomes a dire version of whatever animal they first chose, or possibly horrid if things had gone that far already). Now I don't no way, but the 13th moon of Eberron is aligned with evil for some reason, possibly because of it's connection to Xoriat (my knowledge of this particular settings lore is a bit shakey.) But I was thinking this moon could serve it's purpose as the capstone for fluff reasons.
What are y'all's thoughts on this here idea? :smallsmile:
Since part of the moonspeaker's focus is on the honing of their shifting abilities, I figure lycan's would function in much the same way, gaining bonuses to their human form based on their animal and hybrid forms. But this brings up a problem: While it does improve their human form, it decreases the usefulness of their animal and hybrid forms. Should they get their entire attirbute bonus or only a portion of it.
Another thing I was wondering about is the acquisition of shifter feats. Technically speaking, lycan's already have all the shifter traits attributed to their chosen animal (with the exception of... that one trait that increases the users wisdom). Would the creation of custom feats be needed to create the same effect? (I hardly think that, with the stuff shifters have, their progenitors, who are supposedly better at it, should have so little shapeshifting refinement abilities.)
My final thought is the capstone. I was thinking of allowing the final level to upgrade the lycan's template to "Lord" status (their animal form becomes a dire version of whatever animal they first chose, or possibly horrid if things had gone that far already). Now I don't no way, but the 13th moon of Eberron is aligned with evil for some reason, possibly because of it's connection to Xoriat (my knowledge of this particular settings lore is a bit shakey.) But I was thinking this moon could serve it's purpose as the capstone for fluff reasons.
What are y'all's thoughts on this here idea? :smallsmile: