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Dimers
2011-03-09, 01:01 AM
A shardmind with Elan Heritage refluffed as a highly-altered human. Trade in the racial shard swarm power to gain an extra at-will attack like humans get. Can take shardmind feats unrelated to shard swarm and can't take human feats. Would you allow that, as a DM? Is it a fair tradeoff?

What about throwing in Elan Heritage for free at 1st level? The telepathy power overlaps anyway, and it's a feat anyone can take, but it seems a little 'over the top' somehow ...

Kurald Galain
2011-03-09, 04:37 AM
A shardmind with Elan Heritage refluffed as a highly-altered human. Trade in the racial shard swarm power to gain an extra at-will attack like humans get. Can take shardmind feats unrelated to shard swarm and can't take human feats. Would you allow that, as a DM? Is it a fair tradeoff?
I might disallow it on grounds of fluff. But in terms of crunch, Shard Swarm is a much more powerful ability than having yet another at-will (because the former will be used every combat, and the latter will come into play very rarely if ever).

A much better deal would be to grab Heroic Effort, the new 4.4 human racial ability.