Denamort
2012-09-29, 10:21 AM
A friend of mine has a character concept for our next game, and I'm having trouble with what race would fit the idea. The character is the daugther of a celestial and an elf. The idea is that her celestial blood gives her the ability to channel divine power to obtain the following effects:
Fast Healing/Regeneration (This is suposed to be in effect all the time)
A sort of "Lay on Hands" or similar healing effect
A sort of "Smite Evil" attack or similar attack boosting effect.
Aside from this powers, the character is a melee combatant, most likely a Swordsage.
My current solution is to use one level of Cloistered Cleric (is there anything it can't do?:smallwink:)
Sacrifice one domain for Healing Devotion (that's both the Fast Healing and the "Lay on Hands") and get Pasion Domain (gives a sort of Smite).
My only problem with this solution is that the character is supossed to be really bad at magic (in fact, that's a central point to her story) and I want her powers to feel diferent from regular cleric powers. We can "pretend" those are racial traits, but any other cleric with those domains can do the exact same thing.
In addition, those abilities will probably not age well and in later levels the Cloistered Cleric will probably become a penalty rather than a benefit (since the character is supposed to be bad at magic it makes no sense that it uses the other benefits the Cleric provides, such as use of magic items. Again, I can hand wave that those abilites are manifestations of her Divine Powers, but I don't want her powers to feel just like those of a cleric).
So, I ask the Playground, is there any race that has all or most of this powers? If not, are there any rules to create a Homebrew race? What kind of fast healing/regeneration would be apropiate? FH 1 can be useful in level 3, but is useless by level 7. Smite and Lay on Hands are both weak abilties, but I'm not sure how to balance them. Would you give the race other powers?
I use LA buy-off, so even an LA of +2 won't be much of a problem. They'll start the campaing around lvl 10, so the character could start with level 8 an +0 LA at that moment (tough I wouldn't give any LA to a race with only those three abilties).
Fast Healing/Regeneration (This is suposed to be in effect all the time)
A sort of "Lay on Hands" or similar healing effect
A sort of "Smite Evil" attack or similar attack boosting effect.
Aside from this powers, the character is a melee combatant, most likely a Swordsage.
My current solution is to use one level of Cloistered Cleric (is there anything it can't do?:smallwink:)
Sacrifice one domain for Healing Devotion (that's both the Fast Healing and the "Lay on Hands") and get Pasion Domain (gives a sort of Smite).
My only problem with this solution is that the character is supossed to be really bad at magic (in fact, that's a central point to her story) and I want her powers to feel diferent from regular cleric powers. We can "pretend" those are racial traits, but any other cleric with those domains can do the exact same thing.
In addition, those abilities will probably not age well and in later levels the Cloistered Cleric will probably become a penalty rather than a benefit (since the character is supposed to be bad at magic it makes no sense that it uses the other benefits the Cleric provides, such as use of magic items. Again, I can hand wave that those abilites are manifestations of her Divine Powers, but I don't want her powers to feel just like those of a cleric).
So, I ask the Playground, is there any race that has all or most of this powers? If not, are there any rules to create a Homebrew race? What kind of fast healing/regeneration would be apropiate? FH 1 can be useful in level 3, but is useless by level 7. Smite and Lay on Hands are both weak abilties, but I'm not sure how to balance them. Would you give the race other powers?
I use LA buy-off, so even an LA of +2 won't be much of a problem. They'll start the campaing around lvl 10, so the character could start with level 8 an +0 LA at that moment (tough I wouldn't give any LA to a race with only those three abilties).