Twilightwyrm
2013-01-07, 03:32 AM
Hello playground, I was looking for some help designing a minor variant on and Silverbrow Human. It occurred to me, having read Dragon Magic's dragon-blooded races a number of times, that while Forestlord Half-Elves and Deepwyrm Half-Drow exist, Silverbrow Half-Elves do not. Now, for many this is not much of a loss: Half-Elves are, for understandable reasons, not a particularly popular choice of race (in 3.0 and 3.5 at least), but I figure such a variation deserves a mention, if only as a further precedent for creating such dragon-blooded variant races (an idea, which you might be able to tell, is of interest of me).
I am however, having difficulty deciding on what bonuses it should lose, what, if any, it should gain, in order to more closely resemble the other dragon-blooded races it is supposed to mirror. Specifically, Feather Fall, as a spell-like ability usable once per day, strikes me as much less powerful than Treewalk, and as such I'm not convinced the already racial feature strapped half-elf is in need of having as many of them lost to gain it as the Forestloard variant does. So, I could use some ideas and suggestions as to how this should look, because beyond perhaps losing the +2 to Gather Information, and gaining a +2 to Disguise instead, I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
I am however, having difficulty deciding on what bonuses it should lose, what, if any, it should gain, in order to more closely resemble the other dragon-blooded races it is supposed to mirror. Specifically, Feather Fall, as a spell-like ability usable once per day, strikes me as much less powerful than Treewalk, and as such I'm not convinced the already racial feature strapped half-elf is in need of having as many of them lost to gain it as the Forestloard variant does. So, I could use some ideas and suggestions as to how this should look, because beyond perhaps losing the +2 to Gather Information, and gaining a +2 to Disguise instead, I'm not quite sure how to proceed.