WunSukong
2015-04-28, 12:28 PM
Because Monk of the Four Elements just doesn't cut it.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/222/b/d/Male_Waterbender_by_GreenifyME.png
I am not excessively skilled using these forums so I have opted to make this a google doc and share the link here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vHtkNi07Wk0ZySeXyXz5tPsyvJMftEBP4lf4OtF0n sE&authuser=0).
However, I would like to explain my pet-project and what I've done here.
The Monk of the Four Elements immediately appealed to my fantasy of an Avatar-like bender character and I knew I had to play one. However, having to share resources between what made you a monk and what made you a bender, as well as the steep prices of each of the abilities was a huge discouragement to me.
As I looked for ideas and options to home-brew the Way of the Four Elements and make it more balanced but also more appealing, I found that the Warlock had much of what I was looking for. Thus, my re-fluff and minor rebalance of the Warlock to make him a full-fledged Waterbender.
I did change some things around in terms of archetypes abilities and so on, but tried to keep abilities generally equivalent to pre-existent ones whether in the class or in the game. Some abilities are very monk-like, as are the skill options for the class. I only home-brewed the Pact of the Blade and a single Archetype, as I didn't feel the other pacts were Waterbender material, or at least not the Waterbender I was looking to play.
I think the most difficult aspect was changing all of the spell damage types. I tried to provide guidelines for how some spells could be maintained in their corresponding damage type, but some spells just didn't fit a water bender at all. In this case, a lot of imagination is required, and though I went through most of them and was able to come up with a "water bending translation" I did not write them all down, both for allowing each DM or player to do it themselves and because time.
I would really appreciate any and all feedback with this project, as I am sure many of you have much more experience with home brewing than I do.
5e Waterbender (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xymIPEnIxzuThAAZkDrYKI7FOJTSbpCTlx4nWX7Qf-0/edit?usp=sharing)
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/222/b/d/Male_Waterbender_by_GreenifyME.png
I am not excessively skilled using these forums so I have opted to make this a google doc and share the link here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vHtkNi07Wk0ZySeXyXz5tPsyvJMftEBP4lf4OtF0n sE&authuser=0).
However, I would like to explain my pet-project and what I've done here.
The Monk of the Four Elements immediately appealed to my fantasy of an Avatar-like bender character and I knew I had to play one. However, having to share resources between what made you a monk and what made you a bender, as well as the steep prices of each of the abilities was a huge discouragement to me.
As I looked for ideas and options to home-brew the Way of the Four Elements and make it more balanced but also more appealing, I found that the Warlock had much of what I was looking for. Thus, my re-fluff and minor rebalance of the Warlock to make him a full-fledged Waterbender.
I did change some things around in terms of archetypes abilities and so on, but tried to keep abilities generally equivalent to pre-existent ones whether in the class or in the game. Some abilities are very monk-like, as are the skill options for the class. I only home-brewed the Pact of the Blade and a single Archetype, as I didn't feel the other pacts were Waterbender material, or at least not the Waterbender I was looking to play.
I think the most difficult aspect was changing all of the spell damage types. I tried to provide guidelines for how some spells could be maintained in their corresponding damage type, but some spells just didn't fit a water bender at all. In this case, a lot of imagination is required, and though I went through most of them and was able to come up with a "water bending translation" I did not write them all down, both for allowing each DM or player to do it themselves and because time.
I would really appreciate any and all feedback with this project, as I am sure many of you have much more experience with home brewing than I do.
5e Waterbender (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xymIPEnIxzuThAAZkDrYKI7FOJTSbpCTlx4nWX7Qf-0/edit?usp=sharing)