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2021-04-13, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-14, 01:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I think the Necromental is +0 at best, I don't know what role it can fill with out taking a hit to competency in some aspect
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2021-04-16, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Asterisk definitely, but only affecting elementals (a fairly uncommon creature type), taking days, and possibly not being able to control them makes this the least impressive spawn ability that can kill commoners more than half of the time.
For a cherry on top, they get Great Fortitude. Hey, bonus feats are bonus feats.
Don't meldshapers require Constitution? And don't undead meldshapers need a feat tax?
I'm going to give the Necromental +0*. It has some serious drawbacks, but enough perks that you aren't going to be completely crippled by taking it. Making a build that benefits from being a necromental would be tricky, but I have no doubt it's possible.
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2021-04-16, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I'll concur with +0*.
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2021-04-16, 01:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Gotta admit I'm surprised by this one. Necromental gets +0*. Necropolitan is up next. That ought to be fun.
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2021-04-16, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-04-16, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Necropolitan
A Necropolitan Human
Acquired or Inherited: Acquired
Applied To: Any Humanoid or Monstrous Humanoid
Size & Type: Size Unchanged, Type becomes Undead (Augmented)
Space/Reach: Unchanged
Hit Dice: Increase to D12
Speed: Unchanged
Ability Scores: Str +0, Dex +0, Con -, Int +0, Wis +0, Cha +0 - Net +0, no penalties
Armor Class: Unchanged
Skills: Unchanged
CR: Unchanged
WotC LA: +0 (see text)
Our LA: +0
The quintessential "I'm undead now" template. Elegant in its simplicity, because it does almost nothing else. You get +2 turn resistance, a +2 profane bonus to saves against the Control Undead spell, and you retain the ability to heal HP and ability damage as if you were still alive. (Though the Heal skill still doesn't work on you.)
Instead of LA, WotC decided the price of this template should be 3,000gp, as well as a level and 1,000 XP lost. If either or both of these costs would reduce you to 0 XP or less, you are destroyed, crumble to dust, and can't be raised by any means. Since losing a level puts you at the XP midpoint of your new lower level, and that part happens before the 1k XP, you have to be at least level 3 to become a Necropolitan. You then become level 2 with nothing more than the thousand XP you need to stay there. Oddly, the XP loss notes that it can make you lose another level; but this isn't actually possible because of the aforementioned "midpoint of your new lower level" rule.
If you just want to be undead without any fancy tricks or big drawbacks, this is probably the simplest way to go about it. ...Well, out of character at least. In character, the Ritual of Crucimigration (Yes, a portmanteau of crucifixion and immigration.) is 24 hours of excruciating pain described as feeling like molten metal in your veins.Last edited by Debatra; 2021-04-21 at 12:52 AM.
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2021-04-16, 03:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Personal opinion on this one, and I expect disagreement, but necropolition is the go to trick for undead type and immunities in most optimization. I think instead of the xp cost and gold cost, an LA of +1 might be worth considering. It takes it from a no brainer choice for any build that likes being undead and forces you to at least think about it.
Assuming buy off it would only be a bit more expensive XP wise, although we don't assume that for the purpose of this thread.
Also I wish they picked a cooler name, necropolition makes me think of undead ice cream... yuck!
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2021-04-16, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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In your experience, how common is it in actual play? It's very common in theory craft and suggested builds, but how many times have you seen it in actual use?
I don't have much experience actually playing with LM material, so I can't know for sure, but I have a feeling the current price is a more serious deterent in actual play than it is in, say, Iron Chef. What do you think?
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2021-04-16, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I don't even really see LA +1 as all that controversial. The template already explicitly sets you back a level in total XP when you take it, plus a little bit extra. It's effectively LA +1 already, but in such a way that normally the "XP Is A River" phenomenon covers it up instead of LA buyoff.
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2021-04-16, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Necropolitan is an interesting one.
An argument could be made that undead immunities, with no drawbacks* other than undead status itself, are worthy of a +1.
Type change to undead, d12 HD, +2 save vs. control undead, +2 turn resistance, and the ability to heal "naturally" over time like a living creature (which most undead don't get).
The cost of which is normal undead stuff (loss of Con etc.), *and the loss of 1 level plus additional loss of 1000xp (and 3000gp).
I think this is one where WotC got the LA right: I vote LA +0. It's a strong +0, especially in the right build (Wizard etc.), but I can live with that.Last edited by Thurbane; 2021-04-16 at 04:42 PM.
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2021-04-16, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-16, 05:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Necropolitan always makes me wish there was a playable Deathless (I don't count Deathless Watcher at LA +5 or Risen Martyr as playable). I mean, you can file the serial numbers off Necropolitan, but an official one would have been nice.
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2021-04-16, 06:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I did see a game with a Necropolitan in once. Pretty minmaxed dude.
LA +1 seems fine for me too. It no-sells such a huge pile of dangers.VC XV, The horsemen are drawing nearer: The Alien and the Omen (part 1 and part 2).
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2021-04-16, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-04-16, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
With the entry method given? It's +0. A decent +0, especially if you can build for it ahead of time (like dumping Con).
If it was a template you took, I still don't think it's +1.
Getting blasted out of existence by a cleric boss (Sun), or dominated - which might be worse (evil turner), or disabled (any turner) is pretty serious stuff. And it'll happen 50% of the time if you meet one, without a lot you can do about it. (assumption, a boss will be 2 levels higher than you, so your +2 bonus is a wash. And any extra turning resistance you get can be countered by turning boosters)
Sure, you get a few immunities. But no stats.
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2021-04-16, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
The cost in the book is a fair one. Given the lost xp, I say +0.
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2021-04-16, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-16, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
This is weird because if you already got it during character creation it’s not much of a downside but it is if you have to take that into count.
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2021-04-16, 11:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-16, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I mean, with the "XP is a river" thing it probably wouldn't be too crippling if the game is long enough? The gold at least is much less of an issue at higher levels, though it takes quite a while for it to become pocket change.
Incidentally, most Necropolitans are going to be caster-types right?Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2021-04-17, 03:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I can agree to LA +0 if we're assuming the GP/XP cost stays in place. But I'm of the opinion that since we're redoing the cost for things, it makes sense for this to be an LA +1 template instead of gp/xp cost to keep things uniform.
If I were making slight changes all around the edition, I'd take away the Necropolitan costs and make it an LA +1 template. My reasoning is that "XP Is A River" phenomenon will eventually catch you up to your allies, effectively meaning you get to have the equivalent of LA buyoff even in a game where buyoff isn't allowed. Changing it to purely LA as the cost makes it uniform.Last edited by AvatarVecna; 2021-04-17 at 03:52 AM.
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2021-04-17, 04:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-17, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I fwel like we need a ruling: are we adding LA to the established cost of the ritual, or are we replacing the ritual with LA?
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2021-04-17, 07:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I'm pretty sure that Avatar_Vecna and Thurbane are both proposing the latter. Either way, there's got to be something noted about the template however we go, because the old way needs you to dock a level and 1k XP as well as 3k gold, and the new way sets you at +1 with no actual way to effectively buy that off(as we do not consider those rules here).
Incidentally, how long would it take for "XP is a river" to catch you up to the rest of the players, and how much of an impact would it have then? I'm pretty sure being undead never becomes useless, but at high level the benefits can often be replicated with gold, magic, and/or class features while the costs are a bit harder to mitigate. There's a reason a lot of high-level undead either have Unholy Toughness or ridiculous HD bloat.Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Pretty quickly, actually. You gain approximately 30% more XP for facing the same threats as someone a level higher than you, so whilst you'll always be behind, you'll catch up soon enough.
I agree that if this is applied as a template without the XP loss, this is an easy LA +1.
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2021-04-17, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
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2021-04-17, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
Assuming we keep the ritual as is, I favor a +0 LA.
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2021-04-17, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LA Assignment Thread X: New Year, New Management, Same Old Unplayable Monsters
I've seen Necropolitan in play several times, both as an LA +0 template with the ritual costs enforced, and an LA +1 template with the ritual costs waived. I think it works well both ways, but the ritual cost and LA cost aren't always equivalent to one another. Some players I've played with are more than willing to pay the ritual cost, because it's only a temporary lag; while others really can't stand the level loss. In gestalt, it's especially weird, because the ritual costs make you lose both "sides" of one level, which effectively means the template doesn't actually take up a permanent space in your build; but if you instead take it as LA +1, it's a permanent loss of one "side" of one level, but your WBL is still intact and you have a slightly better situation at startup.
I don't really like the weirdness of the ritual, so I personally prefer to assess LA +1 and ignore the ritual costs. But I think I can get behind Thurbane's reasoning: I'll vote LA +0 for the necropolitan template, with ritual costs enforced per RAW.