Talk:Mahina's Character Sheet

Druids are not the uber-hierarchical folks they are in other campaign settings, so there is no unified "druidic" language. They are, however, the only class able to learn the language of small mammals (sylvan), so I took the liberty of making the substitution. This is how Trav is able to Rat-a-chat-chat. -gm

Yeah, just something I hadn't cleaned-up yet, but cool about Sylvan alternative. Hero Lab made it by default and I didn't tweak it yet. I need to get domain stuff listed and her companion on here, too. -Mattie

Is the armor Hide or Studded Leather? absalom 13:45, 12 May 2011 (EDT)

Hide armor is what she wants. -Mattie

Also: Dazed flaw, I assume, is what is making up for her having a domain as a druid? -gm

Yeah, this is for the Madness Domain bonus-- she will role-play the madness, too, but I wanted a tangible in-game drawback for something so outside the norm. Flaws are tough to balance... I'm also tempted to tweak noncombatant to be a little more tangible for the casters, too... Like tiny minus to init [battle hesistant] or something added to it. I dunno, seems like an obvious caster flaw, not sure which mage wouldn't take it. -Mattie

I think you mean "her role playing will drive everyone else mad." And, a mage who plans on making touch attacks would not take it, for example, nor would one planning on using Tenser's Transformation, Polymorph, shape change, or any other CasterTank spells. I like to compare flaws to the feats they are flip-siding. In this case, noncombatant is reversing the polarity of Weapon Focus and, by any measurement, the flaw is far more punishing than the feat it is imitating. (-2 penalty with all melee attacks as compared with +1 bonus with one specific weapon). Really, I just look at flaws as sort of anti-feats and balance them accordingly. Whatever the penalty that goes with the feat should be about twice as punishing as the equivalent feat is rewarding. I don't see any problem with flaws being any more of an "obvious" choice than feats, especially since there's 1/10th as many of the former than the latter. absalom 14:59, 12 May 2011 (EDT)