Talk:Heart-Reachers (3.5e Race)

Immortal Blood

Mostly unkillable creatures? With that scary fast regeneration rate, they're about as indestructible as the Tarrasque. I don't think there's a LA able to be used with something like that. -- Eiji 21:44, 30 May 2008 (MDT)

I'm thinking that maybe the immortal blood would be better applied to an ageless effect, meaning that they do not age past adulthood and never die of old age. Ganteka 11:42, 31 May 2008 (MDT)

MAJOR REVAMP!!! Would someone test this? Ice Paul the III 7:24, 21 December 2008 (MDT)

The Revamp

Some clarification is required. So, basically, when I went through and made some modifications, it was for the purposes of making it more accessible to all players and campaign settings. As such, I removed language that was of the "always" or "never" variety in favor of "typically" or "rarely". Yeah, I also went through and reworded some things for smoother effect and fixed a few spelling errors to improve readability and coherence. So basically this brings me to the meat of my comment, the racial special abilities. In short, most of them don't make a whole lot of sense. But fear not, I have suggestions. Regeneration is kinda a big deal, especially for a LA 0 race. Perhaps renaming the ability from Regeneration to "Quick Healer", as to avoid confusion with that ability, which allows a whole lot more, and is very powerful (think trolls). Perhaps even changing the healing rate to 1 point an hour would be better, to keep it in the range of "convenience" and not "combat effective" style abilities. The Weak Scar thing really confuses me as well, does that mean that when their scar is targeted with a called shot, the armor class is lower? Also, typically, Natural Armor is worthy of LA, so be careful with that. I've never really liked called shots, so if you really want to keep the ability in, it is your call of course, but for simplicity, I recommend just trimming it out. The Heart Reach ability is ridiculously powerful (and should probably be a supernatural ability), its sorta like a really unstoppable scrying at the moment, with a limitless range and basically no game rule information on it. I really don't have a lot of suggestions for it at the moment, other than it needs to be reworked. Also, with the Deep Connection, something like that should be more of a Will save situation, against some kind of DC like 10 + HD of target + target's Intelligence modifier ( or other mental modifier that might work). In addition, the +2 to one and -2 to the other seems redundant. For simplicity, have it only affect the heart-reacher himself, since he's the one who had his mind messed with by probing into someone else's feelings and thoughts. So, closing statement: races are not supposed to be capitalized within sentences, and bug me again once you make the necessary changes. Keep at it. --Ganteka 19:31, 21 December 2008 (MST)

The Result

While I still think it needs to be polished down to perfectly meet with the no la, I'm preaty happy with the results, especialy the way I transformed the Heart-Reach ability. Thanks for the Help Gan, but you know needy paul, I'd like you to look over the results and give me some minor hints here and there.

Ice Paul the III 4:17 22 December 2008 (MST)