Harliquinn wrote:
PCI_StatMonkey wrote:
that's nothing new, spanning back to the d20 days...
sometimes to get to the uber stuff, you have to take the "not so uber" stuff
<que's lady gaga's song "born this way>
I think this is a poor way to balance things. Requiring you take stuff you don't want, won't use and which doesn't fit with your character is heavy handed. It only results in all characters of a val bloodline being identical.
Not identical, but very similar. And... Isn't that perfectly reflective of the story? All val of a given bloodline manifest the same powers (with some minimal variation.) That's what makes them val of the same bloodline. Additionally, only the most powerful val (those with the strongest bloodlines) can manifest the most powerful abilities. Sounds like a story/rules match to me.
Argument #2... How many people have you heard talk about, "val'Broken"? People are complaining that vals are the most powerful race more often than not. They don't need the ability to skip bloodline powers that are not optimal for their characters. At least, not any more than they already have. All they have to do is pick one of two for most tiers. For the tiers that only have one... Well, the ability may not be optimal for your character, but it's not exactly worthless, now is it?
PCI_StatMonkey wrote:
where we are now
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All Bloodline Talents: In order to learn a Bloodline power, you must already know a bloodline power one tier lower or a number of bloodline powers whose total tiers equal the Tier of the new Bloodline Powers.
I'm not a fan. In most cases it's mathematically equivalent to allowing you to skip all the bloodline abilities that you don't like. At tiers 1-3, you take only your favorite bloodline talent and you can skip the tier 4 talent to get the tier 5. Or take a T1 and both T2 and you can skip the T3 and T4 talents to get the T5. I'm not a fan.
Scott