Flubberdoop Lore Ideas
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RuffianDragon
Scholar
Item Recall doesn't stick to a person so they COULD use it to summon something...or with the whole "No Activating MIs" it just wouldn't work.
If they're Race Changing to this new race, AND this new race couldn't use rituals that targeted a spirit (like SLink and SLock do), then yes, those Linked items would fall off and the Locked items would disappear forever.
Or we could write in exceptions. The brand new uber-change scroll itself could state that those SLocked items would just fall off and immediately stick to the next person who touched them and be locked to them instead. Or those two specific rituals and nothing else could suffer a Destroy Magic ritual effect, causing the items to be free to pass around.
If they're Race Changing to this new race, AND this new race couldn't use rituals that targeted a spirit (like SLink and SLock do), then yes, those Linked items would fall off and the Locked items would disappear forever.
Or we could write in exceptions. The brand new uber-change scroll itself could state that those SLocked items would just fall off and immediately stick to the next person who touched them and be locked to them instead. Or those two specific rituals and nothing else could suffer a Destroy Magic ritual effect, causing the items to be free to pass around.
Avaran
Baron
Alavatar said:
The OP from that thread had this to say:
So things like Regen and CSS would work, as would Spirit Link/Lock; so they'd still be able to "use" their spirit, just not a physical object that is a Magic Item.
I like Lauren's idea for production. Imagine if necromantic potions gave a sweeter, better high, maybe even having an addictive quality like Euphoria does for other races. If you've ever seen Being Human, I'm thinking of the difference between "bagged" blood versus drinking from a live person; in the mythos of that show, there is a very different taste and a very different high (though sustainable, not ideal and the other is excessively tempting).
RuffianDragon
Scholar
phedre said:
100% True. But there's nothing preventing writing exceptions to the current rules especially if we're going to add something like a brand new race to the equation.
Kantil said:
I simply took it one step further and took "No ritual magic at all" as a possibility for their disadvantages.
mikestrauss
Squire
Mildly on topic....
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but Frisco raises a good point with his racial flavor. If you have a race of creatures that can't use magic items at all, then they won't try to acquire them. And, if they won't try to acquire them, then the treasure is getting disbursed across a smaller segment of the game, which means every other player is getting a higher number of magic items (over time). So, either the treasure policy needs to be changed to essentially exclude Flubberdoop Starchild players from the calculation (or at least lower the calculation from them) or this race needs something that "encourages" it to collect magic items in the normal proportion that other characters do.
-MS
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but Frisco raises a good point with his racial flavor. If you have a race of creatures that can't use magic items at all, then they won't try to acquire them. And, if they won't try to acquire them, then the treasure is getting disbursed across a smaller segment of the game, which means every other player is getting a higher number of magic items (over time). So, either the treasure policy needs to be changed to essentially exclude Flubberdoop Starchild players from the calculation (or at least lower the calculation from them) or this race needs something that "encourages" it to collect magic items in the normal proportion that other characters do.
-MS
Undrask
Scholar
Keep thine rules in that other thread, this is a place for pictures of Richard Simons and talking about necro pots giving Flubberdoops Euphoria!
I like the idea of magic items giving effects that the FLUBBERDOOP an OOG disadvantage but something they could potentially be attracted to IG. So Flubberdoops that adventure might totally avoid MIs so they don't become addicted, or they might hoard them to fuel their addiction. It can go either way.
I feel like Dave's idea for the bubble makes SENSE but it also doesn't allow a lot of room for interesting RP because there's nothing else to it. Can you think of how the bubble idea couldhave some interesting RP side effects?
I like the idea of magic items giving effects that the FLUBBERDOOP an OOG disadvantage but something they could potentially be attracted to IG. So Flubberdoops that adventure might totally avoid MIs so they don't become addicted, or they might hoard them to fuel their addiction. It can go either way.
I feel like Dave's idea for the bubble makes SENSE but it also doesn't allow a lot of room for interesting RP because there's nothing else to it. Can you think of how the bubble idea couldhave some interesting RP side effects?
That's tough, I know a couple campaigns that already have monsters with that explanation. There was a PC that was turning into one in a plot that crossed a couple chapters, and she *certainly* wasn't as adorable and huggable as the flubberdoops are.
Maybe make them an echo of a previous time, or of another plane?
Maybe make them an echo of a previous time, or of another plane?
Draven
Count
Make them evolved, spirit-given constructs, literally built from magic, that have obtained a metabolism allowing them to experience life as living creatures. This new life has them hungry to experience emotions, of which they were once deprived, to the fullest, which is an ambition that has pushed many of them into a lifestyle of adventure.
Their evolution or transformation has left them with the ability to tap into items of magical power, which they can use to fuel their racial powers, based upon a combination of their own development (read: level) and the power of the rituals they drain (read: difficulty level or levels).
Their evolution or transformation has left them with the ability to tap into items of magical power, which they can use to fuel their racial powers, based upon a combination of their own development (read: level) and the power of the rituals they drain (read: difficulty level or levels).
