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Boss Frost
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Familiar - The Awakened
"Sometimes a curse can be a blessing."
Gods are fickle... mortals even more so. With the large amount of powerful beings in the world, some of them lose the ability to care for those weaker than they... or no longer want to. These powerful beings, though capable of wiping an annoyance right out of existence, sometimes choose to curse these annoyances... Sometimes, these curses never come off.
The 'Curse of Familiarity' is one of these curses. Named after the small animals that accompany most magic-users, the spell turns one person into a small, harmless animal... permanently. Though they keep their mind, their body is that of an animal... they loose the ability to speak, though they understand. Most under the curse die. Some go mad, becoming the beasts in mind they are in body. Some morph further, into monsters.
A rare few find each other, and - unable to abolish the curse - seek to do something good with their new bodies. Such came about the Awakened - a group of these sentient animals who've banded together in an attempt to rise into a more suitable position in the world... finding their worth through adventuring.
Hiding in the depths of the Forest of Betrayals, in the ruins of the abandoned temple of five demigods who challenged the gods and were also turned into animals, they move to become stronger... Possibly aided by these five grand beasts.
Rules:
This will be a 3.5 D&D game, though the player races are no longer "Human, Elf, Dwarf, etc." The players are now in the form of feral animals, under the permanent curse of a 'Baleful Polymorph'.
-Choose one Animal, Dire Animal, or Magical Beast of CR 1 or less. Also playable are people turned into pseudodragons.
-Raise it's Mental scores (Int, Wis, Cha) to 8, and apply a 22 point buy to the resulting creature.
-You do not get the racial hit die of the resulting creature, or the skills. You do, however, get the creature's listed feats as bonus feats.
-You may have 1 level in a class.
-Come up with a backstory! Reveal who (and why!) you were cursed. The game's more about struggling with your new bodies and roleplay anyway!
(If you have questions, have never played D&D before but think this is a cool idea, you can PM myself or one of the other D&D players - Vay, Neko Archy, or The Never There are good choices, and we'll probably ease you through a tutorial.)
The 'Curse of Familiarity' is one of these curses. Named after the small animals that accompany most magic-users, the spell turns one person into a small, harmless animal... permanently. Though they keep their mind, their body is that of an animal... they loose the ability to speak, though they understand. Most under the curse die. Some go mad, becoming the beasts in mind they are in body. Some morph further, into monsters.
A rare few find each other, and - unable to abolish the curse - seek to do something good with their new bodies. Such came about the Awakened - a group of these sentient animals who've banded together in an attempt to rise into a more suitable position in the world... finding their worth through adventuring.
Hiding in the depths of the Forest of Betrayals, in the ruins of the abandoned temple of five demigods who challenged the gods and were also turned into animals, they move to become stronger... Possibly aided by these five grand beasts.
Rules:
This will be a 3.5 D&D game, though the player races are no longer "Human, Elf, Dwarf, etc." The players are now in the form of feral animals, under the permanent curse of a 'Baleful Polymorph'.
-Choose one Animal, Dire Animal, or Magical Beast of CR 1 or less. Also playable are people turned into pseudodragons.
-Raise it's Mental scores (Int, Wis, Cha) to 8, and apply a 22 point buy to the resulting creature.
-You do not get the racial hit die of the resulting creature, or the skills. You do, however, get the creature's listed feats as bonus feats.
-You may have 1 level in a class.
-Come up with a backstory! Reveal who (and why!) you were cursed. The game's more about struggling with your new bodies and roleplay anyway!
(If you have questions, have never played D&D before but think this is a cool idea, you can PM myself or one of the other D&D players - Vay, Neko Archy, or The Never There are good choices, and we'll probably ease you through a tutorial.)