Development Plans for Blessed Lands

Added the Weather Susceptibility Flaw. With both it and the Weather Sensitivity I’m working off the limited information available in the mod “A Dance Amidst the Bones” mod. Not sure what else there is, but this is what I’ve been working with:

TN 10: The Black Wind, a brief squall identified by a strange purple hue and thick oily rain drops. Where this storm hits, the bones of any who have perished in the area rise up and strike out at the living (Any Hero who has played A2HP7 Words of the Seer will know this one automatically from experience).
TN 15: Red Snow, a snowstorm of bright blood-red snowflakes. Direct exposure to the snow is highly painful. The snow leaves behind a slick crimson residue for up to a day after the blizzard is complete.
TN 20: The Lament, a tragic song carried on the wind that only dwarves can hear. Those who hear it end up being drawn away from any non-dwarven traveling companions to follow the sound and are often lost, never to be seen again.
TN 25: Saluwé’s Caress, a relatively benign phenomenon of light rain that causes plants to grow rapidly, regardless of environment. After the rain subsides, the plants die quickly, but for a brief period of time a part of the Pricklespur, the Vastwood, or the Luphyx forest lives and thrives within the Blessed Lands.
TN 30: Chaos storms, so called for their effects as much as their inconsistencies. These storms come in many forms (rain, snow, fog, lightning storms), and produce many different effects. Their only commonality is that anyone who survives one comes out changed in blatant or subtle ways. Thankfully these storms are extremely rare, no more than one or two every year, and shelters of stone have proven a viable defense against them.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

Does it make more sense to move the discussions back to the boards from Dropbox? I’m fine to help transfer the info if that makes more sense.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

If the 4 pantheonistic spells I proposed are included with the deities listed, I think the remaining two spells should cover the following gods:

Beltine
Hurrian
Neroth
Sarish

Given the desire to make more unusual combinations my recommendations would be to pair Hurrian and Neroth & Beltine and Sarish.

For the Hurrian / Neroth combo, something like Undying Defense where the caster can reanimate fallen comrades to continue the fight past death. Rough idea is that the caster sacrifices wounds and stamina to restore the fallen and that as long as the spell is active, they cannot be healed. When the spell ends, they can be healed but are not regained automatically.

For Beltine and Sarish a spell that pulls on blood / stamina of the caster or perhaps adapted for another target that grants a form of blood to a spirit removing the incorporeal trait but granting Natural AR 3 or 4.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

For the Hurrian / Neroth combo, something like Undying Defense where the caster can reanimate fallen comrades to continue the fight past death. Rough idea is that the caster sacrifices wounds and stamina to restore the fallen and that as long as the spell is active, they cannot be healed. When the spell ends, they can be healed but are not regained automatically.

You’d have to modify the wording of the spell as “reanimate” implies they are undead, which is a rather permanent status. Also, the sacrifice of Wounds to keep people up seems a bit like a Sarishan thing (Blood Magic) to me, so I’m not 100% sold on it myself.

For Beltine and Sarish a spell that pulls on blood / stamina of the caster or perhaps adapted for another target that grants a form of blood to a spirit removing the incorporeal trait but granting Natural AR 3 or 4.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

This could be good. I can also see this as a good nerothian/Beltinian spell as Neroth is the God of the Body.

Same here. I’m swamped with my real work.

I’ll get to this as soon as I can.

Added a pass over the Forsaken background. It is still a work in progress (wrote it up just before leaving work), but posted what I have to see if people think I’m going in the correct area with this. The talent I wrote up seems more like a flaw to me and I’d appreciate feedback.

Okay, so I’m trying to catch up where I can and I think that because I missed the online meeting a couple weeks ago, I’m out of the loop. Apparently we’re making updates to files in the DropBox folder, “Blessed Lands Rules Project” instead of posting all this stuff to this forum. And I think that a lot of this was covered in discussion at the meeting. We appear to be submitting original ideas for Talents, Spells, Backgrounds, etc? Am I correct so far? And am I missing anything important?

Scott
p.s. Sorry for needing the hand-holding.