Please Help Create a Bird-Person Template

Nereidalbel · 12-09-2015, 01:28 PM

Cardiac Stress means your species will end up going extinct, due to a tendency to fall out of the sky at random. Go with Costs FP instead, to represent muscle strain. Cardiac Stress just to lift 29lbs means that any serious construction is impossible, armor can't be a thing, and my suspension of disbelief is shattered with such a race dying off all the time.

Giving their beak Piercing damage as a Striker or Natural Weapon would be fitting, if you're going with the bird-face thing.

Raekai · 12-09-2015, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Cardiac Stress means your species will end up going extinct, due to a tendency to fall out of the sky at random. Go with Costs FP instead, to represent muscle strain. Cardiac Stress just to lift 29lbs means that any serious construction is impossible, armor can't be a thing, and my suspension of disbelief is shattered with such a race dying off all the time.

Giving their beak Piercing damage as a Striker or Natural Weapon would be fitting, if you're going with the bird-face thing.

I'll go with Costs Fatigue, then! That makes sense. And I totally forgot about the bird-face thing. They actually have a beak nose and a human-ish mouth. So, I'll go ahead and add that.

Gold & Appel Inc · 12-10-2015, 06:26 AM

Lifting ST is significantly cheaper than that, and probably shouldn't have Costs FP if Flight does. I probably wouldn't use Costs FP on Flight either, unless you really want them on the ground the vast majority of the time. Winged Flight is pretty tiring as it is, about as bad as non-stop sprinting.

This is just a house rule, but I personally avoid using build traits like Skinny on racial templates. Skinny relative to what? What about a Bird Person who is Skinnier than other Bird People? I'd give them higher ST and low HP to represent the fragile build but ability to fly, and leave Skinny, Fat, etc to individual characters.

12-09-2015, 01:28 PM	#1
Nereidalbel Join Date: May 2013 Location: Ellicott City, MD	Re: Please Help Create a Bird-Person Template Cardiac Stress means your species will end up going extinct, due to a tendency to fall out of the sky at random. Go with Costs FP instead, to represent muscle strain. Cardiac Stress just to lift 29lbs means that any serious construction is impossible, armor can't be a thing, and my suspension of disbelief is shattered with such a race dying off all the time. Giving their beak Piercing damage as a Striker or Natural Weapon would be fitting, if you're going with the bird-face thing.

12-10-2015, 06:26 AM	#3
Gold & Appel Inc Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: One Mile Up	Re: Please Help Create a Bird-Person Template Lifting ST is significantly cheaper than that, and probably shouldn't have Costs FP if Flight does. I probably wouldn't use Costs FP on Flight either, unless you really want them on the ground the vast majority of the time. Winged Flight is pretty tiring as it is, about as bad as non-stop sprinting. This is just a house rule, but I personally avoid using build traits like Skinny on racial templates. Skinny relative to what? What about a Bird Person who is Skinnier than other Bird People? I'd give them higher ST and low HP to represent the fragile build but ability to fly, and leave Skinny, Fat, etc to individual characters.