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===Totem Spirit=== | ===Totem Spirit=== | ||
* '''Dragon Turtle:''' While you're raging, you gain the Dragon Turtle's intimidating physical presence. Enemy movement through squares within your reach counts as difficult terrain. | * '''Dragon Turtle:''' While you're raging, you gain the Dragon Turtle's intimidating physical presence. Enemy movement through squares within your reach counts as difficult terrain. | ||
:: You adapting this from something? It's not sexy, but when I think turtle I think AC bonus? | |||
===Aspect of the Beast=== | ===Aspect of the Beast=== | ||
* '''Dragon Turtle:''' You gain the amphibious quality and a swim speed equal to your running speed, if you don't already have them. You also gain momentum: as long as you have moved at least twenty feet this turn, any Athletics check made until the beginning of your next turn will have advantage. | * '''Dragon Turtle:''' You gain the amphibious quality and a swim speed equal to your running speed, if you don't already have them. You also gain momentum: as long as you have moved at least twenty feet this turn, any Athletics check made until the beginning of your next turn will have advantage. | ||
:: I'm here for swim speed. When I think turtle I don't think "very athletic and maneuverable". I do, though, think "explodes out of a lake" - some sort of charge-forward mechanic? | |||
===Totemic Attunement=== | ===Totemic Attunement=== | ||
* '''Dragon Turtle:''' While raging, you gain a steam breath weapon. At the start of your rage, and in every you maintain your rage, you gain 2d6 into a breath weapon pool. You can spend any number of these dice to exhale scalding steam in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that cone must succeed at a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 + proficiency bonus + constitution modifier), taking the allocated dice damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This dice pool regains 2d6 at the beginning of each of your turns. When your rage ends, any unspent dice in the pool dissipate immediately. [ed note: this is meant to be equivalent to recharge (5-6), starting uncharged, and could be replaced with that. I just like the dice pool mechanic more]. | * '''Dragon Turtle:''' While raging, you gain a steam breath weapon. At the start of your rage, and in every you maintain your rage, you gain 2d6 into a breath weapon pool. You can spend any number of these dice to exhale scalding steam in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that cone must succeed at a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 + proficiency bonus + constitution modifier) [Should this not be 8+PB+CON?], taking the allocated dice damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This dice pool regains 2d6 at the beginning of each of your turns. When your rage ends, any unspent dice in the pool dissipate immediately. [ed note: this is meant to be equivalent to recharge (5-6), starting uncharged, and could be replaced with that. I just like the dice pool mechanic more]. | ||
:: I remember the post on discord about this, and I know this will never actually see PC play, but moved to 5e to avoid tracking things and mechanics like this. (Even moreso in a primarily NPC class!) Is there any reason this wouldn't be a lot better at the table as a once per rage action, perhaps one that levels up based on barb level? Breath Weapon was absolutely my first though, too - how could it not be - but I continue to like 5e for its relatively straightforward design decisions. Or, if you want a pool mechanic, give them a set pool based on barb level and let them spend any number of them at once as an action also seems a lot more straightforward take on the same idea. | |||
===Design notes=== | ===Design notes=== | ||
* Damage on the breath weapon is in comparison to the regular attack, which would generally be 4d6 + 10 + other bonuses. This works out to less than half of that per-turn, but in an area and burstier. | * Damage on the breath weapon is in comparison to the regular attack, which would generally be 4d6 + 10 + other bonuses. This works out to less than half of that per-turn, but in an area and burstier. | ||
:: Here for the breath weapon, but a 30' cone seems like a LOT of squares worth of elemental damage. Where are you getting that avg 24 from? | |||
** Starting uncharged here is probably a mistake, d&d fights aren't generally designed to last more than three turns and the point of rage is to drop this big ball of RARR into the combat anyway. | ** Starting uncharged here is probably a mistake, d&d fights aren't generally designed to last more than three turns and the point of rage is to drop this big ball of RARR into the combat anyway. | ||
* Re aspect of the beast, aquatic-themed abilities are always niche, but maybe this will never be used by a PC anyway. That said, the latter part of this is an attempt to come up with something more general, still unique, but also mostly affecting the non-combat pillars like the other Aspects. | * Re aspect of the beast, aquatic-themed abilities are always niche, but maybe this will never be used by a PC anyway. That said, the latter part of this is an attempt to come up with something more general, still unique, but also mostly affecting the non-combat pillars like the other Aspects. | ||
* The totem spirit ability seemed to be the simplest physically intimidating ability that was also unique enough not to step on ''Bear'''s toes. Other ideas were: | * The totem spirit ability seemed to be the simplest physically intimidating ability that was also unique enough not to step on ''Bear'''s toes. Other ideas were: | ||
** Shove attack ''a la'' the dragon turtle entry, seemed like it was either counterproductive (just shove) or too powerful (shove plus prone) | ** Shove attack ''a la'' the dragon turtle entry, seemed like it was either counterproductive (just shove) or too powerful (shove plus prone) | ||
: +1 charge bonus? Perhaps double down on the "turtle up" theme and some sort of magic defense? | |||
** Armor bonus (stepped on ''bear'' and also super-hard to dial in between "not worth it" and "holy shit this is the best") | ** Armor bonus (stepped on ''bear'' and also super-hard to dial in between "not worth it" and "holy shit this is the best") | ||
: maybe, but this is also the most obvious thought to me. | |||