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I like cats; I like cats a lot, like, a lot a lot. (this is surely coming as a surprise to absolutely nobody, lol.) So cats, from tabbies to tigers, have a tendency to crop up in rpg stuff I write if I'm writing it for any real length of time --
But, hilariously, despite cat people being in at least two projects (one, admittedly, the unfinished "spacehack" here on this blog) and a few instances of folks who could have a feline other form here and there as well, there are no actual cat people in Lindwyrm (though there's the wise panther in Lindwyrm Lockbox, and in recent critters there's the clewe and the steelmender at least that I recall).
So what's an option for a cat person, for Lindwyrm or whatever? Hmm ...
How about:
- Felit: See in the dark; +1/lvl to tests involving athletics; 2-in-6 sense ghosts within 40'; unarmed damage half of weapon damage (claws)
What do felit look like? I don't know, you tell me -- I have my preferences (which can change with setting, lol), but it's not like I described the species options in Lockbox.
(maybe I'll do that in some other post some time, just for the giggles)
Can I add a few more other instances of felinity to this post? Let's see --
Pasht: Grey-coated cats the size of hunting hounds, with eyes like twin moons and glinting silver claws. Hunters of the dark.
2 HD, AC 13, +2 bite (1d3) or claws (1d4+1/1d4+1), ML 9, slash: if both claws hit, kick for 1d6 automatically; purify: claws deal double damage to shifters, demons and the dead; spellbreak, 1/4 actions
Tiger-Of-The-Sword: Sometimes an oath -- of binding, of fealty, of promise just that fervent -- calls forth a great burning beast of terrible majesty to witness it and hold it fast.
9 HD, AC 16, +9 bite (2d6) or claws (2d8/2d8), ML 12, mundane immune, 4-in-6 spell resist, ignore confinement, sword blessing: oathmaker receives +4 to an action in service to their oath, 1/month; sword's scourge: instant teleport to oathbreaker's location
And then, reaching ever higher --
* Ssefrrith, Queen Of The Sky
Great goddess, heavenly cat, whose patches are the clouds and whose spots are the stars, toy with the sun and the moon across the vault of the sky. Watch all below and send the rain, cool the land with the winds, rage tempests against those who raise violence against your people.
- Raise yourself up as I have raised myself up. Give hope -- more than empty words -- to those who need; have I not carried you in my own mouth, likewise, until you learned and walked? Defend your home and raise your people into light. -
But, hilariously, despite cat people being in at least two projects (one, admittedly, the unfinished "spacehack" here on this blog) and a few instances of folks who could have a feline other form here and there as well, there are no actual cat people in Lindwyrm (though there's the wise panther in Lindwyrm Lockbox, and in recent critters there's the clewe and the steelmender at least that I recall).
So what's an option for a cat person, for Lindwyrm or whatever? Hmm ...
How about:
- Felit: See in the dark; +1/lvl to tests involving athletics; 2-in-6 sense ghosts within 40'; unarmed damage half of weapon damage (claws)
What do felit look like? I don't know, you tell me -- I have my preferences (which can change with setting, lol), but it's not like I described the species options in Lockbox.
(maybe I'll do that in some other post some time, just for the giggles)
Can I add a few more other instances of felinity to this post? Let's see --
Pasht: Grey-coated cats the size of hunting hounds, with eyes like twin moons and glinting silver claws. Hunters of the dark.
2 HD, AC 13, +2 bite (1d3) or claws (1d4+1/1d4+1), ML 9, slash: if both claws hit, kick for 1d6 automatically; purify: claws deal double damage to shifters, demons and the dead; spellbreak, 1/4 actions
Tiger-Of-The-Sword: Sometimes an oath -- of binding, of fealty, of promise just that fervent -- calls forth a great burning beast of terrible majesty to witness it and hold it fast.
9 HD, AC 16, +9 bite (2d6) or claws (2d8/2d8), ML 12, mundane immune, 4-in-6 spell resist, ignore confinement, sword blessing: oathmaker receives +4 to an action in service to their oath, 1/month; sword's scourge: instant teleport to oathbreaker's location
And then, reaching ever higher --
* Ssefrrith, Queen Of The Sky
Great goddess, heavenly cat, whose patches are the clouds and whose spots are the stars, toy with the sun and the moon across the vault of the sky. Watch all below and send the rain, cool the land with the winds, rage tempests against those who raise violence against your people.
- Raise yourself up as I have raised myself up. Give hope -- more than empty words -- to those who need; have I not carried you in my own mouth, likewise, until you learned and walked? Defend your home and raise your people into light. -
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