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Old Summoner [Dead]
Topic Started: Sep 26 2014, 03:34 PM (1,257 Views)
Kwak
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Summoner (Work in Progress)

Characteristics: Intelligence, Fellowship, Willpower
Skills: Arcana, Academic Lore, Animal Ken, Command, Common Lore, Forbidden Lore, Persuasion
Magic Schools: Abjuration, Conjuration, Necromancy
Level Completion: +1 to all Tests against Warp entities

Medium
Level 1
Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore 2, Arcana 3
Feats:
  • Obtain Familiar
  • Implement Focus
  • Foresight
  • Servant Scout
  • *Tested



Caller
Level 2
Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore 3, Arcana 3, Conjuration at rank 1, Foresight
Feats:
  • Animal Companion
  • Divine Bond
  • Spell Specialization (Conjuration)
  • Strong Minded
  • Improved Lesser Servant
  • *Weapon Prof (Ordinary)



Convoker
Level 3
Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore 4, Arcana 4, Conjuration at rank 2, Improved Lesser Servant
Feats:
  • Improved Animal Companion
  • Spell Book
  • Summon Herald
  • Improved Lesser Servant
  • Servant Sight
  • *Speak Language (any)



Summoner
Level 4
Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore 4, Arcana 4, Conjuration at rank 3, Summon Herald
Feats:
  • Beastmaster
  • Mental Fortress
  • Improved Greater Servant
  • Improved Lesser Servant
  • Virgil's Guidance
  • *Spell Book



High Summoner
Level 5
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Forbidden Lore 5, Arcana 5, Conjuration at rank 4, Improved Greater Servant
Feats:
  • Air of Authority
  • Grand Summon
  • Improved Greater Servant
  • Servant Snatch







Servant Scout
You can communicate with any warp entities. This isn't quite speech as it is between two people, but more of a general understanding and pantomime type of thing. This allows you to use social skills as normal with animals, though. Unfortunately, it allows them to do the same to you assuming they have any.
Also, you may double the duration of all spells with "Servant" in their name.

Improved Lesser Servant
When using the Conjuration spell "Lesser Servant", you may spend a resource point to instead summon a Lesser Servant of your Alignment, applying the listed changes to the summoned Servant. If you go against any of the ten commandments of a Servant's alignment while the spell lasts, the spell ends immediately and triggers Warp Phenomena. If this feat is taken additional times, a different Lesser Servant must be chosen from within your Alignment's pantheon.

To create an Improved Lesser Servant, raise two of its Attributes and four of its Skills by 1 dot. Then, select any four Traits, spells, dots of Inheritance, Special Attacks, or feats available at Level 2 or lower (at the SM's discretion). Their character, actions and abilities should reflect their Alignment.

Summon Herald
Once per session, you may spend a Hero point to attempt to summon your Alignment's Herald, a daemon which serves as an avatar of your Deity's will. Doing so takes a Full Action, and a Willpower + Conjuration Focus Power Test (TN 25). If successful, the Herald appears for the duration of the scene and act under your control. In addition, the Herald must be satisfied with "payment" by taking an action that would earn a point of Resolve in the Herald's Alignment (no Resolve is gained). If a payment is not made, the Focus Power TN is 35 instead, and you are forced to make an Alignment check for your insolence. If you go against any of the ten commandments of the Herald's alignment while it is present, you automatically trigger Perils of the Warp and lose control of the Herald, who may leave or attempt to punish you. Unlike Servants, the Herald is a unique individual, and will remember all previous encounters with its summoner. Heralds are built using the Monster Creation rules, with a level equal to the Summoner's Conjuration rank, and receive their Alignment's "Mark" Asset and the Resource Trait for free.

Old Monster rules


Servant Sight
Your ties to the beings you summon are growing. You perceive everything that your Familiar, Animal Companions, divine steed, Servants, and Herald do.

Improved Greater Servant
When using the Conjuration spell "Greater Servant", you may spend two resource points to instead summon a Greater Servant specific to your Alignment, applying the listed changes to the summoned Servant. If you go against any of the commandments of a Servant's alignment while the spell lasts, the spell ends immediately and triggers Warp Phenomena. If this feat is taken additional times, a different Greater Servant must be chosen from within your Alignment's pantheon.

To create an Improved Greater Servant, raise three of its Attributes and six of its Skills by 1 dot. Then, select any six Traits, spells, dots of Inheritance, Special Attacks, or feats available at Level 4 or lower (at the SM's discretion). Their character, actions and abilities should reflect their Alignment.

Grand Summon
You have established a genuine bond with your Herald. Choose one of the following:
Wild Card: Create a second Herald from any Alignment, even an opposing one. You may choose to summon this Herald instead, but you can still only attempt to summon a Herald once per session.
Ghostly Ripple: When summoning your Herald, you may attempt to merge your body with it. The Focus Power Test is increased to TN 35, and the payment is mandatory. If successful, you become one with your Herald for the duration of the scene, gaining all Feats, Spells, and Traits it posesses while retaining your own. The highest of all Characteristic and Skill dots are used, and your size is the average of you and your Herald's normal Size.
Cooltrainer: Your Herald can be summoned once per Scene as a Half Action, and will not go out of control if you go against the commandments of your Alignment, triggering Warp Phenomena instead of Perils of the Warp.

Servant Snatch
Your mastery over Warp entities is absolute. Once per scene, you may attempt to snatch a ghost, daemon, summoned servant, or other Warp entity by making an Opposed Willpower test as a full action. The target adds their current hit points and the caster level of their caster (if applicable) as a bonus to their roll. If you win, the target behaves as if summoned with a Lesser Servant spell, vanishing once the duration expires. If the target wins, you are Stunned for one round and trigger Warp Phenomena.
Edited by Kwak, Mar 22 2016, 12:49 AM.
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weredrago2
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This is great. 10/10 would allow at table.

EDIT: For summoning Lesser and Greater Servants, should we just redistribute the characteristics for Alignment Servants?
That would give a Lesser Servant 9 dots and a Greater Servant 27 dots, not including the first dots.
Edited by weredrago2, Sep 26 2014, 04:11 PM.
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Kwak
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weredrago2
Sep 26 2014, 04:02 PM
This is great. 10/10 would allow at table.

EDIT: For summoning Lesser and Greater Servants, should we just redistribute the characteristics for Alignment Servants?
That would give a Lesser Servant 9 dots and a Greater Servant 27 dots, not including the first dots.
Something like that. The other issue is determining "relevant skills" and how that scales. Perhaps 6 dots for lesser, 18 for greater, give or take a few based on other strengths and weaknesses?

Initially, I'd planned on these being super simple, like "+2 Weaponry -2 Intelligence" but just distributing dots makes sense since it's a permanent decision that would happen during downtime so it wouldn't slow the game down.
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Eisenritter
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Wait, Aligned Servants? Heralds? Uh... I missed something, didn't I...
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Kwak
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That's why it's a WIP. There's no summons yet. There will be a specific Lesser Servant, Greater Servant, and Herald for each god, and they'll have different stats and such (not my idea but hey).

Servants are based off of the Conjuration spells, and will be at about that power level. Heralds are high cost, high reward Final Fantasy-style summons.
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The threads should be archived. Just check for the Dungeons: The Dragoning threads from the past week. A Beastmen race was made, but I don't think it was linked here yet.
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Eisenritter
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Oh, good, I can refrain from complaining about that, then. Seems solid enough regardless... though I question the wisdom of calling one an "evoker" if he doesn't use Evocation? Might I suggest Convoker as a replacement? It suits the multi-setting parody madness a bit; "convoke" is a mechanic in MtG that deals mostly with summoning. :)
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Kwak
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Sep 26 2014, 07:01 PM
Oh, good, I can refrain from complaining about that, then. Seems solid enough regardless... though I question the wisdom of calling one an "evoker" if he doesn't use Evocation? Might I suggest Convoker as a replacement? It suits the multi-setting parody madness a bit; "convoke" is a mechanic in MtG that deals mostly with summoning. :)
Very nice! MtG references for a Summoner totally slipped my mind -_- .

"Oracle" has been changed to "Medium", "Evoker" has been changed to "Convoker", and "Grand Summoner" has been changed to "High Summoner", per various suggestions.
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Soulblazer_87

Servant Snatch seems a bit... well, reminds me of a few Yu-gi-oh and MtG cards that made me want to throttle the person doing it... Other than that, seems fine and solid. I'd suggest switching Foresight for Servant Scout as the prerequisite for 2nd level though. Just to make extra-sure people will get the 1st level before moving to the second. As was proven in these forums, there was a way to start out as a 5th level character, before LawfulNice fixed it.
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Soulblazer_87

Idea; how about some feats/Completion bonuses that strengthen the already-existing Summon spells, instead of having to invent something new? Or, at least, summon and maintain more than ONE per Summon spell.
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