Racial Ability: Worth a Feat? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Racial Ability: Worth a Feat? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Davith Bothain
06-16-07, 08:38 AM I've been pondering creating a trollkin character whose great-great-grandfather was a grendle (Bastards and Bloodlines p. 26). As-is, his racial abilities reflect those of a normal human, save slightly modified height, weight, and age categories and a lack of physical deterioration with age. However, the fast healing special ability presented piques my interest. Since I believe this is Open Game Content (if not, please delete):

Fast Healing 1 (Ex):Grendles regain lost hit points at the rate of 1 per hour. This is just like natural healing and cannot restore hit point loss from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. Although they lack true regeneration, grendles may regrow severed body parts, as long as they were not lost to fire or acid damage. Such limbs regrow after 2d4 days with a successful Fortitude save (DC 20). On a failure, the limb is permanently lost.

Since I'm looking to have a caster, any LA is quite unwelcome. I'm wondering if anyone thinks this suitable for inclusion in a feat. If not, how do you believe it could be edited to make it fair for that purpose? (Bear in mind, if this mitigates feelings of overpoweredness at all, that this would be available only to individuals of a certain bloodline, possibly with a certain Constitution score or other abilities.)
Rerecros
06-16-07, 08:58 AM Yes, this does appear to be worth exactly one feat.
runestar
06-16-07, 10:09 AM Extremely useful at lower lvs (where 12 hp healed over a 12-hour period is pretty much equal to how much hp you have anyways), virtually worthless at higher lvs (where 24 hp healed each day is moot when you have hundreds of hp).

My only concern is the nuisance of keeping track of how much time has elapsed. Otherwise, yeah, it seems okay for a feat.
Neutronium_Dragon
06-16-07, 10:16 AM The problem is that the rate of recovery is too low to really be of much practical value in an adventuring situation. If you want to make a PC ability out of it, you'd probably do better to give the character something like Sprint Healing 1 / ( Character Level + Con Modifier ).

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Davith Bothain 06-16-07, 08:38 AM	I've been pondering creating a trollkin character whose great-great-grandfather was a grendle (Bastards and Bloodlines p. 26). As-is, his racial abilities reflect those of a normal human, save slightly modified height, weight, and age categories and a lack of physical deterioration with age. However, the fast healing special ability presented piques my interest. Since I believe this is Open Game Content (if not, please delete): Fast Healing 1 (Ex):Grendles regain lost hit points at the rate of 1 per hour. This is just like natural healing and cannot restore hit point loss from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. Although they lack true regeneration, grendles may regrow severed body parts, as long as they were not lost to fire or acid damage. Such limbs regrow after 2d4 days with a successful Fortitude save (DC 20). On a failure, the limb is permanently lost. Since I'm looking to have a caster, any LA is quite unwelcome. I'm wondering if anyone thinks this suitable for inclusion in a feat. If not, how do you believe it could be edited to make it fair for that purpose? (Bear in mind, if this mitigates feelings of overpoweredness at all, that this would be available only to individuals of a certain bloodline, possibly with a certain Constitution score or other abilities.)
Rerecros 06-16-07, 08:58 AM	Yes, this does appear to be worth exactly one feat.
runestar 06-16-07, 10:09 AM	Extremely useful at lower lvs (where 12 hp healed over a 12-hour period is pretty much equal to how much hp you have anyways), virtually worthless at higher lvs (where 24 hp healed each day is moot when you have hundreds of hp). My only concern is the nuisance of keeping track of how much time has elapsed. Otherwise, yeah, it seems okay for a feat.
Neutronium_Dragon 06-16-07, 10:16 AM	The problem is that the rate of recovery is too low to really be of much practical value in an adventuring situation. If you want to make a PC ability out of it, you'd probably do better to give the character something like Sprint Healing 1 / ( Character Level + Con Modifier ).