Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Thursday, 10th February 2011, 18:30
What is the viability of a no-reading race?
I know many successfully WIN with existing races without casting any spells, but do they also not use scrolls?
I would like to know the viability of building a "blurry eyes 4" type of race (without the trap-detection penalties).
Is this something that could work out as a balanced race, or am I just asking for a species of Trog-worshipers?
There would be no scroll use and no spellbook use. Spellcasting would be near-to-nonexistent.
I would assume spells (and for that matter, only Conjurations!) could only be learned if one was following Vehumet under the most recent rules.
Otherwise, starting spellcasters would be assumed to have been taught their first spell, and drop a paper brick.
There could possibly be one or two braile artefact spellbooks, but otherwise no other spellcasting resources.
At best, we'd need to provide some sort of "Spell Shop" where you would spend gold not to purchase books, but to be taught spells.
I'm not certain what we would have to do to compensate this type of race, but I'd suspect a +5 Evocables might be in order
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