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Old 08-18-2012, 02:15 AM
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Default Skill Idea for the Occult Mastery

An cool idea came to me the other day when I was reading up about crows, ravens and rooks for a D&D character concept. I read that a group of ravens is called an unkindness. I know the Occult mastery has a skill to summon a raven (or something similar), so my idea was to add an upgrade skill to the raven that was a buff aura. The aura could affect players and other summoned creatures, giving them a buff called 'Unkindness' (I like to think of it as the raven adopting you and your minions to its flock).

The 'Unkindness' buff would simply be a retaliation damage buff, reflecting a percent of damage received back at the monster with the percentage increasing as more points are added. It might not sound too fancy but I really think the name adds a lot of flavor to the existing summon raven skill.
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Old 08-18-2012, 05:55 AM
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An cool idea came to me the other day when I was reading up about crows, ravens and rooks for a D&D character concept. I read that a group of ravens is called an unkindness. I know the Occult mastery has a skill to summon a raven (or something similar), so my idea was to add an upgrade skill to the raven that was a buff aura. The aura could affect players and other summoned creatures, giving them a buff called 'Unkindness' (I like to think of it as the raven adopting you and your minions to its flock).

The 'Unkindness' buff would simply be a retaliation damage buff, reflecting a percent of damage received back at the monster with the percentage increasing as more points are added. It might not sound too fancy but I really think the name adds a lot of flavor to the existing summon raven skill.
I take back my comment. The more I think about it the more I like the idea.
Good work on coming up with this, Druthers!
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Old 08-23-2012, 10:49 AM
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Maybe the raven could gain ythe ability to remove certain debuffs, such as cleanse for poison or purify for curses.

Which edition Druthers? I am in Dark Sun 4e. and DMing 2nd.
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