https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YY7qMeI9NyNI5RXJZ-9UBl6FIVRhha4T/view?usp=sharing

Hey all,

This is an updated draft of my PC race for dragon hybrids. Any balance concerns here?

The flying talent is possibly too low a tier, perhaps it should be at 4.

The breath weapon seems a little underpowered compared to other natural weapons, perhaps give it slow firing 2 then increase the damage a touch. You have really dialed it back from the original Ability.

Also just from a formatting perspective the text in the box on the bottom left is completely illegible with the white pattern across it.

Definitely an awesome species though

29 minutes ago, Richardbuxton said:

The flying talent is possibly too low a tier, perhaps it should be at 4.

The breath weapon seems a little underpowered compared to other natural weapons, perhaps give it slow firing 2 then increase the damage a touch. You have really dialed it back from the original Ability.

Also just from a formatting perspective the text in the box on the bottom left is completely illegible with the white pattern across it.

Definitely an awesome species though

flight - i considered this too, that was definitely one of the areas i was looking for feedback on.

breath weapon - yeah, i matched it up with the cat folk's claws ability but i think adding the once per encounter really weakened it. Which do you think players would perfer - a rarer more powerful breath, or a breath that can be used fairly often but not as strong?

as far as text box in the bottom left, im not sure what you mean? there should be an image in the bottom left

2 hours ago, saethone said:

flight - i considered this too, that was definitely one of the areas i was looking for feedback on.

breath weapon - yeah, i matched it up with the cat folk's claws ability but i think adding the once per encounter really weakened it. Which do you think players would perfer - a rarer more powerful breath, or a breath that can be used fairly often but not as strong?

as far as text box in the bottom left, im not sure what you mean? there should be an image in the bottom left

Folks mentioned this in the previous iteration, but have you considered modeling the breath weapon on the Ithorian bellow from Star Wars? (Resilience; Damage 6; Critical 4; Range [Short]; Blast 3, Concussive 1, Slow-Firing 2, Stun Damage). Each time it's used, it costs 3 Strain.

I'd prefer a Strain cost to a once/encounter limitation. That way it becomes more of a strategic resource for the player to use. I'd probably bump base damage up but make the Critical rating higher, too, to compensate. I like the Slow-Firing idea, too.

1 hour ago, SavageBob said:

Folks mentioned this in the previous iteration, but have you considered modeling the breath weapon on the Ithorian bellow from Star Wars? (Resilience; Damage 6; Critical 4; Range [Short]; Blast 3, Concussive 1, Slow-Firing 2, Stun Damage). Each time it's used, it costs 3 Strain.

I'd prefer a Strain cost to a once/encounter limitation. That way it becomes more of a strategic resource for the player to use. I'd probably bump base damage up but make the Critical rating higher, too, to compensate. I like the Slow-Firing idea, too.

Hmm that's a good idea, but as that one is stun damage it'd probably need to be a lot lower damage to be balanced. Then again bellow is balanced for the ithorian abilities and star wars stuff so i'll have to think about that some.

3 hours ago, saethone said:

as far as text box in the bottom left, im not sure what you mean? there should be an image in the bottom left

Sorry, I meant bottom right. There’s a side bar there and for some reason it has a white pattern overlaying it that makes the text illegible

1 hour ago, SavageBob said:

Folks mentioned this in the previous iteration, but have you considered modeling the breath weapon on the Ithorian bellow from Star Wars? (Resilience; Damage 6; Critical 4; Range [Short]; Blast 3, Concussive 1, Slow-Firing 2, Stun Damage). Each time it's used, it costs 3 Strain.

This is a good idea, although it would need the qualities changing a bit:

Resilience; Damage 6; Critical 4; Range [Short]; Blast 3, Burn 1, Slow-Firing 2

3 minutes ago, Richardbuxton said:

Sorry, I meant bottom right. There’s a side bar there and for some reason it has a white pattern overlaying it that makes the text illegible

Thats very odd. There is a pattern in that box but its at <1% opacity so it should barely be visible - the same as it is in the book. I've tested with a few different pdf viewers and it shows correctly everywhere I'm looking. What are you using to view the pdf?

iPhone, Safari/iBooks, both view the Genesys PDF fine

2 minutes ago, Richardbuxton said:

iPhone, Safari/iBooks, both view the Genesys PDF fine

yep, looks like the same on my phone. strange. i wonder if that's part of how gmbinder renders pdfs or what...i'll have to look into that