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Old 03-14-2011, 10:41 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1
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Default Symbiont Support 3.5 PEACH

OK, so the idea is, Magic of Eberron contains a race, the Daelkyr Half-blood, and the Symbionts and Grafts as Treasure sidebar. Both contain tables that reference each of the Symbionts in Eberron Campaign Setting and Magic of Eberron.

However, a great many Symbionts were already printed in the Fiend Folio, and were not included in either table. I'm expanding both of these tables to include the Fiend Folio Symbionts, plus any homebrew Symbionts that I come across. I will not, for obvious reasons, be reproducing the entries from Magic of Eberron in either table.

More information on Symbionts and related items can be found in my Fleshwarping list.

Table 1: Daelkyr Half-blood Personal Symbionts
These entries are in addition to those found in Magic of Eberron, pg. 37.
Level Choices1
1st Restless ArmorEG
5th Angel ClawEG, Flame GloveEG, Psionic SinewFF, Skull MantleEG
10th Eldritch ClawEG, SpellknightEG, Sky ScourgeEG
15th Cerebral HoodFF
20th Living Breastplate2, Mind LeechFF
1 All choices from an earlier level are also available to a higher-level Daelkyr half-blood.
2 The Living Breastplate was presumably not included in the original table intentionally; I have added it at 20th because it seems appropriate.
EG Homebrew symbiont by EdroGrimshell et al.
FF Published in Fiend Folio. Only the Cerebral Symbionts (that is, not the Fiendish Symbionts) are included, reflecting the fact that, in the Eberron campaign setting, Illithids are the creations and pawns of the Daelkyr, and therefore Daelkyr Half-bloods would have access to them.


Table 2: Symbionts as Treasure
These entries are in addition to those found in Magic of Eberron, pg. 154.
Symbiont GP Equivalent
Angel ClawEG 8,000
Cerebral HoodFF No gp value*
Eldritch ClawEG 15,000
Fiendish FamiliarFF 6,000
Flame GloveEG 2,000
Ghostly VisageFF 25,000
GutwormFF 10,000
Mind LeechFF No gp value*
Psionic SinewFF 25,000
Restless ArmorEG 500
Soul TickFF 10,000
SpellknightEG 15,000
Skull MantleEG 15,000
Sky ScourgeEG 15,000
EG Homebrew symbiont by EdroGrimshell et al.
FF Published in Fiend Folio.

* The Cerebral Hood and Mind Leech symbionts are frighteningly good: the base cost for an item that does what each of them does (barring Ego conflicts and the Int damage) is 110,000 and 275,000 gp, respectively. Moreover, they're both much better than such an item would be, because they are creatures with their own actions, and therefore using their abilities doesn't require yours. However, the DC on all of their abilities is 17, which by the time you could afford these kinds of costs, is worthless. Thus, I suggest treating them as Minor Artifacts: they are very much rewards, powerful ones, for a DM to give players. Of course, getting one probably means getting past someone who is using them, which should be quite challenging.

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How would you price the carapace symbionts from Dragon 308?
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I don't have Dragon 308, so I couldn't tell you, I'm afraid. That fact's been annoying me, actually.

Since Edro's bumped this for me (thanks!), I'll take this opportunity to ask once again for PEACH.

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I don't have Dragon 308, so I couldn't tell you, I'm afraid. That fact's been annoying me, actually.

Since Erdo's bumped this for me (thanks!), I'll take this opportunity to ask once again for PEACH.
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Of course it is, I don't know what you're talking about!

Sorry about that...

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Everyone does it, i've gotten used to it
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This all looks fine through the cerebral hood and mind leech are rather poorly designed symbiotes for PCs from the get go, overpowered at low levels but useless at high levels.
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I agree, I'm not a fan of either. Though you can share spells with your symbionts, which might make something like Bear's Endurance or Fox's Cunning effective enough at upping the DCs so as to be worth using?
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