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> An Alternate Look at Asha'man, Warning: Winter's Heart Spoilers
Zarozynia
Posted: May 31 2004, 05:38 PM
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I have been playing around with the soldier class of Asha'man, trying to adapt the initiate class as is to better reflect the training Mazrim Taim gave his students. This, of course, applies to games within the book timeline, and also before the taint was cleansed by Rand at the end of Winter's Heart. I know that this is going to create quite a bit of contraversy, as there are many men who would like to be asha'man but dont want to suffer the penalties, no matter what the benefits may be. Remember, I am trying to make this truer to the book, and there is still always the option of playing a wilder and not dealing with the Black tower at all. Also, any character who has more than three levels in wilder before they join the black tower still progresses as a Wilder, and therefor does not suffer the penalties or benefits of this class.

What I am doing in my game is automatically giving the Forced Feat to all men who are taught to channel in the Black Tower. (I will include it as I have written at the bottom) What this does is change their initiate progression to that of a wilder, with an added benefit. For any given level, the character can cast weaves at a level higher than the wilder progression would normally allow for. This is due to Taim forcing them to use the power for all activities, forcing them to gain power much quicker than normal. But, of course, there is a risk. Because these channelers are really dealing with powers that they are not ready for, they suffer a greater chance of burning themselves out from overchanneling. All DCs for check made when overchanneling are increased by 5. You might argue that a character could take this benefit and never overchannel, but my argument here is that a good GM would never allow this to happen. Asha'man are forced to channel to do everything, and I plan on enforcing this ruthlessly with my characters that make this choice. And many of these tasks will require overchanneling to accomplish them, especially as low level channelers.

Forced (requirement: must be able to channel and have at least one level in the initiate class)
This character is trained at an accelerated pace, learning to tap into the deep forced within themselves. This forced ability comes at a price though, as the chances of harming or stilling yourself increase greatly.
Benefits - After a month of training with the One Power, a character that is being forced can now cast weaves twice as high as they would naturally be able to. For every level that an initiate gains, they can channel the One Power at the channeling level of a Wilder +1.
Drawbacks - Characters that are forced are often asked to channel at a level that they are not yet able. All over channeling DCs are at an extra +5 to concentration and fortitude saves. Also, you madness rating at every level increases by 1 more than your roll.
Special - All asha'man soldiers receive this feat at their first channeling level.

This post has been edited by Zarozynia on May 31 2004, 05:39 PM


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Darius Earthbinder
Posted: May 31 2004, 11:06 PM
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nice idea, does it overwrite one of the first level ashaman feats? or stack with?

also how does this affect the offensive control/ improved offensive control that ashaman get at third and 6th level
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Zarozynia
Posted: May 31 2004, 11:37 PM
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well, remember that I not actually talking about the asha'man prestiege class here as no channeler can take that until they are higher level, I am talking about giving this to them when they are a level 1 initiate. This is basically for the "soldiers" of the black tower, I figure that the point in which they become "Dedicated" is probably when they would be taking their first level in the PC. I have to look at the Asha'man PC again before I can answer your second question specifically, but this may or may not answer it as is.

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Darius Earthbinder
Posted: May 31 2004, 11:42 PM
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as an additional feat, or instead of the extra afinity/talent when they become a first level initiate?

you are right the prestige class would seem to be about when they become dedicated, but following on from the Aes sedai PrC they seem to be the point at which they become aes sedai, so by extrapolation Asha'man should be when they get the dragon

(iirc Initiate is where Accepted are, and presumably Dedicated also. as below that they dont have enough control over the power?)
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Posted: May 31 2004, 11:51 PM
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yeah, personally the level one initiate being an accepted has always seemed like crap to me because an accepted should have more control than a level one initiate will ever have. I would say that maybe it falls somewhere in between, but you have to make a level one initiate a soldier if they are training under Taim in the game because before that they shouldn't have been able to channel. Or so it seems to me. Not particuarly important, though.

I would give it to all asha'man as a extra feat as a level one initiate. I actually would like to write out a class specifically for male iniates in the Black tower, since its much different than female initiate under any tradition, but I have too much on my plate to do that right now. So I'm settling for this. biggrin.gif


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