Bioform - You're Either Perfect, Or You're Not Me
Feb 9, 2024 22:15:49 GMT -6
Post by Amanojyaku on Feb 9, 2024 22:15:49 GMT -6
[fluff]
Tell: Your body twitches and convulses as you spend Operons, trying to express them as each of the races that make up your being in turn. Your muscles bulge, your face contorts, as your body attempts to show all that it is at once.
Powers
Imperfect Being: Although weaker than most mortals, you have unlimited potential waiting to be tapped. You have one fewer dot to assign in each Characteristic category during character creation. When you increase your Genome, you also add 1 dot to one of your Characteristics.
Genetic Splicing: Choose two additional races during character creation. You can buy those races' racial feats as if you were those races, except for feats that refer to or improve a racial ability that you do not have. Additionally, you gain 1 dot each in one skill granted by each of those races. You cannot buy any feats that allow you to buy the racial feats of another race.
Uncanny Resilience: Gain additional Hit Points equal to twice your Genome. You are immune to blood loss and can't be killed by critical damage unless that damage comes from an E, X, or magical source. If you would suffer enough damage from another source that it would normally kill you, you are instead knocked unconscious until you regenerate all critical damage. You can spend Operons to recover Hit Points in combat as a free action.
Lamarck's Lament: Bioforms are unnatural beings, and it shows. You take a check on social tests made to interact with individuals of your race or any of the races chosen through this exaltation's powers or assets. Additionally, Medicae tests made on you take a check unless the character making the test has a specialty (Bioforms) in either Medicae or the applicable characteristic.
Power Stat: Genome: Your Genome is the sum of the lineage factors that make up your being, representing not just the many races that contributed to your creation but also how those factors interact with each other and give birth to your exalted power. As your Genome increases, your appearance smooths out, the conflicting features of many races blending together into a seamless whole.
Resource Stat: Operons: Operons are messenger components, drawing out what lurks within your combined lineage factors. You have Operons equal to your Level + Genome + Medicae. You can recover one Operon with a Medicae test against TN 15, plus one more per raise on the test. This takes one hour, and can be performed by any character.
*Karyon Core: You can perform a Healing Surge as a Reaction when your Hit Points are reduced to 0 or lower by an attack that did not cause more wounds than your Level. You heal all injurious conditions upon healing all critical damage.
**Atavism: Select two traits granted by the Wild Shape and Improved Wild Shape feats. You gain those traits. The rating of the Flyer trait gained through this power is equal to your Speed.
***Semi-Perfect Existence: Gain Armor and Aura equal to your Genome. Whenever you would fail a test with only one check or fewer, you can spend 1 Operon to instead succeed with 0 raises.
****Secrets of Evolution: Gain +2 Resilience. You become immune to the effects of fatigue and environmental hazards.
*****Perfect Life-Form: You can raise any of your skills or characteristics up to 6 dots. Gain one dot in any characteristic.
Bioform Morphology Assets
Burning
Splicing your genes with a Syrneth lineage factor resulted in your very blood burning like the sun, a mane of flames that produces light like a torch. Gain one rank of the Desert Wind sword school. You can advance this school as if it appeared in your class progression. While you are on fire, reduce the damage you take from any source by your Genome.
Familiar
The various lineage factors that went into your creation have been woven together much more smoothly, a sheet of silk rather than hair. The penalty to social tests from Lamarck's Lament does not apply against anyone who hasn't noticed your tell. Additionally, you can increase any of your skills as if they were part of your current class.
Mysterian
You only think the lineage factor coursing through your veins might be from a daemon, or perhaps something from the deep Umbra... a mysterious, unknown X that unsettles mind and soul. You can spend 1 Operon to force an enemy to make a Fear test with a rating equal to your Genome. If you cause a target to roll on the Shock table, they must roll twice and take the higher result.
Phrenic
You've been suffused with a lineage factor taken from the Aboleth, causing your brain to grow like theirs, expanding throughout your body as it crackles with psychic power. Gain one rank of any magical school. You can advance this school as if it appeared in your class progression. Additionally, you can "speak" telepathically, projecting your thoughts instantly and silently upon anyone in your presence capable of understanding language, regardless of whether you share one. This allows you to ignore the Language-Dependent keyword, but does not enable anyone you "send" to to respond in kind.
Wetware
There's a unique circuitry woven into your skin, coupled with an oily blue-green ichor replacing the blood in your veins that's been referred to disparagingly as the Modrontyr's lineage factor. You gain the Mechanicus Implants feat and the benefits of a Good-quality mind impulse unit, capable of interfacing with any device whether or not it is actually capable of MIU linking. Additionally, you make untrained Tech-Use, Pilot, and Drive tests as if you had one dot in the skill.