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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8471366" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Okay, firstly, the original monster had "will-force spell or psionic attacks, such as <em>fear</em>, <em>scare</em>, <em>emotion</em>, or <em>charm</em>, are completely ineffective against an enslaver or a person controlled by an enslaver. An enslaver may only attempt to control one person at a time."</p><p></p><p>So we should give the enslaver immunity to psychic damage as well as the host:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Damage Immunities</strong> psychic</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Condition Immunities</strong> blinded, charmed, frightened</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">While enslaved, the dominated host gains the enslaver's immunities to being blinded, charmed or frightened and its immunity to psychic damage.</p><p></p><p>We should clarify Enslave only works on one creature at a time, but that makes me wonder about the details.</p><p></p><p>For example, can an Enslaver still use its Dominating Pseudopod while enslaving a host or does it have to "unplug" its pseudopod from a host before it can pseodopod-attack another?</p><p></p><p>Enslavers can deliberately separate themselves from hosts: they'd be little sense enslaving an animal to search for a new host if they were stuck to the animal.</p><p></p><p>In the novel, a Puppet Master could transfer itself from one host to another (one used a cat to enter the hero's home). Come to think of it, I also vaguely recall that a person would carry multiple Masters to spread them around.</p><p></p><p>So when an Enslaver splits, could one enslave the host while the other one just rides the host, then if they come upon another creature either one (if enslaving prevents <em>Dominating Pseudopod</em> use) or both (if it doesn't) can pseudopod-attack the creature so one of the enslavers can claim it as their host?</p><p></p><p>The adventure One-Eye Canyon has two enslavers, one with a 5th level fighter host and the other in the same cave with no host, but there's no mention of them co-operating.</p><p></p><p>Maybe this is the main difference between the Enslavers and Heinlein's Puppet Masters. They are not hive-mind cooperative creatures like the latter, but individualistic creatures who don't work together (hence the Chaotic Evil alignment).</p><p></p><p>Maybe they're all narcissistic tyrants? They presumably don't fight each other as much as most CE creatures, otherwise the host-riding enslaver would have killed or driven away the other one in its cave, who is presumably its offspring (or, rather, the "other half of itself" as they would be mitosis-siblings).</p><p></p><p>That suggests the Pseudopod and Enslave abilities need a little tweaking.</p><p></p><p>Maybe add the lines "Can only attack when not enslaving a creature (see Reactions)" and "Can only enslave one creature, and must release a current host before trying to enslave another" line to them and adjust the rest?</p><p></p><p>Also wondering if we should make add a comment or two about their psychology to the Description. Mostly do they work together to try enslaving as many people as possible, or are they narcisstic tyrants who ignore each other, or perhaps never attack other enslavers but often kill their hosts in power struggles?</p><p></p><p>EDIT: It seems prudent to agree on what we'd like for the above Pseudopod / Enslave / Description tweaks before working on the details.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8471366, member: 57383"] Okay, firstly, the original monster had "will-force spell or psionic attacks, such as [I]fear[/I], [I]scare[/I], [I]emotion[/I], or [I]charm[/I], are completely ineffective against an enslaver or a person controlled by an enslaver. An enslaver may only attempt to control one person at a time." So we should give the enslaver immunity to psychic damage as well as the host: [INDENT][B]Damage Immunities[/B] psychic[/INDENT] [INDENT][B]Condition Immunities[/B] blinded, charmed, frightened[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]While enslaved, the dominated host gains the enslaver's immunities to being blinded, charmed or frightened and its immunity to psychic damage.[/INDENT] We should clarify Enslave only works on one creature at a time, but that makes me wonder about the details. For example, can an Enslaver still use its Dominating Pseudopod while enslaving a host or does it have to "unplug" its pseudopod from a host before it can pseodopod-attack another? Enslavers can deliberately separate themselves from hosts: they'd be little sense enslaving an animal to search for a new host if they were stuck to the animal. In the novel, a Puppet Master could transfer itself from one host to another (one used a cat to enter the hero's home). Come to think of it, I also vaguely recall that a person would carry multiple Masters to spread them around. So when an Enslaver splits, could one enslave the host while the other one just rides the host, then if they come upon another creature either one (if enslaving prevents [I]Dominating Pseudopod[/I] use) or both (if it doesn't) can pseudopod-attack the creature so one of the enslavers can claim it as their host? The adventure One-Eye Canyon has two enslavers, one with a 5th level fighter host and the other in the same cave with no host, but there's no mention of them co-operating. Maybe this is the main difference between the Enslavers and Heinlein's Puppet Masters. They are not hive-mind cooperative creatures like the latter, but individualistic creatures who don't work together (hence the Chaotic Evil alignment). Maybe they're all narcissistic tyrants? They presumably don't fight each other as much as most CE creatures, otherwise the host-riding enslaver would have killed or driven away the other one in its cave, who is presumably its offspring (or, rather, the "other half of itself" as they would be mitosis-siblings). That suggests the Pseudopod and Enslave abilities need a little tweaking. Maybe add the lines "Can only attack when not enslaving a creature (see Reactions)" and "Can only enslave one creature, and must release a current host before trying to enslave another" line to them and adjust the rest? Also wondering if we should make add a comment or two about their psychology to the Description. Mostly do they work together to try enslaving as many people as possible, or are they narcisstic tyrants who ignore each other, or perhaps never attack other enslavers but often kill their hosts in power struggles? EDIT: It seems prudent to agree on what we'd like for the above Pseudopod / Enslave / Description tweaks before working on the details. [/QUOTE]
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