Converting the Species Feats from Origin of Species

[Sletchman]

I miss Iconic classes . Those feats always look gelded to me without that branch of the system.

I loved the idea of iconic classes - the penalty itself was just far too harsh in my opinion.  In fact I always thought it should have been a bonus [which would be hard to work in] rather then a penalty.

[Krensky]

I still think if it had presented with the level table giving one less die and then iconics and humans getting a bonus die no one would have whined.

[Morgenstern]

I loved the idea of iconic classes - the penalty itself was just far too harsh in my opinion.  In fact I always thought it should have been a bonus [which would be hard to work in] rather then a penalty.

Upon later consideration I concluded that losing 1 die would have been sufficient to be a legitimate -1 drawback.

It creates a choice where you either~

Suffer -1 starting action dice (totaly solid as a -1 penalty)

Or

Effectively gain 1 design point for playing heavily to one of 2 classes.

Oh well. You never stop learning.

[Morgenstern]

I still think if it had presented with the level table giving one less die and then iconics and humans getting a bonus die no one would have whined.

Actually I think heads would have exploded at least as much, maybe more ("Why do all humans get a 4 point bonus?"). It would also have created a weird missmatch trying to use that same table for things like SC3/10kB where there are only humans.

[Crafty_Alex]

I miss Iconic classes . Those feats always look gelded to me without that branch of the system.

They're cool....some just required a serious re-envisioning of how they work without Iconics to fall back on.

[Morgenstern]

They're cool....some just required a serious re-envisioning of how they work without Iconics to fall back on.

I look forward to seeing them .

Its fair to say that the original sets (back in Origin of the Species) were entirely driven by Iconic Class - ensuring that each logical class not on the 'list of 2' had a path to reach it.

[Mister Andersen]

It's worth noting official versions of many of these will be appearing in the Adventure Companion.  Plus new stuff, of course.

That's been my working assumption. As I mentioned, it's going to be interesting to see hpw the fan conversions stack up against the real thing, so I sort of need to get my fan conversion done before the real thing hits.

[MilitiaJim]

Its fair to say that the original sets (back in Origin of the Species) were entirely driven by Iconic Class - ensuring that each logical class not on the 'list of 2' had a path to reach it.

I was very happy with that, I considered the one feat price for leaving the iconic class to be quite fair.