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The overall intent is supposed to be a slow BUT REAL gain. If a character has levels in two or more classes in addition to his bloodline levels, each class gains the benefit of adding the bloodline levels when calculating abilities. The character doesn't gain any abilities, spells known, or spells per day from the addition of his bloodline levels, though-only the calculations of his level-based abilities are affected. Include the character's bloodline level when calculating any character ability based on his class levels (such as caster level for spellcasting characters, or save DCs for characters with special abilities whose DCs are based on class level). Levels of bloodline never result in XP penalties for multiclass characters. It counts as a normal class level (with no class skills) for the purpose of determining maximum skill ranks. If he takes his third bloodline level before reaching 12th character level, he becomes eligible to gain all the traits of his bloodline (as they become available when he reaches new character levels).Ī bloodline level grants no increase in base attack bonus or base save bonuses, no hit points or skill points, and no class features. Before reaching his 6th character level, he must have taken two levels of bloodline in order to keep gaining bloodline traits. If he later meets the minimum required bloodline levels, he gains his 3rd-level trait at that time (as well as any other traits he may have failed to receive for not taking his bloodline level right away), and the XP reduction no longer applies to future gains.

if he reaches 3rd character level and has no bloodline levels, he does not gain the bloodline trait due him at 3rd character level (Strength +1) and must take a 20% reduction on all future XP gains. Before he reaches 3rd character level, he must take a level of bloodline in order to continue gaining bloodline traits. When he reaches 2nd character level, he gains the Alertness feat as a bloodline trait. As soon as he meets the minimum bloodline level, he gains all bloodline abilities due him according to his character level, and the XP penalty no longer applies.įor example, A 1st-level character with a major bloodline (silver dragon) receives a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks as a bloodline trait. If the character does not take a class level of bloodline before reaching the character level indicated on the table, he gains no further bloodline traits and must take a 20% penalty on all future XP gains. Before a character with a bloodline reaches the indicated character level, he must take one class level of 'bloodline.' Class levels of 'bloodline' do not increase a character's character level the way a normal class level does, but they do provide certain benefits (see below). Instead, a bloodline character must take one or more levels of 'bloodline' at various points in his career, as noted on Table: Bloodline Levels. Because the power gain is gradual over a span of twenty levels, a static level adjustment doesn't truly reflect this difference.

Quote from: SRD: Over the course of his career, a character with a bloodline becomes more powerful than one without a bloodline.

Straight from the sources (with my bolding for mechanics and italics for intent): Like flaws, I see a small be steady gain to be made to most any build so long as we temper our reading of Bloodlines. We will know we have succeeded when: Given our reading of Bloodlines we would, if allowed, use their slight boost for any character. I will be checking this thread frequently, so go ahead and consider this thread to be THE first and fore-most CO boards accepted implementation of the Bloodlines variant, due to the thread's depth. I intend to share my interpretation to fix this problem. But the all end up conflicting themselves because they all seem (to me) to not have the RAI interpretation. In digging through various threads on Bloodlines I see people doing pretty much every possible kind of implementation of Bloodline levels based off their varying interpretations. We haven't been giving Bloodlines a fair shot at as a balanced variant rule. Quote from: My Opening Post 'Whats the final verdict? Are bloodlines horribly stupid or are they overly unbalanced? The issue seems very polarizing and I think I now know why.

Dungeon world ccc compendium class collection 1