I was thinking, if Lucidians have level 3 blunt vulnerability because of the inflexibility of their bodies, it makes sense that they would also have a resistance to cutting, since that is the physics of things. A rock doesn't get cut easily but it gets shattered.

That said, since they're supposed to be smart, maybe lucidians and trill should get faster eq?

Ok, just ignore me

Okay, I'll go ahead and ignore you.

On another topic: Taurians should be relatively immune to damage when enraged!

tehe I love your single-handed attempts at upgrading the sucky races Jel

and the cutting thing makes sense to me

maybe make rage better, but also make it so they have that thing where they don't notice when they take damage...

That's a great idea in my opinion. Make them more resistant to all damages but make it almost like a reverse Wounds. Instead of your health appearing as if its much lower than it is, make it appear like it's much higher than it should.

Enrage causing recklessness thusly producing in a Taurian a berserker? Such an innovative idea. .

Edit: Um, time to un-hijack the thread, methinks. Trill... no! No greater balance recovery, just give them 13 cont and 10 charisma instead. That would be a good improvement, imo. Lucidians, they should smash no matter what, they are glass so they should be very weak against physical damage.

Trill are supposed to be fragile though, hollow bones and the rest. Giving them better con than humans wouldn't really fit the rp though it wouldn't unbalance the race either.

It makes sense the Trill are very charismatic, they look like angels. Also makes sense they are frail, having hollow bones.

It makes sense, not taking balance issues into account.

Their skin is crystalline, it's not made of glass. But it isn't as hard as a rock neither, Jello.

Perhaps not fer thae girly man lucidians like yersel'

Definetely some cutting resistence should be implemented, because you can't say we have level THREE weakness to blunt due to our crystalness yet are still as susceptible as flesh to being sliced. Really, how do you cut open a crystal? A laser maybe...

Also, we don't really need a faster equilibrium, even though it makes sense. An additional intelligence point would be fine.

Lastly, I also agree with the girly man lucidian comment.

How do you cut a crystal? It's very easy... if you cut on the right plane. But really, if you want to ask that question, a better one is, how do you move as a crystal, how do you eat, how do you breathe? When you've chosen an answer, use that as your answer for the "how do you cut" question too.

Well you see, the body is not one large crystal, it is a multitude of miniature crystals that are connected in the same sort of way as the bones in your hand, but with many, many joints. The rest is magic.

And fine, then. Make it so that cutting damage is completely nulled except for every one in 50 hits that instead of doing nothing would instead do massive damage and critical deep wounds. Happy?

The point was that crystaline creatures should be at least a little more resistant that normal flesh, which as we all know slices open quite easily. I'm not trying to say we are completely resistant, just that a crystalline person should be more resistant than a fleshy.

And don't worry, there are only a few lucidians in the realm, this will not have a particularly detrimental effect on your blademastery if it is implemented.

Here we go, a quote from the lucidian description on the website:

So, yes, the way they are able to be a crystaline creature is through magic.

On another note, why does the mini-picture of a trill appear on the lucidian button in the races screen?

Make enrage last like numbing. When enrage wears off, they get slammed with all the damage at once, minus like, 30 percent.

The point wasn't that there wasn't an answer, Archthron, it's that the answer also answers your question.

So what you're saying is you cut a crystal with magic, yes? Which is wrong, because in fact lucidians are resistant to magic, and would have no effect on physical cutting to boot.

Trill > u

No, he means that the same magic that means their skin is flexible etc. is what makes them cutting vulnerable.

...obviously it doesn't apply now, but it could have.

Ah, to heck with it. The right argument isn't getting anywhere, so how about the wrong one. Might be more persuasive to those who don't get the right one.

Crystals are very vulnerable to cleaving along certain planes, and very resistant to it along others. Depending on the crystal structure (of which there are dozens that occur in nature), some may be resistant in more planes than vulnerable, or vulnerable in more planes than resistant. A more apt depiction of a crystalline lifeform would shrug off many cutting attacks but the ones that hit would be far, far more deadly. In other words, the damage would neither be increased nor reduced, but instead moved towards extremes.