User talk:Nolanf/Sandbox/Summersite tmp (3.5e Race)

Cyclops Expy

This race is... not good. The light detail in the various sections aside, the mechanics are poor. Its a fairly boring race with only a Con bonus and a laser to their name, and the mechanics of the laser is nearly unworkable. A Summersite with good Con would be able to pump out 4d6 fire damage 2/day, and always be caught by spell resistance since their CL is only, at max, 6th starting. The average Summersite (that is, starting with a 10) can't even use it. That's a Con bonus of +2, too low to even use the spell at all.

I see you're trying to make Cyclops, alright, fine fine. Perhaps you should make them a race with an in-build eldritch blast. Were I trying to make Cyclops I'd probably make him a warlock after all. By doing that you give them a solid, if weak, source of damage they could pull off and synergy with the actual warlock class if the blast stacks, or has some other sort of interference with it. The CL and damage would scale appropriate with level. And you can give him a series of other abilities that are more interesting that +4 Con. Cyclops isn't even all that unusually tough last I knew, he really is just a human warlock... -- Eiji-kun (talk) 12:19, 4 January 2014 (UTC)