I’m one of those passive backers for most projects. For Tales of the Valiant I sent Kickstarter my money to send Kobold Press and then I waited. I did this because I have enough of their products that I know I will use them. Many of their dragon variants are part of my world right now.
That also means I get fun surprises for their intermittent reveals, like the Eonics.
This new lineage (their current term for race) is a bunch of time travellers who lost their ways on the time stream, now existing your D&D/Black Flag/5e world without the ability to get back to their normal time.
They do still have minor time travelling abilities. That’s where things get fun. Their core abilities are about possibly knowing the past, their expectation that things are going to go wrong and a skin that’s been scarred by time streams. Those combine to have fun uses as monks, rogues, bards and maybe even an off-brand barbarian.
In Black Flag (Kobold Press’s SRD) and Tales of the Valiant characters are born into a lineage and grow via a heritage. Heritages are similar in power to 5e (2014) subraces, but are open to any species/race/lineage.
The eonic-themed heritages immediately become part of my world. This is time-hoppy funness.
Time-lost Drifter
Those raised as drifters have a special belt and some exhaustion based mechanics with a future-self time echo. Plus, they are hard to kill. Their body comes disconnected from time.
Inheritor of the Future
The inheritors get a super-advantage Help action and a powerful time warping staff.
Mirror Worlder
These peoples can see alternate realities and grab things from them. This is a classic trope in fantasy that hasn’t been embraced much in 5e, until now.
The Eonics and all of their heritages fit in the World of the Everflow as the peoples from the future who went back to when the gods shunted off magic from the World. They would be 3,000 years in the future from the current games, popping into a world that they helped break and create at the same time.
With these and the Tales of the Valiant goblins I’m very excited to bring more variety to my table.
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