I'm starting a Planescape campaign and, despite us using the 2024 rules for this campaign, I wanted to allowe my players to pick the Planescape backgrounds+feats. Unfortunately, these point to the legacy versions of spells.
As a concrete example, Planar Philosopher background grants the character the Scion of the Outer Planes feat. This feat has 5 variants depending on the plane, and each variant gives the character a specific cantrip (2014 rules). The ability score for the cantrip's attack/DC is chosen by the player when they take the feat.
At first I figured I'd just homebrew a version/versions of the Scion feat that points to the 2024 cantrips instead, homebrew a new version of the Planar Philosopher background pointing to the new feat, and be good to go. Unfortunately, if you use Scion of the Outer Planes as a template for a homebrew feat....it looks like most of the actual logic is totally hidden and cannot be changed, including what cantrip it gives.
Is there a smarter way to do this? (Yes, I know I can have the player just brute force the right spell on their character sheet but I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible for the players.)
FYI in case anyone sees this later, I just brute forced creating a specific variant of the granted feat, tailored to the ability score and alignment/granted spell that the player chose. As far as I can tell, there is no way in homebrew to grant options like "pick which ability this granted spell will use".
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I'm starting a Planescape campaign and, despite us using the 2024 rules for this campaign, I wanted to allowe my players to pick the Planescape backgrounds+feats. Unfortunately, these point to the legacy versions of spells.
As a concrete example, Planar Philosopher background grants the character the Scion of the Outer Planes feat. This feat has 5 variants depending on the plane, and each variant gives the character a specific cantrip (2014 rules). The ability score for the cantrip's attack/DC is chosen by the player when they take the feat.
At first I figured I'd just homebrew a version/versions of the Scion feat that points to the 2024 cantrips instead, homebrew a new version of the Planar Philosopher background pointing to the new feat, and be good to go. Unfortunately, if you use Scion of the Outer Planes as a template for a homebrew feat....it looks like most of the actual logic is totally hidden and cannot be changed, including what cantrip it gives.
Is there a smarter way to do this? (Yes, I know I can have the player just brute force the right spell on their character sheet but I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible for the players.)
FYI in case anyone sees this later, I just brute forced creating a specific variant of the granted feat, tailored to the ability score and alignment/granted spell that the player chose. As far as I can tell, there is no way in homebrew to grant options like "pick which ability this granted spell will use".