Add an Ash Corruption Mechanic to Bonecollectors

[Ser Shroom]

Entirely self-serving, however this is an issue I have encountered and seen others encounter when playing either undead PC's or necromancers. There is an absolute dearth of healing items for undead. This makes it difficult to keep your animations alive during events, quests, or just roaming around.

To counteract this a little I'd suggest giving bone collectors the ability to 'exchange' healing ash for inflicting ash of equal strength. i.e. one bag with 12 charges of cure moderate wounds becomes 1 bag of 12 charges of inflict moderate wounds.

If there are any concerns about balance around spamming them in PvP they can be annotated to say they are strictly for healing yourself / your undead, and are not to be used against others in PvP.

For your consideration!

[sankarul]

I think, personally, that lower level ash would be entirely fair. But stuff like the purple ash could be pretty dangerous if it is possible to use it on others, as that debuff gets scary in the serious and critical versions of inflict wound.  So with that 'only to be used on undead' marker, I think it would be fine.

[Vlaid]

I think this could be a good idea, even purple ash would be fine based on its rarity. Just give corrupted ash an obvious evil emote text when used that signals yourself as an evil bone man when used.

If you really wanted to make it so it could only be used on undead I'm sure that could likewise be accomplished using a unique power of some kind rather than the inflict spells to circumvent the worry of it all.

This could also be locked away in a kind of veteran Bonecollector's lounge for DM wanding actual necromancers and not visiting mayflowers searching for a little perk they can abuse also.

[VanillaPudding]

Wouldn't mind seeing this expanded to potions even. It forces the creator of the undead to play an animation for the henchman to drink it anyway, so it is kind of a give / take with potions but expands the options at least.

[Bearic]

Might be able to do something similar at least.