Lesser/Greater base species

Making a fey force and it talks about lesser base species and greater base species, but I do not see where it says what is the difference? My guess is lesser is with only level 1 traits, and greater is with all traits, but as I said do not see where it says.

Also what is the difference between casting and channeling?

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Ravenousminiatures.com

May 28, 2021

just going to add an example.

you make a fey madness sphere faction

faction/species traits

tier one trait

tier 2 trait

you make class one (lesser)

it gets the factions 1st tier traits

you make a class 3 (greater)

it gets the 1st tier and 2nd tier faction traits

natfka

May 22, 2021

Ah OK. We are very much talking about the same thing. You can see on the Creating a Sample Faction (page 36).

Lesser Fey are class levels 1-2

Greater Fey are class levels 3+

The real difference is that if you have (3) 1st tier Traits and (2) 2nd Tier traits for your faction the lesser Fey only have access to the 3 first tier traits. They do not pay the point cost for the 2nd Tier traits even if they are part of the Faction Traits.

Your Base Faction consists of all traits. The reason you see them totaled for each there is to show that this is the base point costs for your Lesser and Greater Fey

cdat19ker Vet

May 23, 2021

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So just to make sure I am understanding you, when it says lesser base species or Greater base species this goes back to your base species and lesser only includes level one traits, greater is both level one and level two traits (each one paying for only the traits they get)? If you did not take any level two traits you only have a lesser base species, does this mean that you can not make a class that is built off of the greater base species?

natfka

May 24, 2021

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@cdat19ker Vet You can still make your greater classes. They just do not start off with any 2nd Tier Traits.

cdat19ker Vet

May 22, 2021

It was not the classes that I had a question about (or at least I did not think I did), but the base species that you make the classes from. So just to make sure that I am reading that right, base species does not really make a difference, it is only the end class? P48 talks about the classes, but does not cover the lesser or greater base species. My Fey force that I am working on the base unit has no 2nd tier traits or powers, so does that mean I do not have a greater base species? If I do not have a greater base species does that mean I can only make level 1 and 2 classes?

natfka

May 22, 2021

Lesser and Greater Classes for the Fey are mentioned on page 48 for reference.

Channeling is the a method used to affect, bolster, or help your casting. See page 31 for Humanoid Arcane Casters and page 33 for Faith Casters. Channeling is added to your die roll and its done in many different ways.