Pretender Balance Mod

[Scott Hebert]

As suggested elsewhere, I'm going to try to make a mod that more evenly balances the Pretenders against each other. What I'm going to do is change the criteria on how to assign Starting Dominion to Pretenders.

All Immortal, Undead, and SC (Wyrm and Nataraja, mainly) Pretenders will be given a 1 Starting Dominion.

All Giant/Titan Pretenders will be given a 2 Starting Dominion.

All Rainbow (basically, the humans)and Immobile Pretenders will be given a 4 starting Dominion.

The relatively few leftovers (those that don't fit into any of the above categories, like the Virtue) will be given a 3 Starting Dominion.

Does this make thematic sense? Probably not (though you can make a case for it). It will certainly improve the lot of the human Pretenders, though. The rubric behind the above selections was to try to inversely relate combat potential (as in, SC-style melee combat) and dominion strength.

Anyway, I'll work it up, and then see if anything needs tweaking.