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Racial Ability or Racial Property?

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Paragon

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As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm working on a data file for the Broken Earth setting just for the hell of it, but before I get too deep into doing the races, I thought I'd ask this.

What is the difference in function between the Racial Ability versus Racial Property entries? I thought the former were just creature powers, but I notice that the Android race I pulled up as a template has those rather than Properties.

Anyone able to enlighten me here?
 
AFAIK, the only real difference is that Racial Properties has the "Racial Edge Point Cost" field available to it. I don't see anyplace where that cost actually gets used, mind you, but maybe at some point in the future it might. So, Racial Property should be the way to go if you want those abilities to be counted when doing race creation. Otherwise I don't really think there is a difference as to which you bother using.
 
Okay. I'd been using Racial Property (even though Broken Earth doesn't spell out what value the racial abilities it ascribes to its options are), but wanted to make sure I wasn't going the wrong way here.
 
I have been using Racial Property for the same reason (it shows the cost).

I have also made it so that it will affect how many Rewards Points that characters have so that the races do not all have to cost +2, or whatever the value is by the setting. It helps to keep characters of different races more fair, and helps to alleviate the need to weaken races just to have the +2.
 
The difference is this:

Racial Abilities are the abilities for Creatures.
Racial Properties are the abilities for PC/NPC characters.

Racial Properties are for the Race Building system in the Fantasy Companion and SWD.
 
CapedCrusader said:
The difference is this:

Racial Abilities are the abilities for Creatures.
Racial Properties are the abilities for PC/NPC characters.

Racial Properties are for the Race Building system in the Fantasy Companion and SWD.
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Okay, so I went about it the right way.

Oddly, a number of listed races have Abilities rather than properties.
 
Paragon said:
Okay, so I went about it the right way.

Oddly, a number of listed races have Abilities rather than properties.
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Probably because they didn't have a cost associated with them or maybe came out before the Fantasy Companion's race rules first came into play.
 
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