#primal path
Hey all! Been a bit. Progress on greater aspirations has been slow going. I’ve really been struggling with my mental health lately and it’s been difficult to work on anything. But I’m doing better now, so lets have a look at something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.
I think it was a couple years ago that I did a subclass based on the Warframe Chroma. At the time, I was pretty happy with it overall. But as many people quickly pointed out, I left out acid as an element. Originally this was done very deliberately and I had no intention of changing it, reason being Chroma only has 4 elements and acid isn’t one of them. Now, had I made the subclass exclusively as part of a Warframe themed setting or supplement, that would have been fine and justifiable, but I made it for D&D as a whole and specifically linked it to the chromatic dragons, of which there are five not four. I’ve since pulled my head of of my ass and realized how stupid I was being. I’ve always been a stickler for source accuracy but I admit I can go too far sometimes, and my work can suffer for it. It’s a balancing act for sure, and one I’m still learning to deal with.
So what’s actually changed with this version? Well, I basically rewrote the whole thing from scratch so, uh, everything. Chroma’s had a few major changes since the original brew so I had quite a bit to redo and everything else just needed reworded to be clearer. Some of my early stuff is kinda janky so eventually I’d like to redo all of my old work. Some of them desperatelyneed it…
Honestly I had a really hard time formatting this one. Finding a suitable theme was difficult, the art was belligerent, and things didn’t want to line up right. But I got it in the end and overall I’m pretty satisfied with it. I also kept bouncing back and forth between names for it, as you might pick up from the Sneak Peak. Path of the Dragon has a better feel and rolls off the tongue better but the subclass exclusively deals with the chromatics so I didn’t want the name to mislead.
Funny story, when I was brainstorming ways to rework this subclass, I thought about extending it to all dragons and incorporating elements from Fizban’s but honestly that would be WAY more work than I care to do right now and at that point it wouldn’t be Chroma anymore. I have to draw the line somewhere, but hey, something for the future. Anyway, hope y'all like the rework.
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