13th Age Compatible: Dreams of Yesterday

All week long, we are sharing with you the races inside the Book of Heroic Races: Age of Races 1. Yesterday we shared with you the lizardfolk race. Today we are sharing with you the samsaran race.

Though they appear human save for their white and near-colorless eyes, a samsaran lives dozens or even hundreds of lifetimes, haunted by dreamlike memories of each incarnation. As they grow in power and experience, samsarans reconnect with these past lives, bolstering the abilities they have cultivated in this lifetime with those accrued over centuries of living and dying. Every samsaran believes that the crucible of reincarnation will eventually smelt their spirit into a state of enlightenment and drive them toward a new purpose, at which point their cycle of death and rebirth will end.

Samsaran Racial Traits

+2 Int OR +2 Wis.
Flashes Of Past Lives (Racial Power)
Choose one of the following talents: slayer (barbarian), storyteller (bard), separate existence (chaos mage), domain: healing (cleric), moment of glory (commander), power attack (fighter), flurry (monk), skeletal minion (necromancer), stance of necessity (occultist; assumes you never have focus), lay on hands (paladin), favored enemy (ranger), swashbuckle (rogue; assumes you always have momentum), counter-magic (wizard). Once per day as a full-round action, you can tap into memories of a past life, foregoing the use of one of your class talents for the duration of a single battle, encounter, or scene, and instead use the chosen talent. You use your total character level as your effective level for the purpose of determining any level-dependent variables related to these talents.
When you reach champion tier, you may choose a second talent from the above list; when you reach epic tier, you may choose a third.
Champion Feat: Using this power takes a standard action, and you can swap out two talents for the battle’s duration.

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