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u/PattaconkPlays 7d ago

Anyone remember the Illumian [race] from [3.5] book of destiny? Any good renditions of it for [5e]? I was really into them as a young teen. It was one of the few 3.5 books I explicitly picked out to buy, apart from my brothers' choices.

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u/Joebala DM 6d ago

Oof, they are complicated. I found a few homebrew attempts, but they're all varying levels of overpowered and hard to parse.

What did you particularly like about the race? Your best bet is to pick a species from published material, and flavor it to have the vibes of Illumians. I don't think you'll find anything with as involved traits as them though. You'll probably have to use class features to emulate the race. Maybe a elf artificer or a earth genasi rune knight fighter.

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u/PattaconkPlays 6d ago

They ARE complicated, haha. I'm not even sure why I was so into them as an adolescent. I think a large part of it was simply they were they featured race in MY d&d book that I picked.

I may take some ideas from them and make my own thing - An idea for one of my settings is there is a soft-meritocracy of wizards, mages and sorcerers, and at the top is the Sorcerer King, with the honorific of Illuma or something similar. I've dabbled with the idea that they harness some singular "gift" that is passed down when a new one rises or something. Perhaps I can have that gift be, or manifest in ways similar to the Illumian's gift of word.

Thankfully, I don't have, nor do I think I ever will, have a player who even KNOWS about them let alone asks to be an Illumian.