Can algor frost giants become nightbanes?

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Can algor frost giants become nightbanes?

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Cuz I wanna make one
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No. Nightbane is a race of beings onto themselves. Kinda like asking if a frost giant can become a spirit of light.
It is possible that a Nightbane could have a Morphus much like a Algor Frost Giant, but not for either one to actually be the other.

Also, probably more of a Palladium Fantasy or Nightbane question.
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Armorlord wrote:No. Nightbane is a race of beings onto themselves. Kinda like asking if a frost giant can become a spirit of light.
It is possible that a Nightbane could have a Morphus much like a Algor Frost Giant, but not for either one to actually be the other.

Also, probably more of a Palladium Fantasy or Nightbane question.


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Between the Shadows pg 142 wrote:Nightbanes and Other Races: The Facade of a Nightbane can belong to any non-supernatural humanoid (and humansized) race, although most (90%) Nightbane are human. This includes such races as Elves, Dwarves, True Atlaneans, and similar human-like races. No supernatural race (includes races with supernatural strength, large amounts of S.D.C. (100+) or any mega-damage beings or creatures of magic) are never Nightbane.


I'm not familiar with the Algor Frost Giants, but there are the guidelines for a Rifts race Nightbane Facades
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Why not just make a gigantes using nightbane traits as its mutations?
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Mercdog wrote:Why not just make a gigantes using nightbane traits as its mutations?


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That would be very interesting.
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RRRAWWW, Me NO GIANT, YOU JUST TINY PERSON.
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Mercdog wrote:Why not just make a gigantes using nightbane traits as its mutations?

Yes it is quite the coolest idea. Or you can make them as biotic. That would be cool too. Combine both would be tad excessive perhaps.(a Biotic Giant with nightbanish traits...add a radioactive breath and we have a Kajiu level monster!!)
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Can algor frost giants become nightbanes?


No! frost giants can not "become""change into" a nightbane.

No, Nightbane can not have a 'Giant' facade, nightbane can only have a human facade page 162 RDC.

According to Between the shadows if the facade is other then human, it has to meet three things: human sized, not SN or CoM, and have less then 100 SDC in their facade (I am thinking this to be the racial average of the race the facade is shaped as.)
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But you could have a Nightspawn that had a Frost Giant Morphus.
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Zer0 Kay wrote:But you could have a Nightspawn that had a Frost Giant Morphus.

That could be done...


IF


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