I was just thinking after reading something someone brought up...
How possible is it to give bipeds "hoard" abilities and give bipeds a "hoard" to feed?
I think it would be cool if there was a line of quests to obtain and upgrade a line of abilities specific to bipeds that required "payment" as the dragons have. It of course may be a bit harder to plan what types of abilities these might be given the diversity of the schools for bipeds but I think the idea may have merit.
Instead of a Hoard, bipeds would have a Power Pool. Drops would be included that would have Power Value (instead of Hoard Value) and feed this Power Pool.
The additional power fed abilities would need to be equal to or slightly superior to abilities of like kinds and can overwrite/be overwritten if a buff style ability. This way a player will have to choose which to use if they happen to have/be in a school with an ability that attributes the same effect.
For example. Lets say one of the power fed abilities is a damage shield. It's damage output might equal or slightly exceed that of Cloak of Thorns but lasts for only a minute or two and it's recycle may be 5 minutes. This damage shield would of course cost Power when activated. So while it would of course not be preferential to a biped capable of using Cloak of Thorns, it WOULD be useful to a biped in a class that doesn't support CoT or who never obtained the ability.
Another could be a straight forward attack much like Silver Strike and Gold Rage are supporting the various melee attack abilities (1hc, 1hp, 1hs, etc). So proficiency in a melee skill would determine the attacks effectiveness, again much like Gold Rage/Silver Strike.
Things like that. Opinions, feedback, suggestions?