![]() ![]() Moving in Ynglet is at once both tight and loose, its freefall floating sitting in sharp relief to its fast, angular dashes. ![]() There's a real sense of playfulness here, from the bursts of colour that light up the screen when you slide across new shape clusters to the reactive sound system that crackles and froths with gleeful little plinks and ploops as you scuttle toward the goal. While small in number, Ynglet's eight worlds grow and evolve with satisfying complexity, with each one adding new kinks and wrinkles until they're all layered up into the most delicious of microbial sandwiches. ![]() Rather, this is a game about using what's in front of you to carve a path through the world's amorphous structures, bouncing yourself off blue barriers, weaving through red fences, zipping to different locations using strange, wirey trains, and, occasionally, getting your pals to uncover hidden, invisible routes whose shapes have an uncanny resemblance to the shape of a lemon. Eventually you'll learn to dash, giving you the ability to launch yourself in any direction you please and cross even larger gaps and obstacles, but that's pretty much the extent of your own abilities. Instead of jumping between these strange, cell-like shapes, you must simply propel yourself forward, flinging yourself across the gaps with nothing but the momentum of your long, snakey body. It's a platformer without any platforms, and it's probably the most delightful 90 minute adventure you'll play all year. As you slither across this newfound land, portals gradually open up to eight worlds of floating shapes that fizz and pop with light, music and colour. As you and your fellow microbe-like pals watch a meteor hurtling towards your tiny home on the TV, a new world erupts the carnage - and it looks awfully like a cartoon town map you might find at your local tourist office. Ynglet is proof that great things can come from terrible, world-ending disasters. If we tally up the scores the seeking yinglet comes out to 32 points on the DB scale and the preening yinglet is at 30 points.Īgain as a note the Yinglet is a creation of Valsalia I've simply converted them into a 5e compatible race and wanted to share and also get feedback on what people think of the balancing of getting long rest benefits from a short rest.Ynglet is a brief but bold anti-platformer that delights in the art of travel, and is a pure, unbridled joy from start to finish. Other than these unique traits I took the Kobold's traits from Volo's Guide and split them between the two subraces. Negative ASI made perfect sense because yinglets are small, frail, stupid creatures and it helps to balance out the grossly powerful Power-nap some may not agree but it fits the flavour Next we have Full Sprint mostly a ribbon ability although useful in more niche circumstances, I value this as +2 pointsįor the seeking yinglets we have Spear Circle is inspired directly from the Val'Salia Field Guide and is pretty powerful especially for melee characters so I value this as a +8įor the preening yinglets Distress Cry was inspired by this one giving advantage for a full 10 rounds is a lot but since it is only against one creature and you can't choose when it triggers I count this as a +8 also I considered forcing con saves for staying awake for more than 8 hours at a time with a DC equal to 10 + 1 for each additional hour they try to stay up and on a failed save give a point of exhaustion (inspired by the Forced March rules) but I thought that exhaustion was too extreme of a negative and that whole concept would require more accurate timekeeping on the players part. Lets start with the big one Power-Nap is a super powerful racial ability especially for caster classes in terms of Detect Balance I value this as +30 points, its significantly more powerful than a feat. Now I'd like to explain my reasoning for a few things: Here is the link to it on the homebrewery A few fans of the comic had taken to calling them 'Kobold 2.0' and after discovering this I simply had to have them in my world. I recently stumbled upon a comic Out-Of-Placers by Valsalia and simply loved the race they had created known as the yinglet. So a little bit of background before I get to the race itself. ![]()
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