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Old 10th October 2008, 08:06 AM   #21 (permalink)
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One thing that's interesting is that monk has no armor proficency but does have abilities that work with cloth armor. Feat use or errata... Probably feat use.
Which feat? There is no Armor Proficiency (Cloth) feat...

... and that's because "All characters are proficient with cloth armor", PHB p212.

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Old 10th October 2008, 04:48 PM   #24 (permalink)
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I mostly want to know how it stacks up against the APG from an editting perspective...and what the publisher's policy is on incorporating errata into PDFs.
And I hope they do more proofreading before releasing the paper version, because I downloaded the Druid Preview PDF and found mistakes such as:
(1) Under Druid, Summon Animal Companion, Wolf: "When your bear is hit by a . . . succeed, your bear is unharmed. . . . checks using your bear." (It should be "wolf" instead of "bear" in each case in that paragraph.)
(2) New Keyword "Summon" or "Summoning" (both are used): Level 1 Encounter Wilding "Courageous Companion" has the "Summoning" Keyword; Level 1 Daily Wilding "Summon Swarm" does not have either one, but has the "Conjuration" Keyword instead; Level 5 Daily Wilding "Summon Treant" has the "Summon" Keyword. It's inconsistent: if a Summons can be a Conjuration, why define a new "Summon" Keyword at all?

Personally, I would have expected a 3.5e-reminiscent 4e Druid to have Light Shield Proficiency; but I know it only costs a Feat, so no problem.

On a fluff note: what font size is used to carve 50 Rituals (using Runes) into a single Fetish? Font size 0.05? Where do Druids get the microscopes needed to read that? (Rituals take many pages each in a book.)
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And I hope they do more proofreading before releasing the paper version, because I downloaded the Druid Preview PDF and found mistakes such as:
(1) Under Druid, Summon Animal Companion, Wolf: "When your bear is hit by a . . . succeed, your bear is unharmed. . . . checks using your bear." (It should be "wolf" instead of "bear" in each case in that paragraph.)
(2) New Keyword "Summon" or "Summoning" (both are used): Level 1 Encounter Wilding "Courageous Companion" has the "Summoning" Keyword; Level 1 Daily Wilding "Summon Swarm" does not have either one, but has the "Conjuration" Keyword instead; Level 5 Daily Wilding "Summon Treant" has the "Summon" Keyword. It's inconsistent: if a Summons can be a Conjuration, why define a new "Summon" Keyword at all?

Personally, I would have expected a 3.5e-reminiscent 4e Druid to have Light Shield Proficiency; but I know it only costs a Feat, so no problem.

On a fluff note: what font size is used to carve 50 Rituals (using Runes) into a single Fetish? Font size 0.05? Where do Druids get the microscopes needed to read that? (Rituals take many pages each in a book.)
I can't comment on the proofreading because I'm not involved in that, but in terms of "font size," I think druids are more likely to create individual symbols that represent their rituals, rather than carving numerous words on their implements.
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I can't comment on the proofreading because I'm not involved in that, but in terms of "font size," I think druids are more likely to create individual symbols that represent their rituals, rather than carving numerous words on their implements.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm personally going to interpret that to mean that the runes on the implements are reminders/boasting, and that each F.H. Druid needs to buy a Ritual Book out of their starting 100 gp in order to hold the actual content of their known Rituals, thus: Ritual Book (50 gp) + Hide Armor (30 gp) + Standard Adventurer's Kit (15 gp) = 95 gp, leaving 5 gp for a weapon -- and each of the listed weapons costs 5 gp or less.
That works for me. (It even reflects the feel of 3.5e Druids' having less starting wealth than some other classes.)
(I would much rather interpret it that way than to think that Druids do not need to read their rituals in order to cast them.)
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Which feat? There is no Armor Proficiency (Cloth) feat...

... and that's because "All characters are proficient with cloth armor", PHB p212.

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That's a very good point. However, it's also listed with every character class. More importantly, and what I was thinking, was "If a specific rule contradicts a general rule, the specific rule wins." Not listing cloth armor as a valid armor type... oversight or class design?
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That's a very good point. However, it's also listed with every character class. More importantly, and what I was thinking, was "If a specific rule contradicts a general rule, the specific rule wins." Not listing cloth armor as a valid armor type... oversight or class design?
Obviously an oversight, because there is no Armor Proficiency (Cloth) feat in the PHB. So even if you wanted to train your monk in cloth armour (assuming it was purposeful design), you wouldn't be able to.
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Obviously an oversight, because there is no Armor Proficiency (Cloth) feat in the PHB. So even if you wanted to train your monk in cloth armour (assuming it was purposeful design), you wouldn't be able to.
And yet instead of being blank, under armor profiency it says "None."

That's a pretty specific call no?
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And yet instead of being blank, under armor profiency it says "None."

That's a pretty specific call no?
Re: "Forgotten Heroes" Monk and/or Cloth Armor Proficiency:
Could they be drawing a fine distinction between Proficiency and Training?

In looking at the F.H. Druid Preview PDF, I see that they list "Weapon Proficiencies," but list "Armor Training" instead of "Armor Proficiencies" -- could this mean that they hold that the Monk possesses Cloth Armor Proficiency without having had to take specific Training to get it?
(Or am I imagining too fine a point?)
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Re: "Forgotten Heroes" Monk and/or Cloth Armor Proficiency:
Could they be drawing a fine distinction between Proficiency and Training?

In looking at the F.H. Druid Preview PDF, I see that they list "Weapon Proficiencies," but list "Armor Training" instead of "Armor Proficiencies" -- could this mean that they hold that the Monk possesses Cloth Armor Proficiency without having had to take specific Training to get it?
(Or am I imagining too fine a point?)
It's a good question but I don't know.
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I prefer the Occam's Razor explanation. They just forgot to mention that Monks are proficient with Cloth, just like every other class.
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I prefer the Occam's Razor explanation. They just forgot to mention that Monks are proficient with Cloth, just like every other class.
Sure. That's easily possible. But the specific reference of None as opposed to just leaving off like it was on other classes...
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Sure. That's easily possible. But the specific reference of None as opposed to just leaving off like it was on other classes...
I take it each class has an armour training line, so do they look like this?

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And yet instead of being blank, under armor profiency it says "None."

That's a pretty specific call no?
Not a specific call, but a specific error. Because if you do not have cloth armour proficiency, there is no way to acquire it; there is no Armor Proficiency (Cloth) feat in the PHB. And since some powers refer to cloth armour, clearly the class is intended to be able to have such proficiency.
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I take it each class has an armour training line, so do they look like this?

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Armour Training: None.

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Yes. On some of them it includes cloth, and on those it doesn't, I'd be willing to say that yeah, if you have leather, then you have cloth, but when it specifically says, "None"...
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Yes. On some of them it includes cloth, and on those it doesn't, I'd be willing to say that yeah, if you have leather, then you have cloth, but when it specifically says, "None"...
I'd say that it's a bad editing error. How many designers were there? If someone didn't realise they had to include cloth, then if you don't have proficiency in leather, hide, etc. then obviously they're proficient with "None".

Either that, or you have a lot of naked monks running around in their campaigns...

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I'd say that it's a bad editing error. How many designers were there? If someone didn't realise they had to include cloth, then if you don't have proficiency in leather, hide, etc. then obviously they're proficient with "None".

Either that, or you have a lot of naked monks running around in their campaigns...

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I think it was more a matter of someone saying, "Monks don't wear armor," and then listing none in their proficiency section. It is definitely an error, and one we'll be fixing in our upcoming errata.
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