Dragon 372 - Secrets of the City Entombed...Includes Many Necromantic Flavored Powers

[Shroomy]

Here's Animate Dead!

Dragon 372: Secrets of the City Entombed

 

[chaotix42]

Uhhhh... whoa. That's a lot of crunch to absorb. Avenger? Bard?! OMG!

Summon Black Reaper looks a little weak - the standard action attack should probably be 2d8, like the OA.

The wizard spells are sweet.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Woah, lots of Powers here. Also neat that their starting to give out links for resources, makes sense to use the online format for what advantages it gives.

 

[ppaladin123]

While flavorful, I doubt I would use most of these powers. Lots of evil things have resistance to necrotic damage. Also most of the summoning powers only allow the summoned creature to make attacks against AC. Without a weapon proficiency bonus, these aren't going to be particularly accurate attacks.

Honestly I was hoping for rituals.

 

[chaotix42]

Yeah, my knee-jerk reaction is that the summons aren't too useful. They count as allies though, and with hit points they can take some heat off of the party. Also, you don't have to sustain most of them, so if you have to leave them behind for a round or two it's not as bad as losing flaming sphere, mord's blade, etc.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I very much enjoyed the writing style of this adventure. It reminded me of Clark Ashton Smith, HP Lovecraft, and Gary Gygax.

 

[Jack99]

While flavorful, I doubt I would use most of these powers. Lots of evil things have resistance to necrotic damage. Also most of the summoning powers only allow the summoned creature to make attacks against AC. Without a weapon proficiency bonus, these aren't going to be particularly accurate attacks.

Honestly I was hoping for rituals.

I really like them, except for the to hit problem. Should be fairly easy to add a +2 or +3 to hit to the power though, putting them at par with other powers.

 

[Dionysos]

It might make more sense for hellfire soul to use Con as its attack stat instead of Charisma. Y'know, being for Infernal Pact and all.

 

[jensun]

Masters of the Planes is out as well with a whole boatload of new Epic Destinies.

 

[fissionessence]

It might make more sense for hellfire soul to use Con as its attack stat instead of Charisma. Y'know, being for Infernal Pact and all.

While I fully expect them to fix this, I really hope they don't, as it's the only warlock power [of the four] in the article that I thought was cool, and switching it to Con would make it much less useful for my character I loved a lot of these powers and really wish the warlock got something exciting like a summoning ability. And come on, no skeletons or zombies anywhere in the article?

Also, I was really hoping/thinking this was going to be the 'Necromantic Rituals' article that was on the calendar a couple weeks ago. I hope it didn't get scrapped (but suspect that it did)

Just for reference, though, I still really like the article overall, as it is full of powers (my favorite!)

~ fissionessence