Neverwinter Theme Previews

Saracenus · Aug 3, 2011

Kinneus said:
Hmm. If I'm playing something wacky, like a Dragonborn Battlemind or something, it seems my only options for Neverwinter themes are Harper Agent, Devil's Pawn, Oghma's Faithful, and Spellscarred Harbinger. 4 options isn't terrible, but still, I feel like they may've gone overboard with the restrictions.

Actually, the Themes are centered on Neverwinter and not the entire Forgotten Realms so some place specific material is expected and desirable. These are not generic Themes like we got in the eDragon (I liked them too, but by their very nature don't have a ton of background flavor).

If you look at a few, the are not specifically for Essentials because several mention classes outside the Essentials, I remember Bards specifically.

Here is the other thing, if you don't like a restriction and can justify a change, make a change.

My Two Coppers,

mudlock · Aug 3, 2011

Kinneus said:
Renegade Red Wizard is very disappointing for me [...] Also, I'm not sure why they decided to restrict it strictly to Mages, when Arcanists seem to fit the flavor just fine.

If you recall, in 3e Red Wizards were required to be school-specialized, and became even MORE school specialized w/ the prestige class. (I never touched the FR setting before 3e, so I don't know how far back that precedent runs.)

So I don't think it's thematically inappropriate to require the school-specialized wizard (AKA the mage) for the theme.

Mirtek · Aug 3, 2011

WillOH said:
Perhaps LFR will be adding themes as an option in the future?

They just did

Neonchameleon · Aug 4, 2011

Kinneus said:
Also, I'm not sure why they decided to restrict it strictly to Mages, when Arcanists seem to fit the flavor just fine. I can only guess that [tin foil hat] this is Wizards continuing the "play Essentials please, nothing to see in the original PHB, continue along" tactic [/tin foil hat].

mudlock said:
If you recall, in 3e Red Wizards were required to be school-specialized, and became even MORE school specialized w/ the prestige class. (I never touched the FR setting before 3e, so I don't know how far back that precedent runs.)

So I don't think it's thematically inappropriate to require the school-specialized wizard (AKA the mage) for the theme.

More is explained in The Red Wizard Preview. In 3.5 the Red Wizard was required to give up a school in addition to specialising. This has been continued in 4e where the Red Wizard gets benefits that replace the Apprentice and Expert mage features of their second school. And the school specialisation even triggers in their fifth level ability- you can only swap into your one specialised school.

Herschel · Aug 4, 2011

Mirtek said:
They just did

Sweet! Five sessions at Gen Con the next three days just got some goodness. Time to update the character sheet!

S'mon · Aug 4, 2011

Mengu said:
Dark skin (of varying tones from olive to mahogany to black) are all over Faerun, Chult, Calimshan, Turmish (Vilhon Reach), Anauroch, Mulhorand, etc.

I was thinking more about race than skin tone. AFAICT most of the nations you list are middle-Eastern analogues (quasi-Araby, quasi-Babylon etc), there's no Africa analogue except maybe Chult?

To put it another way: If I want a quasi-African PC, where do they/their ancestors come from? Chult?

Peraion Graufalke · Aug 4, 2011

S'mon said:
To put it another way: If I want a quasi-African PC, where do they/their ancestors come from? Chult?

Looks like it. I didn't own any Chult-focused sourcebooks or adventures, but according to Wikipedia that's where pseudo-African humans live. Mulhorand would be quasi-Egypt, if I'm not mistaken.

Pour · Aug 4, 2011

Kind of related, did you guys see this sweet video for the upcoming Game Day / Encounters season... Neverwinter

Neverwinter Theme Previews

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