Heroes of the Feywild: Fey Themes

Klaus · Oct 28, 2011

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Fey Themes)

The previewed theme is the Fey Beast Tamer, which gives you a fey beast companion: blink dog, displacer beast, fey panther or owlbear.

EDIT: there's an extra space in the pdf URL. Go here: www.wizards.com/dnd/files/excerpt_20111028.pdf

TwoSix · Oct 28, 2011

Klaus said:
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Fey Themes)

The previewed theme is the Fey Beast Tamer, which gives you a fey beast companion: blink dog, displacer beast, fey panther or owlbear.

EDIT: there's an extra space in the pdf URL. Go here: www.wizards.com/dnd/files/excerpt_20111028.pdf

Sold. I love it.

Kzach · Oct 28, 2011

Pretty cool. Animal Master needs some serious revision though...

Klaus · Oct 28, 2011

This theme is based on design I did for Heroes of the Feywild, and I'm very pleased with its final form. It was actually nerfed from my initial design. Kudos to Rodney and the developers!

And yay!, blink dogs are back!

Lindeloef · Oct 28, 2011

Really awesome and exactly what one of my players needs for her new character.

keterys · Oct 28, 2011

Klaus said:
This theme is based on design I did for Heroes of the Feywild, and I'm very pleased with its final form. It was actually nerfed from my initial design.

It _was_ a little strong.

It still is very solid, especially for some builds.

Of course, it's a hilarious way to drain surges from a character too. A friend of mine has a PC who just bottoms out for surges so fast (A pixie Peeka, and her Blink Dog Boo)

RangerWickett · Oct 28, 2011

I really dig it. Great design.

Drammattex · Oct 28, 2011

Ah, I remember this...

Love it!

Vael · Oct 28, 2011

That's cool. I like the new damage scaling, half level seems like a clean way to do it.

Neverfate · Oct 28, 2011

Kzach said:
Pretty cool. Animal Master needs some serious revision though...

LOL They're not even in the same league now. Hell this theme competes with actual CLASSES with a beast companion (namely Ranger and Sentinel, I think Shaman serves a different design aspect). I think this theme is incredibly well done, but it also competes with (or defeats) certain other options easily.

Keep in mind, the level 1 Encounter power for Animal Master is that you can make a creature grant CA for a turn. This theme literally gets that as a feature at level 5 in addition to the fact that your fey companion has hit points AND it's own aura to start with, where as Animal Master minions get almost nothing.