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Review of Kobold Quarterly Issue #20 (Winter 2012) by Open Design
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<blockquote data-quote="Neuroglyph" data-source="post: 7648185" data-attributes="member: 85633"><p>I completely agree - the Pathfinder and AGE articles are getting very good, and showing some real innovation. However, my disappointment with the two 4E articles could have been alleviated if the content would have adhered to acceptable character design parameters, of which we have ample enough examples after three PHBs, a half dozen Powers books, Dragon articles, and "Heroes of the..." sourcebooks.</p><p></p><p>For instance, the article on Bardic Arts could have been designed as a theme, allowing power substitutions at appropriate levels. And the article on Minotaur, Tiefling, and Gnome racial powers could have worked by having the utility powers containing attacks changed into more appropriate buffs and debuffs. Recent rules from Heroes of Shadow and Heroes of the Feywild demonstrate the sorts of powers one expects to see in a racial utility powers.</p><p></p><p>The point is that the editorial process could have fixed these, or at least guided the authors into making voluntary changes in order to bring the content in line appropriate to the 4E ruleset and precedence. Sadly, the process failed, and so did the articles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neuroglyph, post: 7648185, member: 85633"] I completely agree - the Pathfinder and AGE articles are getting very good, and showing some real innovation. However, my disappointment with the two 4E articles could have been alleviated if the content would have adhered to acceptable character design parameters, of which we have ample enough examples after three PHBs, a half dozen Powers books, Dragon articles, and "Heroes of the..." sourcebooks. For instance, the article on Bardic Arts could have been designed as a theme, allowing power substitutions at appropriate levels. And the article on Minotaur, Tiefling, and Gnome racial powers could have worked by having the utility powers containing attacks changed into more appropriate buffs and debuffs. Recent rules from Heroes of Shadow and Heroes of the Feywild demonstrate the sorts of powers one expects to see in a racial utility powers. The point is that the editorial process could have fixed these, or at least guided the authors into making voluntary changes in order to bring the content in line appropriate to the 4E ruleset and precedence. Sadly, the process failed, and so did the articles. [/QUOTE]
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