Black Flag Tales of the Valiant is out (in PDF)! What do people think?

[Reynard]

Can you point it out?

I can't find it now. it is certainly possible I misinterpreted something. Mostly I was curious if ToV referenced any SRDs/works besides the 5.1 SRD in CC.

 

[ART!]

Not crazy about making gnomes and halflings into traits of the same lineages, but I get the reasoning. I just feel like there's a better way to do that, but maybe it requires an approach to races that would deviate too far from 5E to be compatible.

 

[Marc Radle]

I can't find it now. it is certainly possible I misinterpreted something. Mostly I was curious if ToV referenced any SRDs/works besides the 5.1 SRD in CC.

I suspect you may have misinterpreted something.

 

[Bladesinger]

I had a question that I think got lost up-thread - Does the Paladin get the Find Steed Ritual? Because it doesn't seem like they do, yet Cleric, Druid, and even eventually Ranger can get it.

 

[Distracted DM]

I had a question that I think got lost up-thread - Does the Paladin get the Find Steed Ritual? Because it doesn't seem like they do, yet Cleric, Druid, and even eventually Ranger can get it.

Looks like they don't. Paladins don't get rituals unless you take the Ritual Caster talent.

 

[Distracted DM]

Talents. Feats. Something that hasn't come up yet!
The "Only 75 feats, not nearly enough" 5eRevised thread made me think about how TotV has changed something important.

When a character gets an Improvement, they either get the usual +1+1/+2 OR a +1 and a Talent.
Talents are restricted by class. They appear to be very similar or the same as 5e feats.

So characters will ALWAYS get a +1 in addition to a feat? Seems like a big boost.

The talents are sort of gated by character options that grant access, mainly class?

So yes, Talents are a different way of doing Feats.. and that means that TotV characters end up getting extra stat boosts alongside talents, if they so choose.

 

[Zaukrie]

Hopefully they fix the index in the PDF, since all the classes are under "spellcasting classes", which, again, nitpick.

 

[Zaukrie]

Looks like they don't. Paladins don't get rituals unless you take the Ritual Caster talent.

It's even funnier since one of the art pieces shows them on a mount.....

 

[Marc Radle]

I had a question that I think got lost up-thread - Does the Paladin get the Find Steed Ritual? Because it doesn't seem like they do, yet Cleric, Druid, and even eventually Ranger can get it.

They do not. It was a hard choice, but a choice to be made. Especially because the playtest feedback was clear---modern paladin players really don't use mounts--even magical ones! (def weird for us old school players to wrap our heads around, but the data was clear).

HOWEVER, there are also a LOT of ways/options folks can take to get access to ritual spells if they are one of the rare paladin players who can't live without the ability to cast find steed

With the huge array of heritage, lineage, talent, subclass, combos and more (including the Ritual Caster talent mentioned earlier) ....it is more than doable to make it happen (edited)

Paladins can also now use spell scrolls to cast any Divine spell they want---including find steed

 

[Marc Radle]

It's even funnier since one of the art pieces shows them on a mount.....

Well, no one said a paladin can't still ride a horse!