Urban Arcana Questions, Comments & Complaints

[Buddha the DM]

Dragons... They nuetered them so to speak.. They removed the Metallic Dragons primary breath weapons, removed the ability to polymorph from the dragons that could (although Wynn [pg 188] of the Knights of the Silver Dragon strangely still possesses this ability)..

This begs the question of:

Why'd they do this to the dragons?

Most of the other changes they made to dragons are relatively minor and forgivable.

 

[Buddha the DM]

Are feats that grant a class skill to a character affected by starting occupations?

I ask because I was working on a Smart Hero 3/Mage 6/Archmage 2 who has the Hedge Wizard Starting Occupation and the Arcane Skills feat. The arcane skills feat grants the skills that are described under the Mage AdC (Conc, Spellcraft & Craft (Chemical)) as class skills. As for the Hedge Wizard part of this I have selected Concentration as a class skill. Now does the Novitiate part of the character grant a +1 to all Concentration checks because of the feat or not?


Edit: Had the wrong starting occupation listed.

 

[JPL]

Dragons... They nuetered them so to speak.. They removed the Metallic Dragons primary breath weapons, removed the ability to polymorph from the dragons that could (although Wynn [pg 188] of the Knights of the Silver Dragon strangely still possesses this ability)..

This begs the question of:

Why'd they do this to the dragons?

Most of the other changes they made to dragons are relatively minor and forgivable.

Maybe they were trying to limit the power of the metallics, so the PCs have to do more of the smiting?

As for polymorph...beats me. Cooler to explore the problems associated with hiding your big draconic self in the year 2003?

 

[Buddha the DM]

maybe but i somehow expected the dragons to be somewhat the same as in 3e. not lacking some key abilities that we've come to expect.

 

[Dismas]

Are feats that grant a class skill to a character affected by starting occupations?

I ask because I was working on a Smart Hero 3/Mage 6/Archmage 2 who has the Novitiate Starting Occupation and the Arcane Skills feat. The arcane skills feat grants the skills that are described under the Mage AdC (Conc, Spellcraft & Craft (Chemical)) as class skills. As for the Novitiate part of this I have selected Concentration as a class skill. Now does the Novitiate part of the character grant a +1 to all Concentration checks because of the feat or not?

The best place to post this is WoTC Urbana Arcana message board. Add [WOOF!] at the begining of the thread title and Charles Ryan will drop by give you an official answer (might have to wait until monday though) .

 

[Buddha the DM]

Will see about doing that when I get home seeing as how I don't remember the password that the WotC Boards assigned me.

 

[Benedict]

Half-Dragon breath weapons

Take a look at the table describing the breath weapons of half-dragons. The good aligned half-dragons got hosed. Remember that breath weapons are the only thing that half-dragons have that are not common to all other half-dragons.

The evil (chromatic) half-dragons can shell out some serious damage, that is HALVED by a save. The good (metallic) half-dragons get effects that are cancelled by a save. The gold half-dragon gets a 30' cone of STR reduction... tempory loss of 1d2 points of str... oh, yeah, that balances well against the red half-dragon getting 6d10.

benedict

 

[Croaker]

Biofeedback=DR?

What is the point of stating that Biofeedback changes some portion of damage dealt to nonlethal damage? Unless the victim has a strength modifier greater than their Constitution score, the net effect is identical to damage reduction. By dumping the concept of subdual damage in favor of the whacky (I will refrain from attacking this concept further) nonlethal damage concept, Biofeedback is much more powerful in d20 Modern than in D&D. Any comments?

 

[Felon]

The best place to post this is WoTC Urbana Arcana message board. Add [WOOF!] at the begining of the thread title and Charles Ryan will drop by give you an official answer (might have to wait until monday though) .

Well, I keep hearing people suggest this course of action, so I posted my questions to the UA board three days ago. Not only haven't I received any kind of official response, but the replies I did get were quite assanine. I didn't include the WOOF notation though, so I'll try again. Thanks for the tip.