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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4586292" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p>Well, our Bag of Tricks cannot be broken down into residuum. I'd just have it vanish if they tried. But the balance issue is something i'm trying to work out. It's a pretty damn powerful bag. Potentially pulling a lion and bear to fight at your side (and they're not minions) in the same encounter is a pretty big deal (although they're not as powerful as a real lion or bear) </p><p></p><p>The drawbacks are fourfold: </p><p></p><p>1) That lion just cost you 3 healing surges.</p><p>2) You still use your minor actions to control it.</p><p>3) The bag has a weekly quota of animals that can be pulled. </p><p>4) Animals cannot be used to flank or opportunity attack. They're magical </p><p> conjurations that do just what it says on their card and nothing else (I </p><p> made a laminated card for each animal that details its abilities; they're </p><p> stuffed in Crown Royal bag)</p><p></p><p>So the bag is not tied to the 4e daily rules at all, but exists wholly outside of them as something above and beyond what the PCs would normally be able to do. To me, that feels like magic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 4586292, member: 31465"] Well, our Bag of Tricks cannot be broken down into residuum. I'd just have it vanish if they tried. But the balance issue is something i'm trying to work out. It's a pretty damn powerful bag. Potentially pulling a lion and bear to fight at your side (and they're not minions) in the same encounter is a pretty big deal (although they're not as powerful as a real lion or bear) The drawbacks are fourfold: 1) That lion just cost you 3 healing surges. 2) You still use your minor actions to control it. 3) The bag has a weekly quota of animals that can be pulled. 4) Animals cannot be used to flank or opportunity attack. They're magical conjurations that do just what it says on their card and nothing else (I made a laminated card for each animal that details its abilities; they're stuffed in Crown Royal bag) So the bag is not tied to the 4e daily rules at all, but exists wholly outside of them as something above and beyond what the PCs would normally be able to do. To me, that feels like magic. [/QUOTE]
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