TRAILBLAZER - PDF Release - Discussion/Questions/Errata
Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
We gave the quarterstaff the trip quality.
And the quarterstaff can be used against an adjacent foe, it's a double weapon, and it's cheaper and easier to replace.
Danke.
And, in Jet Li's hands, a quarterstaff is also reach weapon.
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
A very, very late addition courtesy of Glassjaw.
You have him to thank for lots of cool little "improvements" that wouldn't have hit my radar as a problem worth dealing with. (That includes the half-elf and half-orc changes, too.)
EDIT: To answer Jasin, I don't recall the last wuxia-style movie I saw that didn't feature a spear.
mach1.9pants
Hero
I finally finished the PfRPG Core Book so I powered up the eReader and DAGNAMMIT, I forgot to charge it. Page 2 and it powers off ...
...waiting waiting
EDIT: can't wait, plugged it in the USB charger and I am sitting next to my PC
...waiting waiting
EDIT: can't wait, plugged it in the USB charger and I am sitting next to my PC
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Scurvy_Platypus
Explorer
I'm thinking of simply lifting a number of the Rogue's Talents from Pathfinder:Rogue
Depending on how you plan on setting up/running your game (Pathfinder as the base or Trailblazer), you've got some flexibility. If you're using Pathfinder as a base, you could have a 3 tier system:
Fighter can apply the condition, Rogue applies the condition on a Sneak Attack, everyone else can buy into the Critical Focus feat chain and apply it on a Critical strike.
As far as giving it to the fighters is concerned, you also have a couple of choices.
First is to simply add the Talents to the Fighter class as another class ability. Next is to fold it in under Expert Weapon Proficiency, giving more things for a Fighter to spend their picks on and effectively capping the number of Talents a Fighter can have. Last option is to allow Fighters to spend an AP to apply the condition.
I'm going to borrow from Fantasy Concepts and use AP as a per-session resource as well, starting with their base and modifying it if needed: 3 + one–quarter your character level, rounded down.
jasin
Explorer
Maybe it wasn't entirely clear in my post, but I have no problem with monks wielding spears (and other weapons; in fact, I've been looking for ways to make a 3E swordsman monk since before I started playing 3E
). What I don't want is monks never wielding quarterstaves, since spears are simply better.If quarterstaves get a little something to make them more attractive, it all works out. (Well, it still sort of leaves things like the kama or the siangham out in the cold, but I can't recall the last wuxia movie I saw that featured a siangham, so I'm not too worried about that.)
Edheldur
First Post
Ok, I'll bite: can you tell us something more about this? It sounds very intriguing.
jasin
Explorer
Page 32 lists 7th- and 8th-level bard spells. If the rest of the spell list (0-6th is the same as in 3.5), these lists repeat some spells already found on the bard list at lower levels: greater scrying, mass charm monster, irresistible dance. It's too limited to be an intentional free taste of Heighten Spell, so I'm guessing this is an oversight?
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
Maybe it wasn't entirely clear in my post, but I have no problem with monks wielding spears (and other weapons; in fact, I've been looking for ways to make a 3E swordsman monk since before I started playing 3E
This is not a playstyle I care to design to.
I don't design quarterstaves worrying that someone somewhere is going to work out that the spear is clearly better-- clearly better defined here as 1 point of damage, on average, better.
Frankly I didn't want to touch the half-orc, either.
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