D&D 4E Ranger: Beastmaster New Powers

Garthanos · Jul 6, 2019

Tony Vargas said:
"Dismantle the robot's arm!" Tom commanded, offhandedly.

::crickets::

... I think I just carbon-dated myself, again.

You are supposed to date other people, silly one.

Garthanos · Jul 6, 2019

Garthanos said:
Offhand Commands A system of gestures and similar which gives your beast bonus if you have a hand free. this should scale probably.

I think this works fine as a straight up addition to the Beastmaster a +1 to hit and damage for Beast attacks seems like it would fit.

Blue · Jul 6, 2019

[MENTION=82504]Garthanos[/MENTION], can you make sure to use the edition prefixes when creating a new post so the target audience for the thread is clear from the forum screen?

Thanks.

EDIT: Me be idiot and missed it. Sorry!

Garthanos · Jul 6, 2019

Blue said:
@Garthanos, can you make sure to use the edition prefixes when creating a new post so the target audience for the thread is clear from the forum screen?

Thanks.

Unless someone changed it for me...

it already is...

Larrin · Jul 6, 2019

Blue said:
@Garthanos, can you make sure to use the edition prefixes when creating a new post so the target audience for the thread is clear from the forum screen?

Thanks.

It definitely has the [4e] tag for me in the main forum list. The tag doesn't show up everywhere once you're in the thread. (it's in some places but not others)

Garthanos · Jul 6, 2019

Larrin said:
It definitely has the [4e] tag for me in the main forum list. The tag doesn't show up everywhere once you're in the thread. (it's in some places but not others)

Hmmm could be something funky in the forum.

Garthanos · Jul 6, 2019

Is there any beastmaster feats which give a bonus on beast damage?

Larrin · Jul 8, 2019

Garthanos said:
Is there any beastmaster feats which give a bonus on beast damage?

To my knowledge the only source of beast master feats is Martial Power I, and there is no "Your beast gains a +2/3/4 feat bonus to damage" feat that I see. The only damage feat I can find is Coordinated Oppurtunist which is +2 dmg for YOU on oppurtunity attacks if target is adjacent to beast.

Tangent Alert: Looking through the beast master feats I can really see some flaws in the "every race-class combo gets a feat" theory Martial Power tried to implement. The feats aren't (all) bad, but they're so specific and numerous it makes finding anything generally useful a pain in the attention span.

Garthanos · Jul 9, 2019

Larrin said:
To my knowledge the only source of beast master feats is Martial Power I, and there is no "Your beast gains a +2/3/4 feat bonus to damage" feat that I see. The only damage feat I can find is Coordinated Oppurtunist which is +2 dmg for YOU on oppurtunity attacks if target is adjacent to beast.

Tangent Alert: Looking through the beast master feats I can really see some flaws in the "every race-class combo gets a feat" theory Martial Power tried to implement. The feats aren't (all) bad, but they're so specific and numerous it makes finding anything generally useful a pain in the attention span.

Critical Teamwork lets your beast get critical hit bonuses. Based on the pluses of your weapon.

Vengeful Guardian is situational too if your quarry attacks you the beast gets +1/+1

Garthanos · Jul 9, 2019

Garthanos said:
Critical Teamwork lets your beast get critical hit bonuses. Based on the pluses of your weapon.

Vengeful Guardian is situational too if your quarry attacks you the beast gets +1/+1

Seems kind of sad that it takes a feat for some of these things

My idea of balancing the beast as the secondary weapon includes something like Critical teamwork (with one less Die)