grodog
Hero
Where's [MENTION=374]Nightfall[/MENTION] when you need him?
Apparently Nightfall's banned, based on his email back to me. Oops
Where's [MENTION=374]Nightfall[/MENTION] when you need him?
Oh - that is another gem of a book. The Prestige Class (some kind of rune-themed wizard) is a little wonky but the fluff text is top notch. Really nice maps of the undermountain city in that too. Basically some well written 'classic' mountain dwelling dwarfs.
I liked both the Rune Wizard and Tatoo Adept. They actually made the idea of creating a Sartan or Patry viable.
I loved the idea of tatoo magic in Scarred Lands, and never liked the way WoTC did it, where they were expendable tatoos that vanished off your body. Instead, they`re like permanent magic items with a set number of daily uses, and a penalty that is incurred after using them.
And the idea of a rune wizard who doesn`t carry around a bunch of sticks and stones with runes carved upon them, but instead traces out glowing sigils of light that hang in midair has a really cool vibe.
Banshee
One thing that makes me grumpy is how I just can't read most of the fancy fonts in Hollowfaust. I know there's richness there, it's just illegible to me.
But SL felt so much like a world where you needed to be a hero, a world that needed you, and that it was far outside the comfort zone of most Fantasy which is mostly OK except for the monsters at the edges and the cacklin villains.
What this means though, is that the guy in the party playing the wizard is routinely stripping. It also meant that every arcane spellcaster with bad charisma, from hags to Titanspawn, are getting nekkid.
The horror. The horror.