D&D 4E List of Potential New Martial Practices

[Garthanos]

For instance the XSLT output looks like this

Animal Tongues

• Category Exploration
• Key Skill Nature, Insight
• Component Cost 10 GP or 1 Healing Surge
• Duration as much as 24 hours
• Level 1
• Time 10 minutes
• Market Price 50 gp
• type Martial Practice
  The practice is as much about getting the beasts to listen as it is learning what to say and understanding their responses. It is said there are sentient variants of many animals particularly hailing from the realm of fey - their languages are both more verbal, complex and comfortable to other sentients they may find this gestural form of communication rustic and quaint or insulting depending highly on mood. Exploration Nature, Insight special as much as 24 hours 1 10 minutes 50 gp Martial Practice Animal languages are simplistic and involve gesture and stance as much or more than any vocalization coming to an understanding with beasts often involves effort (spent healing surge) such as chasing them or rigorous power plays or smearing scent creating substances on yourself with a component cost 10 gp. This practice allows one to use various language based skills normally with common animals (such as Diplomacy/Bluff/Intimidation and also Insight). Animals so convinced will remain willing to communicate for as much as 24 hours but will desire to engage in their normal activities their "acceptance" of you is often enough that others of their kind respond similar.

 

[Garthanos]

OK here is a link to some of it.... its not done just in progress.

https://www.dyasdesigns.com/practices.xml

That same xml ... as a part file will load in CBLoader

Tables not yet parsed into html output

 

[Myrhdraak]

Looking really good. Thanks for the effort. Makes all your great work more accessible

 

[Myrhdraak]

On a general note I think the whole ritual/martial practice area was under developed in 4th edition. A lot of utility spells would have been better of as rituals. The whole psionic area should also have included psionic "mantras" or whatever name you think would fit.

 

[Garthanos]

On a general note I think the whole ritual/martial practice area was under developed in 4th edition. A lot of utility spells would have been better of as rituals. The whole psionic area should also have included psionic "mantras" or whatever name you think would fit.

Note Transcendental Meditation was a very early added practice

 

[Garthanos]

Looking really good. Thanks for the effort. Makes all your great work more accessible

I have considered putting a custom form allowing people to select field values and input a new practice or ritual ... it could output a similar XML - auto select a lot of elements like cost / DC per level and so on

 

[Garthanos]

I have wanted to learn XSLT for quite a while now

 

[Garthanos]

A lot of utility spells would have been better of as rituals.

Could you elaborate... i actually am also thinking of revising rituals because of things I have run into while addressing the obvious underdevelopment of Practices.

And interesting rituals too have been popping to mind like the wolf pack transportation and the forces of nature or zombie hoard summoning rituals.

 

[Garthanos]

Added a link to the styled XML with some more elaborated martial practices in the first post.

 

[Garthanos]

Why not just a simple number of temps? 5/tier + CHAmod or something?

Oh, and it could cost a surge from the orator, lotta practices do.

Or one could grant a healing surge worth of hp to each with the religion or diplomacy roll doing its job to reduce the surge cost.

History might also work... like telling a tale of ancient heroes to rev up the team. Or having a party and some of the temp hit points are pain supression as a gift of Bacchus.

OK I want to know is this too powerful because I like the flavor a lot.