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[Corinnguard]

Bending feats? Any chance of them being structured as a feat chain like those in Level Up?

 

[Mike Myler]

Bending feats? Any chance of them being structured as a feat chain like those in Level Up?

Nah not chained together, but there are 4 feats per element so you can still take a bunch of them!

 

[Corinnguard]

Nah not chained together, but there are 4 feats per element so you can still take a bunch of them!

Okay. Especially when they are picked up by the new Monk (Warrior of the Elements) from 2024 D&D.

The Path of the Elements feats make me wish there were Combat Traditions for each of the four classic elements.

 

[Mike Myler]

The Path of the Elements feats make me wish there were Combat Traditions for each of the four classic elements.

That sounds like a job for @Steampunkette and/or @Timespike

(Adamant Mountain and Rapid Current may already be doing some of that job though depending on what you're thinkin)

 

[Corinnguard]

That sounds like a job for @Steampunkette and/or @Timespike

(Adamant Mountain and Rapid Current may already be doing some of that job though depending on what you're thinkin)

I was thinking about Adamant Mountain and Biting Zephyr when I was wondering about elemental Combat Traditions. However, the more I think about it, these Combat Traditions might be more like Cutting Omen or Arcane Knight in that they would be made up of maneuvers and stances influenced by the magic of the elements themselves.

That said, I do agree with you about who could be up to the job of designing them.

 

[Steampunkette]

So I'll be entirely cards down on the "Elemental Bending" traditions, @Corinnguard and @Mike Myler:

I've been pounding my head on it for over a year at this point. Every time I start on making the four traditions I keep coming back to the issue that they're all "Samey".

Oh, sure. There's differences in some of the stances I keep rewriting or individual maneuvers between the different elements, but they're all -really- similar overall.

So recently I settled on the idea of doing -one- elemental bending tradition.

Specifically a tradition where if you're an Air bender there are maneuvers you -can't- use unless you also learn Fire, Earth, or Water bending. And the ability to learn the different elemental styles of the martial tradition through training which doesn't count against your martial traditions known.

But then some of the maneuvers are built to benefit any character who takes it and a few others are designed to benefit any character but the benefit is based, specifically, on your chosen element(s) which make that maneuver in particular more powerful as you learn more elements.

I'm also specifically trying to make maneuvers that involve each combination of any two elements. Like a stance for Air/Water that increases your unarmed strike reach by 10ft, and then a different Air/Fire maneuver which unleashes a massive elemental blast to strike and shove enemies away from you.

(In this context an Air/Water maneuver is usable by any air -or- water user, rather than requiring both. Same for Air/Fire)

... it's actually shaping up to be kind of neat and I'm hopeful.