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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cwheeler" data-source="post: 4963704" data-attributes="member: 72242">Ok, the martial artist thing makes a little more sense now.It still seems a little strange to me to have a martial artist dealing d12 damage with an unarmed strike. If I where playing this, I could think of very few instances where I'd be willingly using one of the lower damage dice. How would it play to drop medium and heavy to d8/d10 respectively?A few notes after skimming the weapons:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The damage for the Battle Axe seems a little high for a medium weapon, being two dice higher than any other weapon of it's category. Should it be dropped to d10? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> If you wanted to, you could put in some things to make the different weapon types function more differently - such as allowing light weapons to attack more frequently (perhaps as a move action), or medium weapons giving you a static bonus to defense. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Another option with the weapons is to include a 'focused strike' option - By taking a full round to make a single attack, you can increase the damage dealt (e.g. one extra damage dice, adding +50% to damage dealt, etc..) </li> </ul>(Those last two options are mostly ways to balance other builds against the inevitable Brute/Two-Weapon Fighter powerhouses, although I actually like the idea of having more ways to distinguish light, medium and heavy weapons)Idea on sample magic tradition:Energy Manipulator.Prerequisites: Trained in Arcana, religion or nature.Benefit: Choose an energy type (fire, cold, acid, lightning, thunder, force, radiant, necrotic, psychic).You gain a medium ranged attack that deals XdY damage of the chosen energy type.Battle Surge: During this battle surge, you may make a ranged attack as a standard action. This attack is Blast1 and deals XdY damage.Focus: While you are focused, you gain resist 5 to your chosen energy type. You may expend your focus to change the type of energy being used for this tradition.It's quite a strait forward example, but should do the trick.Using this system, you could do some really interesting specific magical traditions. Illusionist and necromancer spring to mind...</blockquote>

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