DnD Blog: Wizard with a License to Kill
- Thread starter gweinel
- Start date
GX.Sigma
Adventurer
If it was, it was a long time ago, so confirmation counts as new info.
Incenjucar
Legend
For months now.
Where was it originally mentioned? I don't have it in the D&D Next Info page, and I thought I'd been pretty comprehensive.
Incenjucar
Legend
Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible
"I happen to know that my friend Rob Schwalb has an unhealthy interest in assassins. Something to do with the stabby-stabby, perhaps. Assassins have been around since forever (as in, the Blackmoor supplement as a thief subclass)."
They've mentioned assassins a number of times, I'm pretty sure, but you know how fun it is to search their stuff.
Li Shenron
Legend
Let's keep in mind that it has been said by the designers that mechanically the background delivers skills and the theme delivers feats (not necessarily all skills and all feats). Class delivers everything else (but very probably also some "must-have" skills, and less probably it might also deliver some bonus feats) except alignment, and maybe some other stuff.
Thanks!
First time mentioned directly. They started they want to "include all the classes that were in the first PH style book for each edition."
But someone needs to add Spy to mentioned/confirmed Backgrounds.
---
Since I am looking at the idea of the assassin class and what Bruce said, and it sounds like class handles all the fat cruch. Anything that is over a sentence or three of rules.
Assassin's d% death attack
Barbarian's Rage
Bard's Songs and Spontaneous Magic
Cleric's Turning and Divine Vancian Casting
Druid's Shapeshifting and Druidic Vancian Casting
Paladin's list of stuff
etc etc
Themes are just a collection of a few combat feats and the order you get them. A theme might bite into a class (Magic Missile at-will as a feat, Sneak attack at half the rogue level) but they are just tweaks on the basic system and a adjustments of some class features.
Backgrounds are just 2 of those "bad" skill feats like Alertness, Agile, and Acrobatics plus one of those "junk" feats that grant a language or boost speed or changes vision that you get at level 1.
Doug McCrae
Legend
It's not D&D if the fighter gets unique mechanics!!!
FitzTheRuke
Legend
It's been assumed ever since they said that they wanted to include all the classes that ever were in a PHB1. (Plus, as far as most think the Psion.)
Similar Threads
