dnd rollerblades (wotc article)

[dog45]

Cyran Gliding Boots

While very tasty in flavor, the crunch does not add up.

Skirmish + 10 ft move as 5 ft + full attack. Yay for scouts - bad math for wotc.

 

[Nyaricus]

Cyran Gliding Boots

While very tasty in flavor, the crunch does not add up.

Skirmish + 10 ft move as 5 ft + full attack. Yay for scouts - bad math for wotc.

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Care to inform us why this is so bad? I don't get it.

cheers,
--N

 

[Meloncov]

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Care to inform us why this is so bad? I don't get it.

cheers,
--N

Scouts would get skirmish bonus damage on a full attack.

 

[dog45]

What Meloncov said, plus there's an item in the old 3.0 Arms and Equipment guide that granted the same ability. The Sparring Dummy of the Master cost 30,000, required 1 month of near-uninterrupted training and a level of monk.

These rollerbaldes do that, with some easily overcome drawbacks, for 1400gp and no class or training requirements.

I like the item - cool flavor. But the mechanics should be changed.

 

[Kishin]

Yeah, the Cyran rollerskates are rather powerful, for a number of reasons. (Skirmish, AoOs, etc.) I'm not sure if they're a good idea.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Personally, I don't think I would allow them to enable skirmish. You're not "moving ten feet", you're "making a five-foot adjustment" that happens to actually move you ten feet.

That's just an easy balance thing. Everything else - evading attacks of opportunity, whatever - is what you get for the price.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Fighters on rollerblades? Not in my campaign.

 

[comrade raoul]

More prosaically, it can put characters in a position where they can make full attacks with much less fear of retribution. If someone without reach charges me (so that I begin my turn adjacent to them) I can take my full attack and then move back ten feet, requiring them to either pursue without the option of a full attack themselves or change tactics. This can be a very powerful ability.

The rollerblades definitely take away more from the game than they add, and sensible DMs should not allow them.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Fighters on rollerblades? Not in my campaign.

That's an Eberron page, so it's not even intended for your game world unless you're playing there. That said, I like some of the other clockworks from this series. The little spider-thief bot is neat and will likely show up in the hands of gnome NPCs.

 

[quasidomestikat]

Man, that reminds me of something a friend's character found once. His rouge found these bunny slippers, and when he put them on they turned out to be like boots of elvenkind, but bunny slippers.