EberronToC and D&D Podcast: Divine Power

[Rechan]

Here's the podcast:
D&D Podcast: Divine Power (June 2009)

Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but I plan to here in a moment.

As for Eberron:
Eberron Campaign Guide Excerpts: Q'barra & Table of Contents

Reading the Table of Contents, it looks like the Daelkyr really got backlogged. I see one mentioned. Khyber only gets 3 pages.

Also wow, the Dreaming Dark/Inspired only get 4?

 

[stonegod]

Reading the Table of Contents, it looks like the Daelkyr really got backlogged. I see one mentioned. Khyber only gets 3 pages.

Also wow, the Dreaming Dark/Inspired only get 4?

Didn't get a lot of pages (other than monsters) in the ECS either. I think thats more for both of them (not counting the Dragon article Keith wrote a while back).

 

[Rechan]

Didn't get a lot of pages (other than monsters) in the ECS either.

Eh?

The Daelkyr were all over the place. I honestly coudln't look at anything Eberron-related without getting Madness-godlings in my face.

 

[Glyfair]

Eh?

The Daelkyr were all over the place. I honestly coudln't look at anything Eberron-related without getting Madness-godlings in my face.

Not in the campaign setting though. You do have a statblock (albeit a minimum level Daelkyr) in the ECS, but the specific Daelkyr don't get any mentions until later (Player's Guide was first, IIRC).

Sure, they get mentioned here and there in the ECS in various contexts. They likely will get the same mentions in the new campaign guide.

 

[Rechan]

As far as the Podcast...

At first they really discuss the History of divine classes in D&D, and also the development of the divine classes in 4e. Mearls talks about how the Cleric was a dual stat class because they wanted to facilitate both concepts (robed mystic priest vs. holy knight), and it broadened the races that made good x (grr argh, Rechan's pet peeve).

We get domains for "Evil" deities (Undeath, for instance).

Clerics:

The Cleric's new build is the Shielding Cleric (buffing/healing specialty). There's an option for Clerics to swap out Turn Undead for Healer's Mercy.

Paladins:

Divine Sanction: Marking mechanic for pally that is similar for divine challenge, but it compliments Divine Challenge; functions via the powers/feats, operates same time with a Divine Challenge. The paladin can use Divine Challenge on one guy, and use Divine Sanction on another, or several guys. Sanction doesn't have the same limitations. Set duration. Deals radiant damage. Part of this is so the pally can address multiple enemies instead of just one.

(Hint: Future defenders will act more like fighters/wardens with the ability to take on multiple foes, rather than the Swordmage/Paladin who pick one guy and duke it out).

Avengers:

Commanding Avenger build. Leader secondary role focused.

Invoker: We know about the malediction invoker.

 

[Nymrohd]

I need more scoops! I will be away from a PC for two weeks and I need more scoops from Divine Power Why has noone gotten it ahead of time and leaked half of it this time?

 

[Novem5er]

What I like about the ECG Table of Contents is that all of the nations/regions have multiple pages. Breland, for example, gets 7 pages.

One thing that annoyed me about the FRCG is that several of the regions only got a single page of description. Of course, I understand that there are SO MANY regions in the Realms that a page limit was needed. I think that's part of the Good and Bad of the Realms.... so many options, so little page space.

Since Eberron has fewer distinct areas, I was hoping that the CG would be able to spend more pages and provide more detail. It looks like this will be the case

ONE thing I'm disappointed in... no specific section on Airships. They have 5 pages dedicated to "Travel", so I'm sure that Airships will be mentioned there. I'd just like more detail than we got in the Adventurer's Vault. If not here, then I'd love to see a Dragon article that offered different model Airship stats, ways that players could mod their own ships, and even some very easy Ship-to-Ship combat that involved all the players.