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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nathaniel Lee" data-source="post: 8169198" data-attributes="member: 6948827">It's awesome that you're tackling the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! Quick question: is it intentional that War has a lower AC than Strife? Maybe it's because the idea of Ares from the comic book universe in his full blown suit of armor is too engrained in my head (and yes I realize that the God of War is not the same as the Horseman) that this seems odd to me? I'd expect that someone who is the embodiment of war would be pretty well-armored. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Other than that, I like the overall concepts presented thus far in the two Horsemen. The Sunder action is pretty cool, and I could see where that could be pretty frightening to even high level PCs since undoubtedly their magical items would be a big contributor to their combat effectiveness.<s>The only other comment I'll make is that maybe the Return Straggler action's pronouns are a little ambiguous? I'm guessing that the "it" referred to is War, but I submit that using that pronoun makes it difficult to ascertain whether it's the target creature that's being referred to. A common approach I see in the official material is to simply use the name of the monster as well as the word "creature" or "target" explicitly, even when it seems a little awkward, just to be crystal clear on the subjects of each clause, and in this case I think it's really just a single "it" that needs to be clarified.</s><s></s><s>Maybe something like...</s><s></s><s>"War chooses a creature it can see that has moved any distance away from it since the beginning of War's last turn. The creature makes a DC 25 Strength saving throw or is pulled 30 feet closer to War. A creature that ends this movement adjacent to War provokes an opportunity attack."</s><s></s><s>...?</s><s></s><s>I don't know, maybe it was clear through careful examination of the grammar, but I figured I'd point it out. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" /></s>Edit: Never mind, after really thinking about it, it's probably easy enough to ascertain what "it" was referring to just based on how they're all used. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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