D&D 4E Essential 4e: Heroes of the Forgotten Lands

[Primal]

Umm... non-Essentials characters will have access to all the feats in HotFL and HotFK (unless they specifically require an Essentials class feature as a prerequisite). If a feat changed in the Essentials books, then it's changing everywhere.

What about those feats that won't get updated... are they still viable -- for example, racial feats? I'm just not sure how some of these interact with the 'Essentials' classes, features and powers... somehow I feel it all won't just "click" together (balance-wise) as smoothly as it's being billed. But this is just speculation and we should not be discussing it here.

 

[renau1g]

So, uh, maybe everyone knows this, but what are the racial stats for the Halfling? It's Dex and either Cha/???

 

[Camelot]

So, uh, maybe everyone knows this, but what are the racial stats for the Halfling? It's Dex and either Cha/???

It's +2 Dex, +2 Con/Cha now. Which is weird at first, but I guess you can consider them "tough little buggers."

 

[ObsidianCrane]

One more question that has been bugging me (aside from the one below):

How does Human Versatility work? Are humans given the choice of Versatility or an Extra at-will

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION:
Magic Missile: "One target" or "One or two targets?"

That was the question I couldn't remember at 2am this morning.

I hope the former, because in my Red Box game last night the mage blasted through about half of the 16 kobolds (increased from published amount to accomodate 6 players) by himself without ever rolling a die.

And dang if that isn't cool!

To be honest I hope if it made it into HFL with 1 or 2 they do not change it back to only 1.

Oh and another question provoked by the Red Box.
Does the Slayer bonus come from Dex or Con?

 

[MerricB]

It's +2 Dex, +2 Con/Cha now. Which is weird at first, but I guess you can consider them "tough little buggers."

It makes a lot more sense if you've read the Lord of the Rings and seen early D&D.

Cheers!

 

[Nightfly]

Someone commented on the Mage being weaker than a PHB Wizard. First thing is the Mage has Tome of Readiness built in according to information given up thread.

Also they get Magic Missile as a free extra at-will. I should have taken all that into account. When you look at the whole package, the mage builds look pretty nice after all.

Fiery_Dragon, thanks very much for answering my question!

 

[Scribble]

I'm guessing those feats and weapons will be in the 2nd Essentials player book, they gotta save something for that one.

So, no multiclass feats in this one I take it then?

There hasn't seemed to be any mention of multi-class at all... I'm kind of wondering if like rituals, it will just be another thing that new players really don't need to wrap their head around just yet.

I mean are multi-class character really "essential?"

 

[daddystabz]

Thanks for all the info. 6 days and I will have my copy.

How about details for the slayer and the fighter ED?

How are you getting yours so far in advance? I am still showing it will not be released till Sept. 21st.

 

[Scribble]

How are you getting yours so far in advance? I am still showing it will not be released till Sept. 21st.

Go to a premiere store. They should have them around the 10th.

 

[Obryn]

How well the books actually interact with the core rules remains to be seen, although I'm a bit doubtful that it won't work that smoothly in practise ("What? Your guy already has Paragon level feats?!? How come?" and "Come again? You are wielding something called a 'Superior Weapon'? And *how* many extra dice your Vorpal weapon gets on a crit? Errr... that's not how it works per the 'Essentials' rules which we're using in this group.") .

I don't see the problem?

Upthread, the feats were described. Newer feats can be taken at any level and have scaling bonuses - like Weapon Focus does, now.

And Superior Weapons frankly only made a tiny appearance in the core 4e books. It was pretty much "Bastard Sword and a few corner cases." Adventurer's Vault was, and will probably continue to be, the main source for exotic weapons.

-O