Excerpts: Angels

[neceros]

It feels kinda funny to think of some Angels as Brutes now.
Although, one thing I already dislike is about the damage entry to the angels. When reading about how to simply assume energy attacks to be evenly splitted up damage-wise, I was joyful, as that meant no need to have extra-dices for every sort of stupid energy-damage. And now, here we have, an Angel of Vengeance, for whom you have to roll ice and fire damage separately. Man, talk about a downer. Why didn't they simply tell us to roll 2d8+18 damage (Cold/Fire)? That would be so much easier.
Oh well, we knew that it wouldn't be perfect. Sucks for us.

I prefer it that way. I'm old school.

 

[drjones]

I think I read the 'mercenary' thing different than others here. To me it sounded like they wanted a reason why a particular angel might not necessarily allways be operating as the hand of a particular god. We assume they mostly will be since they have attached themselves to gods who share their ideals and goals but this way they are not robots or puppets, they can be dealt with as individuals which opens possibilities plot and rp wise.

That's my guess anyway.

 

[Sashi]

I'm wondering why they decided to change angels from being created by the gods, to having an independent origin.

So you can fight an Angel without it meaning you've pissed off a god.

 

[hong]

So you can fight an Angel without it meaning you've pissed off a god.

That's not a very compelling reason.

 

[Derren]

Another wrong tactic?

Angel of Vengeance Tactics
It evokes its sign of vengeance at the start of battle, then teleports to the target and spends an action point to use double attack against the foe

- Invoke sign -> minor action
- teleport -> move action
- double attack -> standard action

Why is the action point necessary?

 

[drjones]

Yes I think the AP mention was to specify that given the Angels single mindedness it will not save any resource for later, all attention goes to killing the offending character NOW.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Yes I think the AP mention was to specify that given the Angels single mindedness it will not save any resource for later, all attention goes to killing the offending character NOW.

*Nods* I agree with that, especially since after that sentence it says:

The angel continues its relentless pursuit of the target, paying little heed to events around it.

This to me suggests, the Angel is continuing its attack and thus isn't using its AP for anything but to attack because of how single-minded it is.

 

[Derren]

If that is what is meant by the tactic then its rather badly worded. As written it looks like the AP is needed to double attack after the teleport.

 

[The_Fan]

Radiant is not just from good. It comes from clerics and paladins, neither of which have to be good. So your cleric of Pelor may use a holy white light, while a cleric of Asmodeus may use a corrupt, red light, and a cleric of Bane a baleful green light.

 

[Plageman]

Of course, that puts to wonder how powerful a god is, rules-wise.

All the fluff about the gods yells "IMMORTALS" to me