[FFG] New Midnight Preview Available

[d20Dwarf]

Greg has posted a preview of Midnight cleverly hidden within his rant on Friday. He's got one of the new classes we created for the setting, the defender, so go check it out!

Read about the development here:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/rants.html

Read the class here (or just click the link from his rant):

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/defender.html

I'm getting excited about this book's release!

 

[qstor]

Will,

Any idea when Dragonstar: The long road or the FFG steampunk book will be out?? Can't wait...must have them now...

Mike

 

[Darke]

Looks great !

One question about Midnight: In the Shadows - this product is in your schedule one month after Midnight - what is it? A Sourcebook? An Adventure?

das Darke

 

[d20Dwarf]

Mike,

Don't know about Long Road. Last I heard Sorcery & Steam was out in late April. I think there's a thread about it on the FFG Website.

Darke,

Midnight: Against the Shadow is actually a player companion book to Midnight, although there is going to be a lot of stuff in there of interest to DMs as well.

 

[coyote6]

Ooh, can I help start a FAQ, by asking questions?

The bonus damage for the Masterful Strike ability -- does it multiplied on a critical hit? I presume not, since it's bonus damage expressed as dice -- but boy, does that suck for the defender. Defender: "Ha! A critical hit! I deal . . . uh, an extra 1d6+4 damage." Axe-wielding fighter: "I critically hit, too. I got an extra 2d8+16, thanks to my magic axe and weapon specialization."

It looks like low-level defenders will have worse ACs than monks, thanks to no armor and a low AC bonus -- +1 or +2, compared to a monk that can get +3 or +4 with a good Wisdom. Sucks to be them.

And those poor Will and Fort saves are gonna hurt, compared to the monk. Ooh, I just realized, they don't get Evasion, either. So that good Ref save isn't going to be as useful as a rogue's. Ouch, again.

It kind of feels weaker than the monk. Now I want me or somebody to play one of these, so I can see if it really is weaker.

(Of course, a monk/defender multiclass . . . say, 4 levels of monk, then 16 levels of defender . . . )

I'm looking forward to reading Midnight; it sounds cooler all the time.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Ooh, can I help start a FAQ, by asking questions?

The bonus damage for the Masterful Strike ability -- does it multiplied on a critical hit? I presume not, since it's bonus damage expressed as dice -- but boy, does that suck for the defender. Defender: "Ha! A critical hit! I deal . . . uh, an extra 1d6+4 damage." Axe-wielding fighter: "I critically hit, too. I got an extra 2d8+16, thanks to my magic axe and weapon specialization."

Extra damage dice are never multiplied. The damage should be adjudicated like sneak attack damage dice.

It looks like low-level defenders will have worse ACs than monks, thanks to no armor and a low AC bonus -- +1 or +2, compared to a monk that can get +3 or +4 with a good Wisdom. Sucks to be them.

And those poor Will and Fort saves are gonna hurt, compared to the monk. Ooh, I just realized, they don't get Evasion, either. So that good Ref save isn't going to be as useful as a rogue's. Ouch, again.

It kind of feels weaker than the monk. Now I want me or somebody to play one of these, so I can see if it really is weaker.

I guess the best response to these are: the defender is neither a monk nor a rogue. You could turn these around a say a monk with a 10 Wis doesn't have as good an AC as a defender, or a rogue can't take an extra action once per round per class level, and a monk doesn't get as good a BAB as the defender. This class does what it does, not what other classes do. Some of the defender abilities are pretty powerful.

I'm looking forward to reading Midnight; it sounds cooler all the time.

Me too!

 

[EarthsShadow]

I have a quesiton about the classes in Midnight: Will all the classes have a AC bonus similar to the Defender? I also notice that the Defender has class abilities that are similar to the alternate rogues and rangers in your website, so will all future classes be built along those lines?

*edit: I know this may not be important, but for me it is. this is my 500 post on here, a milestone for me personally and I am proud to be a member of this community for so long*

 

[d20Dwarf]

The defender's class AC Bonus is unique to that class. As far as using abilities from the alternate classes on the Website, that's just a decision I made for the defender, and the wildlander has some as well. I think re-using good OGC is a good thing, and in this case even better since it was from FFG!

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

The defender looks very cool, i can't wait to get the book.