Filling Out Cycles

[Siberys]

From my recent blog post;

			I'm going to start work by filling out "cycles", to use trading card game parlance. In TCGs, a cycle is a series of cards with related designs or effects. D&D has its cycles, too, and a distressing number of them (at least for someone like me) are "partial", which is to say a pattern was set up but not filled out. A good example of this is the Warlock Pacts - there's an Infernal pact, but no Infernal binder. What gives?

At the end of the article, I ask for some ideas from my [currently rather limited] readership. Hence, I came here.

What cycles that aren't yet completed do you think should be filled out? What sort of thing would you like to see first?

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Knights and Slayers get benefits from using certain weapons (heavy blades & hammers for knights, heavy blades and axes for slayers). I would like to see these fleshed out add other weapon types.

There are two sentinel druid "seasonable" builds (summer & winter?). I would like builds for the other 2 - though, WotC has said that it will be releasing those.

More Cavalier virtues and Blackguard vices... at the moment there are only 2 each.

That's my short list, anyway.

 

[Siberys]

Good idea on the Slayer and Knight - I hadn't thought of those.

Re: Sentinels - I've actually already done both the Autumn and Winter sentinels (though I've only posted Autumn, here). Wizards has said they'd do 'em on DDI, though.

On virtues and Vices - that's a good idea. One thing I notice, though, is that they don't match up with the "classic lists". I could certainly match them up, and then fill out the remainder, though.

 

[Quickleaf]

Dmg 3.

 

[Tallifer]

Dmg 3.

Yes, we need good and detailled advice for running adventures at the epic tier.

Other missing elements:

1. More Dragonshards of a greater variety.
2. The Friar Tuck class (cloth, quarterstaff melee, healing)
3. Better Seeker powers.
4. More support for Kalashtar, Shadar Kai, Changelings, Muls, Gnolls, Kenkus, et cetera.

 

[Quickleaf]

Yes, we need good and detailled advice for running adventures at the epic tier.

Yeah, and more traps, terrain and challenges.

2. The Friar Tuck class (cloth, quarterstaff melee, healing)

What about a hybrid monk/pacifist cleric?

3. Better Seeker powers.

FYI, I submitted a seeker article that was declined. BUT, the reason Stan! gave me was a big seeker article for Dragon was already in the works.