Mortality Radio # 30: Ed Stark interview available...

[Wormwood]

why the hell would they alter magic missile? It is and always has been the mage's favored spell since it ALWAYS hits.

Kinda answered your own question there, didncha?

 

[Adlon]

A'Koss, thank you for the summary of the interview.

 

[Angcuru]

well then why do they want to change it NOW? why not WAY back in 2nd edition?

 

[Wormwood]

well then why do they want to change it NOW? why not WAY back in 2nd edition?

My point was that they are not changing Magic Missile.

 

[Adlon]

Henry, I definately do NOT mind. This show, and it's interviews, are for the community.

A'Koss has posted a pretty good summary in another thread.

To those who came, and/or posted questions, thank you.

 

[Green Knight]

are they going to have a trade-in type of thing for the altered books? For me this seems more like a scheme to increase sales than an attempt to balance the game. If I can trade in my Core books, S&F, and ELH for the 3.5 ones, for a reasonable fee, I will of course do so, but otherwise......probably not gonna get the new ones.

Are you serious? Damned Nintendo! Should've had a trade-in deal for when they released the Super Nintendo. Had to buy that thing full price after I already owned a regular Nintendo. Can you believe that? Or how about Sony. They expect people who already owned a Playstation to buy a Playstation 2 at full price? Are they out of their minds? Nevermind the folks at computer companies? Why don't they have a trade-in deal where I can give them my old decrepit computer to bring down the price of the new one? Bastards!

/sarcasm

 

[A'koss]

I seem to have missed mentioning that Bards can cast spells in armor now.

As far as Magic Missile goes, Ed mentioned that they tried a variant that inflicted d6 damage, save for 1/2. The playtesters apparantly said they thought it was more balanced, but hated it anyway. So back it went. It's funny he says this because that was exactly the same change they tried out during the original 3e playtest...

Apparantly the multiclass restrictions for the Paladin and Monk remained bacause "the playtesters wanted them." I personally found that a little hard to swallow... At any rate, Ed said it was easy enough to drop them if a DM chose to.

Adlon, you're welcome. It was just something whipped up to tide people over until you guys get a proper transcript of the chat done.


Cheers,

A'koss.

 

[Mercule]

well, I still think that every class should be able to take weapon specialization.

That's a troll, right?

 

[rounser]

I seem to have missed mentioning that Bards can cast spells in armor now.

Hooray! The situation before was damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't...and the amount of getting in and out of armour was enough to consider taking ranks in Perform (Stripping)...

 

[JoeBlank]

As far as Magic Missile goes, Ed mentioned that they tried a variant that inflicted d6 damage, save for 1/2. The playtesters apparantly said they thought it was more balanced, but hated it anyway. So back it went. It's funny he says this because that was exactly the same change they tried out during the original 3e playtest...

WOTC published this variant in the Spellbook feature on their website.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20030308x

Bards casting spells in armor without an armor check penalty is perhaps the best news of all!