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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 3970101" data-attributes="member: 31301">Good catch on the contradiction, I'm not sure I would've caught it on my read through. That being said, the article does underscore the importance of an Archon's armor, so crafting fancy armor would sort of be like getting a new look from an "image consultant" right after a scoring a big promotion.Here's another contradiction for you. The text states that Archons neither need nor have Darkvision, yet the stat blocks give them Darkvision? Maybe this is just because the Elemental creature type confers Darkvision?Personally, I don't get why beings of elemental chaos insist on organizing themselves in groups of five. It's very modron'ish. I know they're downplaying the alignment aspects and are generally doing away with the whole law vs. chaos distinction, but it just seems weird and tacked on.Only six usages of the word "cool" and they were all near the bottom. At least they aren't using cool for the main portion of the flavor text. It makes me wonder if the stuff at the bottom was an addendum by another author or something he was directed to write by marketing.I was actually quite surprised at how long the article was. Lot's of extra detail I'm not really used to seeing. That being said, I wish the writing weren't so damned clunky. A good 75% of the time it reads like the narrative voice over at the beginning of a bad 80's fantasy movie. Don't just tell me what an Elemental Foundry is, describe it!! Most of the flavor reads like someone outlined all of the relevant parts in bullet points and then stitched it together with connecting words.Anyhow, the 4E-like mechanics are interesting and I think I'll be using the Blazesteel Archon in the inaugural game of my new setting on Sunday. We'll see how it goes.</blockquote>

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