New OCCULT ADVENTURES Preview Looks At Auras

There's a new Occult Adventures preview, this time over at iO9. This one takes a look at the concept of auras - alignment, emotion, health, and magic auras. As designer Jason Bulmahn says, "Take auras for example. With these rules at your disposal, you can grant your player characters a new way to interact with the characters and monsters around them. Is the wolf giving off a bright red aura, then it is best to leave it alone or prepare for a fight. Is the merchant radiating an oily green aura, then it might be a good idea to reconsider the value of that sword you were about to buy."

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For more, including some pretty great art, check out the article at iO9. For the previous preview, looking at the Cult Master, check out this article here at EN World. Occult Adventures is due for release at Gen Con this year.

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[Minicol]

I think it is an awful idea at every level. Made out purely for those who do not want thee hassle of thinking and roleplaying.

 

[Evenglare]

I think it is an awful idea at every level. Made out purely for those who do not want thee hassle of thinking and roleplaying.

I'm not quite sure why you are so annoyed with this. The paladin has been detecting evil for decades, this is essentially the same thing just with different classes. /shrug
I do have to admit when I read this though it takes me back to times when I played everquest and the enemies had little rings around them to identify how "hard" the enemy was...

 

[Obvious_Ninja]

This looks pretty neat to me. I'm not sure how it will be with balance but I'm really looking forward to this book...

 

[Crothian]

Sounds like characters will have two dots in Auspex like in Vampire the Masquerade.

 

[Obvious_Ninja]

Sounds like characters will have two dots in Auspex like in Vampire the Masquerade.

HA!!!!

 

[Desh-Rae-Halra]

Sounds like characters will have two dots in Auspex like in Vampire the Masquerade.

That's exactly what I was thinking...this whole aura thing is not really a new idea.

 

[Crothian]

I'm curious once the books is out how many of the colors and emotions will match up.