October 2009 Editorial Calendar

[LightPhoenix]

What the heck kind of racial power are they going to give Vistani?

The very first thing I thought of was basically Fey Step re-flavored as Mist Step.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Well since 4e has its tieflings limited to a single, monolithic origin, rather than the vast variety of fiendish bloodlines they could have previously, I'd guess the "abyssal genasi" is a way to have a demon-blood tiefer without contradicting themselves and calling it a tiefling, given the "elemental" association with the Abyss in 4e.

I assume it's either Abyssal Tieflings, or "Negative Quasi-Elemental Genasi".

 

[Henrix]

I think the Vistani'll be psionically inclined humans. Combining some of the best parts of earlier such attempts. Perhaps they have an extra power point?

 

[Nai_Calus]

Did we really need *yet more* focus on the Raven Queen. (No.)

Let's just hope the D&Dg article is more like the Bane one and less like the god-awful Bahamut one.

 

[WalterKovacs]

Seeker sounds like a divine class to me, basically "inquisitor" but with a name that can be good or bad. The role it would fit seems like striker. A ranged divine striker would be a niche that isn't exactly fit. While the Avenger isolates their target, I could see the Seeker being about getting to the person no matter where they are (so ranged attacks that can pop through cover, especially ones provided by enemies, etc).

 

[Rechan]

Did we really need *yet more* focus on the Raven Queen. (No.)

I actually think we do. Namely because you have a lot of people looking to play Paladins of the Raven Queen, and suddenly folks are "Well wait, how do you make that work?"

Some guidelines about the tenents of an unaligned Death god's religion would be very useful, along with tips on how to play it.

 

[Klaus]

Treed caught my eye. I'm looking forward to that, Shroomy!

I really hope Vistani is NOT the humans of Ravenloft. They're humans. Why do we need stats for those?


Or they may not be related to Tieflings, but it might tie or warp the elemental nature of Genasi. Like say, a Poison-air genasi, or a toxic water genasi, or something.

Vistani were not just humans. Between the moon madness, the bloodline abilities (Zarovan Vistani drifting through time!) and more, you could easily have Vistani as different from humans as shadar-kai.

 

[Nai_Calus]

I actually think we do. Namely because you have a lot of people looking to play Paladins of the Raven Queen, and suddenly folks are "Well wait, how do you make that work?"

Some guidelines about the tenents of an unaligned Death god's religion would be very useful, along with tips on how to play it.

Undead bad. Punish those who try to avoid death. Fairly obvious standard stuff.

I'm a lot more interested in what one might be doing as a Paladin of, say, the unaligned god of arcane magic, spring, beauty and the arts; or the unaligned goddess of trickery, the moon, love and autumn, as a couple of examples.

I've got some ideas for the former, and Divine Power gave me more, but the second I'm still kind of 'huh' on. And all the stuff for the first one revolves almost entirely around the 'beauty' part.

Fact is, Raven Queen hands down already has the most support and the most detail about her religion among the non-evil gods. They really need to focus on some of the other gods, especially the ones where some of the divine classes are not at all obvious matches.

 

[fanboy2000]

I actually think we do. Namely because you have a lot of people looking to play Paladins of the Raven Queen, and suddenly folks are "Well wait, how do you make that work?"

Some guidelines about the tenents of an unaligned Death god's religion would be very useful, along with tips on how to play it.

I can testify that people at the last Gameday told me flat out "The Raven Queen may officially unaligned, but she's really evil." This annoyed me.

 

[doctorhook]

Undead bad. Punish those who try to avoid death. Fairly obvious standard stuff.

I'm a lot more interested in what one might be doing as a Paladin of, say, the unaligned god of arcane magic, spring, beauty and the arts; or the unaligned goddess of trickery, the moon, love and autumn, as a couple of examples.

I've got some ideas for the former, and Divine Power gave me more, but the second I'm still kind of 'huh' on. And all the stuff for the first one revolves almost entirely around the 'beauty' part.

Fact is, Raven Queen hands down already has the most support and the most detail about her religion among the non-evil gods. They really need to focus on some of the other gods, especially the ones where some of the divine classes are not at all obvious matches.

You're right, it would be nice to see more info about the other deities. That said, every time there's been a "Which 4E deity does your character worship?" poll here at ENWorld, those polls have indicated that the Raven Queen is a runaway favorite. Thus, if nothing else, WotC is catering to what players seem to want: more info about the most popular deity.

I can testify that people at the last Gameday told me flat out "The Raven Queen may officially unaligned, but she's really evil." This annoyed me.

I don't wanna accuse those people of badwrongfun, but... well, isn't that more or less what they said to you? (Not to mention the PH.) Who were these goombas and why did they say this? I thought "unaligned" was pretty clear.