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<blockquote data-quote="davethegame" data-source="post: 4695031" data-attributes="member: 5389"><p>As someone who has followed all the previews to cover them for my site, not a whole lot jumped out at me as surprising, but it did make me want to roll up some new characters and try a lot of these things out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good. More consistent in style than PHB1 for sure, and it leaves out some of the artists who have appeared in other 4e books that I strongly dislike. I didn't spot any recycled art, which is excellent.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Devas are an excellent concept that carries through whenever they show up. Gnomes, Half-Orcs, and Shifters all occupy unique niches for the game. Goliaths... enh. They didn't excite me in 3e and they're pretty similar now.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Up to my expectations, as noted earlier, the previews (and my trip to New York Comic Con) took a lot of the mystery out of what was going to be in it. The sacrifices I make <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not that has jumped out at me, but after doing a full day editing at work, I don't always turn that part of the brain back on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mainly utility/problem-solvers, with some skill-buffing to boot.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Besides the things you mention, it either works for something from PHB2 OR it's something anyone can take.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I dig them a lot, and I think it's one of the stronger concepts behind the various races. (I also have a fondness for Warforged in that regard). It reminds me both of that quasi-Monk skill using class from Arcana Unearthed and the Trill from Star Trek, to muddy up my nerdom there.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Largely an explanation of the keywords they've set in other books- Conjuration, Summoning, even stuff like Rattling from Martial Power. Stealth is the biggest errata there.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's hard to say since the PHB contains a wide variety of things on the power scale. Nothing has jumped out at me as being strictly power creep, but I'd have to look closer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davethegame, post: 4695031, member: 5389"] As someone who has followed all the previews to cover them for my site, not a whole lot jumped out at me as surprising, but it did make me want to roll up some new characters and try a lot of these things out. Good. More consistent in style than PHB1 for sure, and it leaves out some of the artists who have appeared in other 4e books that I strongly dislike. I didn't spot any recycled art, which is excellent. Devas are an excellent concept that carries through whenever they show up. Gnomes, Half-Orcs, and Shifters all occupy unique niches for the game. Goliaths... enh. They didn't excite me in 3e and they're pretty similar now. Up to my expectations, as noted earlier, the previews (and my trip to New York Comic Con) took a lot of the mystery out of what was going to be in it. The sacrifices I make :) Not that has jumped out at me, but after doing a full day editing at work, I don't always turn that part of the brain back on. Sure! Mainly utility/problem-solvers, with some skill-buffing to boot. Besides the things you mention, it either works for something from PHB2 OR it's something anyone can take. I dig them a lot, and I think it's one of the stronger concepts behind the various races. (I also have a fondness for Warforged in that regard). It reminds me both of that quasi-Monk skill using class from Arcana Unearthed and the Trill from Star Trek, to muddy up my nerdom there. Largely an explanation of the keywords they've set in other books- Conjuration, Summoning, even stuff like Rattling from Martial Power. Stealth is the biggest errata there. It's hard to say since the PHB contains a wide variety of things on the power scale. Nothing has jumped out at me as being strictly power creep, but I'd have to look closer. [/QUOTE]
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