Previews for April and Beyond

[Rechan]

Previews for April and Beyond

Woo! Green slime! Tomes!

 

[chaotix42]

Nice! Tomes are pretty sweet - even though the second Mastery option doesn't give you a mechanical benefit, the situational benefit could very well be worth it.

The MM2 preview is cool too. Xorns are full of options and sure to be interesting combatants until the bitter end. I'm very impressed, and since my PCs are 13th lvl and I have a handful of AtG xorn minis I'll definitely be using these guys very soon.

 

[Rechan]

I like the tomes, but one thing I definitely hope to see is the "Power swap" effect for Utilities, because some utilities really are case by case basis (Wall of Fog vs. Say, Invisibility), so being able to whip that sucker out when you need it would be nice.

I'm also pondering expanding this, and coming up with some Tomes for Clerics/Avenger/Invokers. I am starting to dig the idea of, say, using the Avenger to replicate the Archivist class from Heroes of Horror (Holding up a holy text and reading an esoteric holy chant to harm a devil, for instance). An Avenger multi-classed/hybrid-ed into Invoker might get that feel, perhaps.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Previews for April and Beyond

Woo! Green slime! Tomes!

I liked the preview for E1: Death Reach.

I've never had a campaign where the PCs got to meet a god. I think this is a neat introduction to the Epic Levels.

And if I see this correctly, the Raven Queen might have her name because of her Raven Wings. Neat.
And there also seems to be some more insight into her backstory (or was this another article?) as taking her place from Nerull.

 

[arscott]

I think the Raven Queen's backstory is presented in the Pluton entry in the Manual of the Planes.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I think the Raven Queen's backstory is presented in the Pluton entry in the Manual of the Planes.

I guess I'll have to check that again, because I forgot all of it.

 

[Rechan]

I really hope that if we have green slime, we'll get brown mold! And Yellow mold!

Or at least, get those in the DMG.

 

[ravenheart]

The tomes are a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Especially the Tome of Undeniable Fire (two extra spells in your spellbook?? CRAZY!!!)! That said, I like the monsters too!

I like the tomes, but one thing I definitely hope to see is the "Power swap" effect for Utilities, because some utilities really are case by case basis (Wall of Fog vs. Say, Invisibility), so being able to whip that sucker out when you need it would be nice.

I'm also pondering expanding this, and coming up with some Tomes for Clerics/Avenger/Invokers. I am starting to dig the idea of, say, using the Avenger to replicate the Archivist class from Heroes of Horror (Holding up a holy text and reading an esoteric holy chant to harm a devil, for instance). An Avenger multi-classed/hybrid-ed into Invoker might get that feel, perhaps.

The problem with "the utility swap" is that there are at-will, encounter and daily utilities. How do you make a feature/property that balances that?

 

[avin]

Maybe my game preferences are somewhat different from most D&D gamers but as a player or master one thing that would cut all the fun and belief in campaign is a god talking to players asking for a favor or starting a quest.

Gods should talk to players only by angels, by creatures (a raven in that case) or as a presence on their dreams.

When I'm DMing gods are far more distant beings and have their own distant agendas.

When I'm playing and a god show up all I think is "lame"...

 

[ferratus]

Maybe my game preferences are somewhat different from most D&D gamers but as a player or master one thing that would cut all the fun and belief in campaign is a god talking to players asking for a favor or starting a quest.

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When I'm playing and a god show up all I think is "lame"...

I guess you should retire the characters at 20th level then, because it kind of is hard to say that the PC's should never meet gods when they are demigods themselves (or at the very least no longer mortal).