Quintessential Wizard 4e -- Anyone have it?

[Imban]

I hope that makes more sense.

It does. If you were personally experiencing a problem with it, it's likely that these kind of feats would provoke the same players into doing the same things that resulted in it being a problem in 3.5e. Which would be bad for you.

Meanwhile, I probably wouldn't let someone use those feats just because they've run off the rails on the crazy train and plunged into the abyss of broken.

 

[Jack99]

Meanwhile, I probably wouldn't let someone use those feats just because they've run off the rails on the crazy train and plunged into the abyss of broken.

Yeah, that was kind of what I was implying when I used the word "broken". Glad I am not the only one who thinks that.

I just wanted to add that that example is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the book. Not an isolated case of a nasty power creep (or in this case, perhaps it should be called a power leap).

Cheers

 

[Fifth Element]

It suffers from being written first in italian and them translated.

I can't yet comment on the mechanics, but I did want to mention this. Sometimes it's painfully apparent that it was either translated from another language, or written by someone for whom English is a second language.

 

[Sir Brennen]

An interesting contrast is what WotC did in the Adventure's Vault preview today: magical tattoos which give you an benefit that increases based on the number of healing surges you've already spent. So rather than eating into your healing resources and increasing the likelyhood of needing to stop and rest to recover that resource, it actually encourages pressing on when that resource is in shorter supply.

 

[SteveC]

I looked at this and had the same reaction as the older Quintessential books: the writers just don't "get" the underlying mechanics for the D&D system. I had much the same problem with a fair bit of the other third party books for 3X and even started to see it in some of the last WotC books (don't talk to me about Complete Mage or Complete Champion...ugh).

I'd suggest only picking the book up if you're going to mine it for ideas and deal with the content yourself,

--Steve

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

FYI, there's a [somewhat] favorable review of QW in Fictional Reality:

http://www.fictionalreality.org/archives/issues/fr34.pdf

(page 28)