Races and Classes--I has it!

[Irda Ranger]

After reading Pathfinder, it occurred to me that goblins are the critters from the movie Gremlins. Little sadistic dark-humored bastards that live for mayhem. Casting them in the mold of Gremlins makes me not want to give them a culture, or even distinctive "females".

What's your Maguai?

 

[RodneyThompson]

What's your Maguai?

Bugbears.

 

[Rechan]

What's your Maguai?

Well, I don't think that I'd have maguai. Goblins might actually breed when people have malicious or cruel thoughts. Every time you have a mean, hateful thought, a goblin is born in the Feywild.

 

[WayneLigon]

Books-a-Million has broken the street date: I have it OK, I'd originally planned to read this sucker in the store but I bought it because it has many more in-depth design stories than the Rules Compendium.

 

[WayneLigon]

Yes, and no. "Sidhe" is actually just a shortened form of "Aes Sidhe", or People of the Hills.

Most modern fantasy, though, uses 'Sidhe' for 'tall elves that look like beautiful humans, maybe with pointed ears'. That's the image most readers are going to associate with the term.

 

[Rechan]

Can anyone with R&C answer this:

Do they talk about Siloing abilities at all?

Is Siloing like talent trees, where you have to focus on one of several options (Fighters being offense, defense or hinder/control), or is it more like 'You get one offensive, one defensive, and one utility power per level'?

 

[WhatGravitas]

Can anyone with R&C answer this:

Do they talk about Siloing abilities at all?

Is Siloing like talent trees, where you have to focus on one of several options (Fighters being offense, defense or hinder/control), or is it more like 'You get one offensive, one defensive, and one utility power per level'?

They haven't really talked about it - but at one point, Stephen Schubert uses the terminology "silo": He talks about the Tome of Magic Binder and calls the power acquisition method "silo" of powers, which are have a common theme.

In the same part, he also talks about the shadowcaster (and his tree-like powers) and the truenamer (and his repeatedly usable abilities) and also says that some of these concepts are incorporated into 4E, as the warlock will get a "small selection of thematically linked class abilities", which is a concept of the Binder.

And I've seen something else here, not sure, if that was mentioned before: Warlocks have as bargain types Fey, Infernal, Star (I know that we know of these three) and Vestige.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Reaper Steve]

And I've seen something else here, not sure, if that was mentioned before: Warlocks have as bargain types Fey, Infernal, Star (I know that we know of these three) and Vestige.

This brings up a good point--what is more current.... R&C or the design articles?

Th design article in Oct mentioned three pact sources... infernal, fey, or shadowy. That's pretty different than R&C. I thought I saw somewhere (maybe it was speculation) of an elemental pact as well.

EDIT: My guess is that R&C has the more current version. I base that on the Wizard entry in R&C matching the 2nd version of its design article (w/ orb, staff, and wand.)

 

[Rechan]

EDIT: My guess is that R&C has the more current version. I base that on the Wizard entry in R&C matching the 2nd version of its design article (w/ orb, staff, and wand.)

The R&C was finalized in August. The warlock article was written in October.

 

[Reaper Steve]

The R&C was finalized in August. The warlock article was written in October.

Yeah, which is why my original guess was the Oct article as the more current. BUt since R&C matches the newer wizard article, it gave me something to hang my hat on.

Although, at this point, it does seem easier to scale back from 4 to 3 for space and/o time constraints. Who knows?

[Commune w/ Scott Rouse]
Which is more current, the R&C Warlock info, or the Oct design article about the same?

(What, your R&C didn't come with a scroll of 5th level cleric spells?)