Races of the Wild - First Impressions

[Mistwell]

Any book that makes Elves a more viable option for players who want to play wizards, I am all for it. Personally, excluding the non-core books, I've thought the elves should just have ranger as their favored class and be done with it.

 

[Darkness]

Tolkien wrote the eddas?!

Wow.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the D&D incarnations.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the D&D incarnations.

Even then, Elves and Dwarves are both very Norse...which Tolkien, of course, borrowed from.

As was said...that's a whole different thread, though.

 

[Darkness]

Even then, Elves and Dwarves are both very Norse.

Yeah, Tolkien's... inspiration... is certainly clear. Still, many myths vary from each other, and Tolkien possibly made his (preferred) version the best-known one, in the US and many other places, today.

 

[Sammael]

Are you banning the PHB too?

The cleric is a bit on the strong side, ya know.

One of my first house rules was to remove Heavy Armor Proficiency from clerics. I also tweaked a number of domains, and rewrote the turn undead rules..

In the incarnation of d20 I'm writing, clerics won't have access to all spontaneous cure x wounds spells from the start; they'll gain increased access to it as they gain cleric levels. This will prevent people from taking one level of cleric and then enjoying all benefits of the class (except turn undead) from multiclassing into PrCs that grants spellcasting.

 

[Mistwell]

One of my first house rules was to remove Heavy Armor Proficiency from clerics. I also tweaked a number of domains, and rewrote the turn undead rules..

In the incarnation of d20 I'm writing, clerics won't have access to all spontaneous cure x wounds spells from the start; they'll gain increased access to it as they gain cleric levels. This will prevent people from taking one level of cleric and then enjoying all benefits of the class (except turn undead) from multiclassing into PrCs that grants spellcasting.

Ah, okay, you're one of "those" people.

 

[Sammael]

I do not trust blindly in the "ingenuity" of WotC designers, many of whom couldn't balance the rules if their lives depended on it. (this includes both current and former employees)

Besides, most of my house rules were made after excessive playtesting, something WotC doesn't seem to do anymore.

 

[snb1131]

Since RotW hasn't arrived here in the US quite yet, just a quick question...

Is the Woodland Sniper feat the same feat as the Able Sniper feat from the WotC main site preview? If not, what does it do?

 

[Vocenoctum]

Quick Question: almost all other racial level's have had a trade-off for the power boost, what's the trade off for the elf wizard?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Tolkien created Elves, Halflings, Dwarves, and virtually all of what makes up D&D. Don't even bash Tolkien.
*Gets out a very large stick*

According to Gary Gygax, writers like Robert E. Howard, Fritz Lieber, and Jack Vance were much bigger influences on D&D than Tolkien was.