Spellscars= dragonmarks?

[pathfinderq1]

So I just picked up the 4e FR book (along with Martial Power). In looking through that, I found the section on Spellscars- and it seems very much like what I might expect a 4e version of dragonmarks to look like when the Eberron supplement comes out. For the FR setting, most of the powers and fluff have the look of Aberrant marks, but it is easy to see how similar mechanics could create each House line. Did anyone else have the same impression?

 

[Caliban]

So I just picked up the 4e FR book (along with Martial Power). In looking through that, I found the section on Spellscars- and it seems very much like what I might expect a 4e version of dragonmarks to look like when the Eberron supplement comes out. For the FR setting, most of the powers and fluff have the look of Aberrant marks, but it is easy to see how similar mechanics could create each House line. Did anyone else have the same impression?

Yes. I would expect dragonmarks to work pretty much the same way.

 

[DerekSTheRed]

Not only do I expect Dragonmarks to work the same way, I plan on using the same mechanics for my homebrewed 4E Birthright Blood Powers.

 

[Engilbrand]

I thought that until I saw the Gladiator article. I think that they're going to work more like the Multiclass feats that they have for weapons. You multiclass into Dragonmarked, take a couple of powers, and they get stronger as you level.
I think that there are too many Spellscar powers to reflect Dragonmarks.
Maybe they'll just mix the ideas.

 

[FireLance]

Yes, multi-class only classes could be used to represent a whole host of concepts, including:

1. Eberron's dragonmarks
2. Birthright's bloodlines
3. Planescape's factions, and other organizations that grant its members special abilities
4. Racial paragon classes
5. Specializations within a class, e.g. specialty priests, wizards of a specific school, paladins of a certain order, rogues of a particular guild

 

[Rechan]

I hate to rain on the parade, but Keith Baker gave a chat on a website a few weeks ago. I actually raised the question of the Dragonmark/Spellscarred crossover, and he responded vaguely that it would be different.

Of course, I realize just how un-official and sketchy I sound. Just sayin' it may not play out that way.

 

[Mort_Q]

Yes, multi-class only classes could be used to represent a whole host of concepts, including:

1. Eberron's dragonmarks
2. Birthright's bloodlines
3. Planescape's factions, and other organizations that grant its members special abilities
4. Racial paragon classes
5. Specializations within a class, e.g. specialty priests, wizards of a specific school, paladins of a certain order, rogues of a particular guild

6. Legacy Items

 

[Nukereal]

Mechanic of Weapon Mastery with Gladiator's Article isn't better for Eberron's dragonmarks?

 

[Shroomy]

I think that spellscars would be a good fit for modelling aberrant dragonmarks, but not the standard dragonmarks in 3.5e (which will need a revision for 4e anyways given that most of those spells are rituals, etc.)

 

[DreamChaser]

So I just picked up the 4e FR book (along with Martial Power). In looking through that, I found the section on Spellscars- and it seems very much like what I might expect a 4e version of dragonmarks to look like when the Eberron supplement comes out. For the FR setting, most of the powers and fluff have the look of Aberrant marks, but it is easy to see how similar mechanics could create each House line. Did anyone else have the same impression?

I absolutely hate this idea. It essentially says that you can be either multiclassed or have a dragonmark.

Because dragonmarks do not give much in the way of attack powers, they make no sense for the same structure as multiclassing / spellscars. I agree that aberrant marks would make sense for this.

A standard dragonmark should be a series of feats plus an epic destiny. Least and lesser marks would be Heroic Feats. Greater mark, a paragon feat. Siberys marks would be an epic destiny. The math even works on this last part. The Heir of Siberys PC in 3.0 could be started at 15 but they didn't get a mark until 16. This equates to 24 for 4e which is darn close where the utility power comes in for the epic destiny.

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