The Pixie is up!

[Argyle King]

Could things such as doors be considered objects which are sized for medium characters? I could see shrink being used as an easy way to bypass a locked door or perhaps making a bridge smaller so as to make it more difficult for an enemy to cross.

 

[Incenjucar]

Could things such as doors be considered objects which are sized for medium characters? I could see shrink being used as an easy way to bypass a locked door or perhaps making a bridge smaller so as to make it more difficult for an enemy to cross.

Nah. Until the object was removed from the landscape or architecture it would simply be a part of a much larger object. If a pixie wants to shrink a door they have to yank it off its hinges first.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Nah. Until the object was removed from the landscape or architecture it would simply be a part of a much larger object. If a pixie wants to shrink a door they have to yank it off its hinges first.

This is true, but I CAN still think of a slew of ways that a Pixie could use that power. It would be a great way to smuggle stuff into some place for instance. How about shrinking a whole lot of stuff and then dropping it in a sack? Kinda the poor man's bag of holding. Want to steal a statue? Heh, well, it is a lot easier if it is 6 inches high... The limitations placed on the power will deal with a number of situations, but not all of them. Creative pixie players are going to find some rather interesting ways to use Shrink.

 

[Siberys]

Shrink doesn't affect weight, though, so that statue'll still be a couple hundred pounds, assuming we're talking a man-sized statue...

 

[Incenjucar]

This is true, but I CAN still think of a slew of ways that a Pixie could use that power. It would be a great way to smuggle stuff into some place for instance. How about shrinking a whole lot of stuff and then dropping it in a sack? Kinda the poor man's bag of holding. Want to steal a statue? Heh, well, it is a lot easier if it is 6 inches high... The limitations placed on the power will deal with a number of situations, but not all of them. Creative pixie players are going to find some rather interesting ways to use Shrink.

Absolutely. Shrink is one of the most interesting powers in the game, and pixies are the natural smugglers and thieves of the Feywild.

 

[Tony Vargas]

II could see a flying, turning-invisible, tiny PCs, though - at Paragon. Maybe 'Pixie' could've been a Gnome Paragon Path, where the gnome goes deeper into it's feyness and shrinks & grows wings. Hey, Dragonborn 'Scions of Arkhosia' grow wings, so why not?

And, what the heck, here it is:

Vassal of Mab

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I like the synergy WotC used between their Tiny size and Pick Expertise (extra damage vs. larger enemies) to encourage picks-ey pixies.

Sad Trombone






(I'm sorry, that was really uncalled for.)

 

[ForeverSlayer]

I might be coming with this really late but has anyone noticed that the two-handed heavy war pick as the "small" property?

 

[Klaus]

I might be coming with this really late but has anyone noticed that the two-handed heavy war pick as the "small" property?

It's so it can be used by gnomes, since picks are a traditional weapon for D&D gnomes.

 

[ForeverSlayer]

It's so it can be used by gnomes, since picks are a traditional weapon for D&D gnomes.

Well since a gnome can use it a Pixie could use it. That's a d12 in the hands of a Pixie. Who needs a Fullblade when you can use a two-handed heavy war pick?