The Pixie is up!

[Neverfate]

Has anyone figured out how long it's going to take for a 30th level pixie, thats decked out in gear, to shrink all that gear back down after an extended rest?

This is my only issue with the race. I immediately thought of this. If you're pressed for time, you might not even be able to carry everything you haven't shrunken down yet. Bag of Holding becomes a necessity at that point.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

*sigh*

...The new size ends at the end of your next extended rest unless the item is on your person.

This means that you don't have to keep re-shrinking your equipped gear. It's a non-issue.

Really.

Furthermore, pixies also get Pixie Dust, which lets them grant their ally a fly move once per encounter, so Shrink is *not* a "wasted power" - it is more like a freebie. Much like how changelings get two because their shapeshift is not enough on its own, so they threw in another one.

 

[ForeverSlayer]

*sigh*

This means that you don't have to keep re-shrinking your equipped gear. It's a non-issue.

Really.

Furthermore, pixies also get Pixie Dust, which lets them grant their ally a fly move once per encounter, so Shrink is *not* a "wasted power" - it is more like a freebie. Much like how changelings get two because their shapeshift is not enough on its own, so they threw in another one.

So they wasted a power that essentially gives the pixie the same qualities of a small character. Should have just made the pixie small to start with.

 

[Incenjucar]

Being able to ride a small creature, squeeze through extremely small things, use "vs larger than you" abilities against almost everything in the game, and being able to share spaces with other creatures opens up a vast array of possibilities in and out of combat.

Making them small for the purpose of weapon use is the cleanest way to do things while retaining those new possibilities.

 

[ForeverSlayer]

Being able to ride a small creature, squeeze through extremely small things, use "vs larger than you" abilities against almost everything in the game, and being able to share spaces with other creatures opens up a vast array of possibilities in and out of combat.

Making them small for the purpose of weapon use is the cleanest way to do things while retaining those new possibilities.

I thought most of the "larger than you" abilities were against enemies that are one cat size larger.

Edit: So they need to sacrifice common sense for cleanness?

 

[SnowleopardVK]

Nothing like taking some nine year old girl who is all pumped about playing a pixie knight and slamming her face-first into the brick wall that is D&D size rules, artificial altitude limits, opportunity attack weirdness, and "it's balanced and that's all the justification we need!" reasoning.

I admit it, I'm clearly a nine year old girl. XD

I'm actually now considering buying 4e books entirely so that I can play a pixie. I care less about the mechanics than about the "YAYI'MAFAERIE!" though, but yeah these do look a little brick wall-ish.

...If there has ever been a race suitable for my personality, this is it...

 

[Dice4Hire]

i admit it, i'm clearly a nine year old girl. Xd

...if there has ever been a race suitable for my personality, this is it...

tmi

 

[Obryn]

So they wasted a power that essentially gives the pixie the same qualities of a small character. Should have just made the pixie small to start with.

So first you're upset that a Pixie at Epic tier will have to spend a bunch of time re-sizing their stuff every day, and when you're shown that you didn't even read the power in question, you're mad that they don't?

You're not just shifting goalposts, you're moving them between the end zones. I understand you feel obliged to be perpetually negative; it'd be nice if you could at least choose a point and argue it.

Pixies are tiny because, presumably, people who want to play a pixie want to play a Tiny race - a pixie, not a hobbit with wings. They can resize stuff because otherwise they use different equipment from everyone else, making a nightmare for DMs and players both; it's a way to have a Tiny character that isn't gimped on gear.

If you're worried about Invisibility, remember Racial Utilities. I expect it will be one of their choices. (The gear-shrinking power is extra; their real Racial Power is basically the githyanki racial power.) If they are going oldschool, they might even have some sort of Otto's Irresistible Dance option at some point.

-O

 

[Incenjucar]

I thought most of the "larger than you" abilities were against enemies that are one cat size larger.

Edit: So they need to sacrifice common sense for cleanness?

Hell yes.

This is a cinematic fantasy game designed for fun times not for "If wizards were real they'd walk like dis"

 

[blalien]

So first you're upset that a Pixie at Epic tier will have to spend a bunch of time re-sizing their stuff every day, and when you're shown that you didn't even read the power in question, you're mad that they don't?

ForeverSlayer thrives on complaining about things that don't matter. The less they matter, the angrier they make him. If we stopped responding to him he'd go away. (I say with no sense of irony)

Mod Note: Ad hominem is usually rude, and always weak rhetoric. Please stop trying to dismiss the person, rather than the points they make. Thanks. ~Umbran

The pixie looks a little clunky, but I imagine once you actually play a couple sessions it will all make sense. There are really only two new rules the average player will need to learn: how the altitude limit works and what happens when the pixie shares another creature's space.