The Vistani Return

[Phaezen]

As a side note, looking at the Dragon 380 table of contents they seem to be spoiling us this month:

The Seeker Bebut, The Vistani (including feats, rituals and magic items), Barbarian Essentials, Wizard Essentials, Channel Divinity: The Raven Queen, Abyssal Genasi and Bazaar of the Bizarre: Dragonshard Items.

 

[MrMyth]

Speaking of quality:

Are there erratas for the two handed weapon fighter article? The level 16 at will utility seems just too good...

I think one of the devs indicated on the WotC forums that they were going to find a way to fix it, but simply had not had the chance between the article release and the time the issue was compiled.

 

[TerraDave]

Ok, here it is:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Playing Vistani, Part 2)

Apropriately, the heritage feats gives you an "evil eye" power and there are a bunch of feats that key off it. Also a paragon path.

Guessing we will see a 3rd article with rituals and magic items.

 

[Klaus]

Love Love Love Vistani Fencer. +4 to weapon damage aginst evil eye target (which already grants combat advantage)? That's awesome for dual-wielders!

 

[JPL]

These inspired me to get out "Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani" for the first time in ten years or so. Great book, and great articles.

Gypsies are the new pirates.

 

[Khur]

Land pirates.

 

[Baron Opal]

One of the things that I really like about it is that you can easily extrapolate the Vistani into a guild or group that gives concrete benfits to its members. Especially when you combine it with the Grandmaster's training from DMG2.

 

[fireinthedust]

I think multi-racial Vistani are ultimately a good thing. Real life Roma are an ethnic group stuck between our racial stereotypes and economic and social problems that are really hard for them: forced to be Roma, but with a history of crime as well as oppression. It's complex.

However, the classic "Gypsy" (which is nothing like real-life Roma) is a nifty plot device. It's good that we're eventually differentiating between them and the actual racial group.

 

[TerraDave]

Guessing we will see a 3rd article with rituals and magic items.

And here it is:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Playing Vistani, Part 3)

As always, I am liking the rituals more then the items.