Unearthed Arcana Variant Rules - Previews and Questions

[Kai Lord]

Hmm. Amazon street date is Feb. 25. I hope WotC is right.

Yeah but Amazon probably means Feb. 25, 2005, which would be about a standard release for them if everyone else gets it now.

 

[Aaron L]

Oh goody goody I LOVE these kinds of books!!! I want it now!!

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Wilderness Rogue?

Bah. They already have one of these in the 3.5 player's handbook, only the blasphemers called it a ranger.

 

[Olive]

I was thinking this would be good, but now I'm starting to think that I need to reset my campaign! Well, it will depend on how it works, but some really cool looking ideas in here!

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I am going to guess that Racial Paragon Classes are an expansion of the Paragon template in the ELH.

Perhaps they're "High" races? Like, say, Numenoreans were High Humans?

I very much doubt they'll look like the Paragon template from ELH, as that'd be more powerful than most campaigns could usefully use.

I'm also intrigued by the "Reducing Level Adjustments" section.

Brad

 

[Olive]

Hmmm... that PrC paladin is a bit wierd. First up, I like to try to get the paladin away from the knight in shining armour stereotype, so I don't like the mounted combat feat req much. The cleric spell casting is also strange, or at least would remove all of those interesting paladin only spells!

 

[Kanegrundar]

I've been looking forward to this book for a while now. I'm most interested in the class options (totem barbarians will likely become standard IMC's), reducing level adjustments, and a couple of the combat options. If nothing else, it should make for some interesting conversation.

Kane

 

[dcollins]

Feh. It's very common, and quite defensible -- the material from the preview is from UA, so it doesn't need a seperate copyright. (You don't think they registered the preview seperate from the book with the US gov't, so you?)

Okay, if this is actually an excerpt from UA, then I concede that it looks correct. Perhaps you've got an advance copy that allows you to know that -- but the WOTC web page communicated something different, calling it a "web enhancement", and implying it had been created separately from the book.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hmmm... that PrC paladin is a bit wierd. First up, I like to try to get the paladin away from the knight in shining armour stereotype, so I don't like the mounted combat feat req much. The cleric spell casting is also strange, or at least would remove all of those interesting paladin only spells!

The archetypal paladin have always been the mounted knight in shining armor. IIRC, the original Unearthed Arcana designated the paladin as a cavalier sub-class.

The divine spellcasting is interesting, and may make up for the lack of combat prowess compared to a single-classed paladin character, unless one picks up more levels in the fighter class and just one level of cleric prior to Prestige Paladin.

Nevertheless, it still follows the 3e Paladin core class. [For Advanced Users Only] If you want Paladin variants, by all means modify the class.

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

I hope we hear from more of them here!

I'm one of them... You may post your questions and I'll try to answer some in about 9 hours from now (because I need some sleep first). Good Night!