Unearthed Arcana Variant Rules - Previews and Questions

[DonAdam]

Another option for a gestalt campaign: everyone is a multiclasses psychic character. I thought about sorcerer, but with psions you don't have the stat suck; your fighter can use the Str discipline, your rogue the Dex, etc. And you avoid the armor issue.

 

[Gundark]

Is there defensive bonuses like in star wars d20?

 

[Nifelhein]

I was wondering on the VP and WP rules, there are some problems we are debating on the rules forum right now, is the preview all there is about it in the book? Because I think they keep some spots open that should be taken care of...

Anyway, just some general info woudl be fine, if the sections topics could be posted it would be even better.

And thanks in advance, I know this is not all that easy and also, that you have been doing this for some days now...

 

[Felon]

It takes away the benefit of fighter types to have high ACs and make all the classes about equal in this regard.

They don't really have that advantage right now, so I don't see a big difference in that respect.

This new book is pretty lame in my opinion and has very few good uses. It takes away even more of the "use your imagination" part of the game.

What are you talking about exactly? How do offering new rules detract from utilizing imagination? Offering up options encourages people to try new things.

I place it in the gruop of those "player option" rule books that came out for 2nd edition towards the end of its reign.

Well, again, offering options in and of itself is not a bad thing. The fact is, it was the lack of options in the 2e core system made it pretty unappealing to lots of folks. The 2e option books were bad because of their poorly-designed content, not simply because they were option books. Prematurely lumping Unearthed Arcana in with them based on sketchy info is kind of lame.

Just my opinion.

Sounds like a hasty one.

 

[Acid_crash]

All I know is that I'm getting this book, even if I have to *gasp* sell other less used books to get it.

 

[sbrengard]

I just learned that UA will be available from my FLGS this Friday.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I just learned that UA will be available from my FLGS this Friday.

Same here. I guess I'm going to cancel my Amazon order. March 5th is too long for me to wait.

 

[Shazman]

Amazon has been really bad about that for a while. A couple years back, they used to get things out quickly. Now you'd be lucky, if you get something from them two or three weeks after it's been released. You might want to try walmart.com. You'll save just as much money, and get it a lot faster. Mine order from them is supposed to be shipped tomorrow or Friday.

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

Vitality and Wound Points: Section topics

Vitality Points
Wound Points
Critical Hits
Injury and Death
-nonlethal damage
-0 vitality points
-taking wound damage
-0 wound points
-stable characters and recovery
Special Damage Situations
-coup de grace
-massive damage
Healing
-natural healing
-assisted healing
-magical healing
NPCs and Monsters
-creatures without constitution points
-bonus hit points
-damage reduction
-fast healing
-regeneration
Monster Challenge Ratings

and a Behind the Curtain Sidebar

 

[sbrengard]

Sounds just like the release at wizards