Urban Class Features (Cityscape web enhancement)

[Li Shenron]

DnD Druids are conceived as being in touch with the 'environment' and the Urban environment is as much a living environment as is a forest or cave system.

Really? Are you sure? AFAIK D&D Druids are conceived as being in touch with nature, not "the environment".

 

[Li Shenron]

I certainly see how druids shifting into objects could come across as silly, but I think it's all in the way you make use of it. I can just as easily see it being fairly creepy and even menacing. And it makes them into fantastic urban scouts and spies.

I think the idea of someone shapechanging into animated object is great, but the unfortunate circumstance is that the best ability to tie this variant with is the druid's wildshape.

I'd never use this with a druid. But I could use it as a variant Polymorph Self spell or magic item.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Weird. And, if you read up on Wyatt Earp, stuff like that probably actually happened. In his entire career as a gunfighter and lawman, he never took a bullet. NEVER.

I'm certainly no Earp expert, but I'm going to guess that he probably wasn't standing out in the open giving his opponents a clear target quite like he was in the movie, though.

(Not to say that never getting shot during that period isn't a pretty wicked accomplishment, by any means.)

 

[Razz]

Wow, a ton of alternate class features and more to come. These things will be getting out of hand, soon.

And people complained about PrC :\

I just had two of my players double their ranks in Tumble by switching out Ride for it thanks to Skilled City-Dweller and neither of them dwell in cities (one's a wilderness loving Ranger and the other a drow-hunting Psychic Warrior)

 

[Mouseferatu]

I just had two of my players double their ranks in Tumble by switching out Ride for it thanks to Skilled City-Dweller and neither of them dwell in cities (one's a wilderness loving Ranger and the other a drow-hunting Psychic Warrior)

Then why permit them to do it? These options--like every option ever presented in the history of the game--are under the DM's purview. If you don't think these alternate features fit those characters, and it sounds like they don't, then don't allow them to take them.

 

[Greg K]

Wow, a ton of alternate class features and more to come. These things will be getting out of hand, soon.

And people complained about PrC :\

I just had two of my players double their ranks in Tumble by switching out Ride for it thanks to Skilled City-Dweller and neither of them dwell in cities (one's a wilderness loving Ranger and the other a drow-hunting Psychic Warrior)

Then learn to say "No". It's really not that hard.