Warlords of the Accordlands - Wow!

[Driddle]

So what's the deal -- warriors who play accordians?
I assume a polka-playing bard class is available as well...

 

[Kunimatyu]

Everybody Polka!
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Brd 4, Accordianlands Warrior3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Target: All creatures within 100ft(including caster)
Duration: 1d4+1 rounds
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subjects feel an undeniable urge to polka and begin doing so, complete with foot shuffling and tapping. The spell effect makes it impossible for the subjects to do anything other than caper and prance in place. The effect imposes a -4 penalty to Armor Class and a -10 penalty on Reflex saves, and it negates any AC bonus granted by a shield the targets hold. The dancing subjects provoke attacks of opportunity each round on their turns.

 

[Psion]

Point.

The Monsters and Lairs book looks neat -- they've got multiple CR versions of the standard monsters, and included lairs for easy adventures. I hope Wizards pays attention for 4E -- 4 orcs of varying levels + lair beats having orcs, rasts, ravids, and phantom fungi.

Do you have it? Of the 3, this is the one that was still on preorder for me.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Do you have it? Of the 3, this is the one that was still on preorder for me.

I do not, I just read the website blurb. It's the one I'm most curious about, since I probably won't play a game in the Accordlands, but I'm always up for monster books.

 

[jgbrowning]

Everybody Polka!
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Brd 4, Accordianlands Warrior3
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Target: All creatures within 100ft(including caster)
Duration: 1d4+1 rounds
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subjects feel an undeniable urge to polka and begin doing so, complete with foot shuffling and tapping. The spell effect makes it impossible for the subjects to do anything other than caper and prance in place. The effect imposes a -4 penalty to Armor Class and a -10 penalty on Reflex saves, and it negates any AC bonus granted by a shield the targets hold. The dancing subjects provoke attacks of opportunity each round on their turns. The subject gains a -4 circumstance modifier to any attempted seductions against those who have ever seen the subject polka. Ever. Permanently.

FIFY....

joe b.

 

[Kunimatyu]

FIFY....

joe b.

That definitely belongs in the errata.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I imagine it was cheaper to print them all at the same time though.

Its possible, but that's usually only the case for a large run on a single book. Multiple products require their own plates for the press. I may be wrong, but I doubt they could have saved for doing them all at once unless they got some sort of preferred discount since they were doing four products.

 

[trancejeremy]

All I can say is, "Wow!" The setting book and master codex is eesentially exactly the kind of campaign setting I have been after for the past several years. Evil is truely evil, not some shade of PC gray. Heroes are in short supply and the BBEG isn't stupid. This is definitely going to be a campaign that I am going to run in the near future.

Doesn't that pretty much also describe Midnight? (And maybe a couple other settings)

 

[DaveMage]

Doesn't that pretty much also describe Midnight? (And maybe a couple other settings)

The only book I've received so far is the Campaign book (two others should arrive Wednesday). The premise is basically that the Medusan Lords have killed all the heroes in the world and it's up to your 1st level PCs to rise up and defeat them.

Unlike Midnight (where the BBEG is a god), the Medusan Lords are not divine (though they are high level, of course).

I'm amazed that the campaign book is 512 pages because the ad copy on the AEG site indicated it would be a page count in the 300s. It's got me curious as to how big the other books have become.

 

[kilamanjaro]

I have the monsters and lairs book. It's the only one I've gotten so far. It's a good read, and the having the lairs for some of the monsters is nice, but... there are a lot of errors. A lot of 3.0isms seem to have slipped in to the book and quite a few CR are way too low. 8 HD monsters that cast spells as 8th level necromancers but are only CR 4, for example. I haven't read all of it yet, but I'd give the first have 3.5 stars out of 5.