D&D 4E Weekly Wrecana - Lucky Power a power source..

[Garthanos]

And I would find it very bland to have a single at-will with "modifiers".

The classic knights and those who enumerated them into illustrated books had maneuvers with names that are surprisingly poetic ...
like boar running down hill or similar things but "I hit it with my sword" won out.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Hmmmm, its a bit of an interesting contrast to the E-classes as Mearls designed them. These avoid many of the mechanical pitfalls of Slayer for instance (don't use MBA/RBA + stances for instance), though they do eschew most powers in return for simple damage boosts. I'd suggest recasting those boosts as actual powers, in the way Power Attack was formulated for the Knight and Slayer. If the wording is properly done then it allows for replacement with powers of other builds of your class (though obviously none such exist in this case, but as a general concept for E-like classes).

The same could be said for the 'Flourishes' and such, they can simply be recast as actual utility powers, since they seem to effectively BE such except in terms of formatting.

Its not a bad approach. I agree they're going to be boring to play for the most part, though not terribly much so. The only thing I don't really 'get' is why he sacrificed ACTUAL utility powers for the flourishes. This is the one area where the Buffoon in particular gets shortchanged. He's got to burn utility power slots to do stuff that would simply be part of the powers of normal classes.

 

[Garthanos]

The only thing I don't really 'get' is why he sacrificed ACTUAL utility powers for the flourishes. This is the one area where the Buffoon in particular gets shortchanged. He's got to burn utility power slots to do stuff that would simply be part of the powers of normal classes.

joxxer the Jynx definitely ought to have utility powers...

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

joxxer the Jynx definitely ought to have utility powers...

Well, its added complexity, which Wrecan was trying to avoid, but the cost is pretty huge. In any case he added another complexity to combat, though perhaps its a smaller one? I don't know.

 

[Tony Vargas]

[h=2]In Memorum to Mark Womack "Wrecan"

Lucky Power 2: Buffons, the Lucky Strikers

A common complaint I hear, particularly those who played D&D during the TSR years, is that all of the classes in 4e are very complicated.

archive.org says this was posted on April 7...
...meh, six days late.

 

[Garthanos]

fixed some formatting to make it readable in dark mode