Wizards designer posts - Andy Collins

[Li Shenron]

Got it in one.

Finally saw my primary school degree give its fruit

 

[The_Universe]

Substitution Levels

As somebody without the Planar Handbook... What the heck are these?

 

[ecliptic]

Medium Save Progression

Level Save
1 +1
2 +2
3 +2
4 +2
5 +3
6 +3
7 +4
8 +4
9 +4
10 +5
11 +5
12 +6
13 +6
14 +6
15 +7
16 +7
17 +8
18 +8
19 +8
20 +9

 

[Knight Otu]

As somebody without the Planar Handbook... What the heck are these?

Going by the previews, they are levels that you can take in a class instead of a normal level, giving up one ability for another. For planar substitution levels, you have to fulfill one of four prerequisites:

• Have 1 rank of Knowledge (the planes).
• Have a heritage feat (described later in this chapter).
• Have the extraplanar subtype when on the Material Plane.
• Have visited a plane other than the Material Plane.

You can read previews of Planar Substitution levels here and here.

 

[jmucchiello]

Haven't seen SW, would be interesting what is the intermediate progression between 1/3 and 2+1/2... perhaps 1+2/5?

Got it in one.

Have you considered working for WotC R&D?

Technically, the progression between 0 + lvl/3 and 2 + lvl/2 should be 1 + 5*lvl/12 since 5/12 is halfway between 4/12 (1/3) and 6/12 (1/2). But the set of numbers produced is ugly compared to the 1+2*lvl/5 progression.

      5/12
level Save
  1    +1
  2    +1
  3    +2
  4    +2
  5    +3   
  6    +3
  7    +3
  8    +4
  9    +4
 10    +5
 11    +5
 12    +6
 13    +6
 14    +6
 15    +7
 16    +7
 17    +8
 18    +8
 19    +8
 20    +9

 

[The_Universe]

DOUBLE POST

 

[The_Universe]

Going by the previews, they are levels that you can take in a class instead of a normal level, giving up one ability for another. For planar substitution levels, you have to fulfill one of four prerequisites:

• Have 1 rank of Knowledge (the planes).
• Have a heritage feat (described later in this chapter).
• Have the extraplanar subtype when on the Material Plane.
• Have visited a plane other than the Material Plane.

You can read previews of Planar Substitution levels here and here.

So, it's like a 1 level prestige class?

 

[primemover003]

Nope it replaces a level in your normal class. You'd take 4 levels of Sor, then 1 of Planar sorcerer at 5th. At 6th you continue the normal Sor progression. There are 3 levels for each core class you can swap out. You don't have to take all 3, nor do you have to take them in Order (afaik)

 

[Liquidsabre]

Hats off to MerricB for all that wonderful crunchiness there, thanks!


What the heck does a Sorc miss out for taking a level of planar sorc?? rofl, unless WotC plans on revising the core sorc...

 

[Klaus]

Spell advancement, iirc. He doesn;t improve his spells, but gains a special ability in return.