WotC_Bruce serves the dragon

[Sitara]

I wonder how the star pact helped in killing the dragon. Hmm.

Maybe it increases the power of his blast...or say, maybe its like Elric calling on arioch!! Maybe a pact is like a really huge SUMMON; so a star pact SUMMON and you call up a huge ctulhu nastie from outer space that comes down and does massive damage to one foe. A demon pact and you SUMMON a host of daemons who rip apart a group of foes, etc etc.

Sweet!

 

[Voss]

I call upon the Zero Star Sagittarius! Sailor Moon, prepare for your doom!

 

[IanB]

I call upon the Zero Star Sagittarius! Sailor Moon, prepare for your doom!

10 minute animated cut scenes for summons really would be too much anime in my D&D.

 

[pukunui]

I'll be honest, I've got no idea what a Star pact is. I was hoping to hear some speculation on that.

I originally thought it would be a Vestige pact, but apparently they mention the two separately, so they can't be the same thing. The best I can come up with is Far Realms.

I'm not surprised that vestige was dropped. Vestige requires a much more in depth assumed setting than most other things in D&D. That was on one hand its biggest strength (by assuming a detailed setting, Tome of Magic crafted a power source that was intricately linked with, and which grew organically from, the world in which the players lived), and its biggest weakness (made it harder to port to other worlds besides the assumed one).

But... star?

If Races & Classes is anything to go by, a Star Pact is one made with "strange, magical intelligences associated with prominent stars". Sounds kind of like astrology almost ... but not really.