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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 4:07AM
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- Senior Volunteer Community Lead
- Dragon Slayer
- D&DI News Guide
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Backdrop: Cormyrby Brian R. JamesThe kingdom of Cormyr is old yet strong and vigorous. This civilized land carved itself out of a wilder territory through grit, bravery, and determination. Though the land has a reputation of goodly rule, sometimes Cormyr has had to make difficult choices to ensure its security. Its most contested border is along shadowy Netheril and gluttonous Sembia, though Cormyr also borders the hazardous Stonelands, the Tunlands, and the Stormhorns and Thunderpeaks.
Dominated by humankind, the Land of the Purple Dragon has been ruled by House Obarskyr for over fourteen centuries, with the strong backing of a legion of magically potent warmages and an army of heavily armored knights on Cormyrian destriers. A mystical connection exists between the land and the people and creatures that inhabit it, which is little understood but demonstrably real and powerful.Discuss the article here!
WolfStar76
Community Advocate (SVCL) for D&D Organized Play, Avalon Hill, and the DCI/WPN
LFR Community Manager
DDi Guide
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 5:01AM
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- Stampeding Hybrid
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Cormyr was where my first character ever was from, so I am glad to see it as the first place featured in the new Backdrop articles. Overall it seemed decent to me, I especially liked the small cultural things under society. it really is the tiny things like that which make a place come alive.
I was dispointed by the Paragon Paths though. While I didn't mind them mechanically, in fact I enjoy that the Draeven Marauder can theoretically shift 10 squares in a turn if I am reading the abilities right. I did feel that they just didn't go with the article. The organizations the Paragon Paths are tied to were basically absent from the article, so they just felt a little tacked on. Otherwise though, I did like the article.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 7:32AM
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I assume the Luckbringer's powers should really be labeled Prayers instead of Exploits.
I'm also confused about which category each falls into. They're labeled as:
Luckbolt - Encounter Utility 12
Inauspicious Vulnerability - Encounter Attack 20
Divine Tilt - Encounter Attack 11 (with the header bar of a Daily)
First, one of the two attacks is presumably a daily and belongs at 20th, but which is it? Inauspicious Vulnerability which is labeled 20 or Divine Tilt which looks like it was headed towards being a Daily.
And why aren't they in normal order (11E/12U/20D)?
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 9:18AM
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The Channel Divinity Feat also makes no sense. It's a minor action with a trigger, which doesn't really work to begin with, and also refers to "when the luckbringer becomes bloodied", despite not having to be a luckbringer to have the feat.
I assume it's meant to be an immediate reaction with the same trigger, and refer to "you" instead of "the luckbringer"
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 9:52AM
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I assume it's meant to be an immediate reaction with the same trigger, and refer to "you" instead of "the luckbringer"
I just thought in that context "Luckbringer" was simply a reference to Tymora's clergy instead of someone who's actually taken the Luckbringer paragon path.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 10:12AM
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I just thought in that context "Luckbringer" was simply a reference to Tymora's clergy instead of someone who's actually taken the Luckbringer paragon path.
If so, that's still sloppy templating. You can't use words like that in power descriptions when there's already a defined game term IN THAT SAME ARTICLE that would cause confusion.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 10:30AM
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Info and article great...
Editing once again... not good. Kind of like the overwhelming number of changes made to the game in less than two months. Two years of game testing not one person discovered the errors. Now two months later and we have around 50 pages of changes to our brand new books. I feel sorry for the guys that actually paid to buy the DM's screen... One or two days with the product and already had to write all over it in order to fix whatever poor editing was done prior to its release. I almost feel like WOC owes us our money back so we can get a cleaned up copy of the p.ss p..r edited editions we currently have. Embarraasing and not acceptable. My new theme... is fire the editor. You will hear me say that a lot.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 11:08AM
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I assume the Luckbringer's powers should really be labeled Prayers instead of Exploits.
I'm also confused about which category each falls into. They're labeled as:
Luckbolt - Encounter Utility 12
Inauspicious Vulnerability - Encounter Attack 20
Divine Tilt - Encounter Attack 11 (with the header bar of a Daily)
First, one of the two attacks is presumably a daily and belongs at 20th, but which is it? Inauspicious Vulnerability which is labeled 20 or Divine Tilt which looks like it was headed towards being a Daily.
And why aren't they in normal order (11E/12U/20D)?
She get´s her action point feature at level 16 which is against "the rules" too, but his could very well be intentional.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 18, 2008 - 12:46PM
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Yeah the luckbringer seems totatlly out of whack and not sure how much is just an editing jumble.
From reading the power descriptions it looks like it should be:
Divine Tilt - Attack 11 encounter
Luckbolt - Utility 12 encounter
Inauspicious Vulnerability - Attack 20 daily
Not all the descriptors match in the article nor do the colors or order presented so this was based mostly by reading what the power's effects were.
The requirements for the Luckbringer of Tymora should probably include 'worships Tymora' rather than just cleric to clarify that a clerif of another diety couldn't take this path.
The feat doesn't give 'luckbringer of tymora' as a prerequisite, just worship tymora and have channel divinity feature which makes sense. The text of the feat power should probably say 'cleric' rather than 'luckbringer'.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 19, 2008 - 9:44PM
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Indeed, the Luckbringer needs some serious editing; I'm assuming Grazel is correct in his interpretation. And yes, the channel divinity feat is messed up as well, and should be an immediate interrupt or an immediate reaction.
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