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06-20-2008, 09:41 PM #21
Just because the whole party are nobles doesn't mean that they are all equally good at being leaders of domains. So that was rather the point.
Second, the beauty of the free multi-classing of 3x was that you could decide just how much a character departed from being such a leader and specialized in something else.
On the Warlock: Can we not do the monk thing again? The idea of getting power by making deals with spirits is as old as the idea of 'magic', and I just think it's a really negative way to start the conversion: "Oh, by the way, these core classes are out.".
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06-20-2008, 10:41 PM #22
The question to me is 'how do we keep BR magic powerful but rare' with the existing spellcasting classes. I can read skill, courage and luck into most powers for the various fighter types, but splitting the spellcasters into 'true magic' and 'magicians' is looking tough.
PC's can always be exceptional, but some mechanic is needed for the hedgemage type that has enough magic to be burned at the stake but can't tap the real McCoy.
The easy restriction is 'no ability which causes damage' for the magicians - but I don't know if enough powers are left to give magicians a power progression...
People who play epic campaigns (I think from recollection that BR players split evenly between gritty and epic campaigners) should be fine without the magician, but I certainly want someone to make my spellcaster look good, provide potions and simple witchcraft, etc.
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06-20-2008, 10:54 PM #23
Indeed, the magic I have always found most appropriate for BR is divination, illusion, and enchantment. No damage in any of those (necessarily).
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06-20-2008, 11:06 PM #24
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Why not have Warlocks serve as magicians?
If you want magic without the proper blood, you have to make a pact with a spirit that could screw you. It makes "real" magic something difficult to achieve, while giving folks more options.
The problem with the Magician, IMO, is that divination has largely become a ritual thing, and illusion and enchantment have moved into the psychic power set. That, and the wizard class is a heck of a lot more balanced these days-having a class that's specifically "Weaker than wizard." is kind of weird, mechanically.
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06-20-2008, 11:30 PM #25
Sure its weird from a perspective that looks at the adventure level and thinks about combat classes being balanced. But, Its perfectly reasonable from a world-design perspective that includes both great wizards and hedge mages, and doesn't want to simply say that the old lady that makes love philters and healing tonics out by the old bridge isn't simply a lower level version of the High Mage Alies, but something different.
Given that I could do three things in a BR campaign, design a world that satisfies a sense of coherence, tell a cool story, and balance characters for adventures, I would prefer to achieve them in that order, and if I never quite got around to the third, I'd still feel OK.
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06-21-2008, 05:02 AM #26
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ThatSeanGuy wrote:
Why not have Warlocks serve as magicians?
If you want magic without the proper blood, you have to make a pact with a spirit that could screw you. It makes "real" magic something difficult to achieve, while giving folks more options.
The problem with the Magician, IMO, is that divination has largely become a ritual thing, and illusion and enchantment have moved into the psychic power set. That, and the wizard class is a heck of a lot more balanced these days-having a class that`s specifically "Weaker than wizard." is kind of weird, mechanically.
The Magician was never only a "weaker Wizard". It was a double specialized Wizard in Illusion and Divination who got some additional abilities of a Thief. Something like a sneaky Eldritch Knight already in 2E ;-)
And the whole class of magician underlines the importance and rareness of "true" wizards in Birthright.Last edited by Thelandrin; 06-21-2008 at 09:38 AM. Reason: Edited for clarity.
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06-21-2008, 01:41 PM #27
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06-21-2008, 05:52 PM #28
We have a couple of way to deal with magicians.
1. Turn them into a strict NPC class and make seperate rules for them.
2. Create a new class and just make up attack powers that are far weaker than the wizards. They can still have something, but half as powerful or more.
3. Take the wizard class and adjust. Make any At-will attack power for a wizard an encounter attack power for a magician. Make any encounter power from a wizard a daily power for magician. Any daily power make it weekly or remove completely and replace with another use of a utility power.
On the idea of nobles, I am still against it myself. The original 2nd edition had no need for them and every ruler was an adventuring class character. I agree that having character class that excels at domain control would unbalance the other folks (every NPC leader.)
Lets just have an extensive list of feats and powers available to blooded or noble born characters. As they level, if they are spending almost all of their feats and powers on domain actions and boosts, they are going to be terrible at their class because they have ignored it over the years. There is no need to create a possible unbalancing class, not to mention if we do create a new class then we would still have to follow the leveling path (1-30 powers) in the 4th edition players handbook that gives at-will combat powers and encounter combat powers specificly .... which means we would have to create an entire new leveling mechanic that I am strongly against.
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06-21-2008, 06:45 PM #29
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I agree with the noble class should be begoned, but the druid magician and bard should still continue even if we create our own versions of the druid and bard then they can be unique to BR. Magician are always an intriguing class.
With the new classes we need to come up with paragon classes for each of the classes that do exist.
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06-22-2008, 01:21 AM #30
At 11:45 AM 6/21/2008, Wilenburg wrote:
>I agree with the noble class should be begoned, but the druid
>magician and bard should still continue even if we create our own
>versions of the druid and bard then they can be unique to
>BR. Magician are always an intriguing class.
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>With the new classes we need to come up with paragon classes for
>each of the classes that do exist.
It looks like 4e druids and bards are going to appear in "future
Player`s Handbook volumes" so it might be prudent to wait until those
come out before writing up a BR version....
Gary
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