John Harper Sean Nittner I’ve seen you both share pictures of the finished book on Twitter.
John Harper Sean Nittner I’ve seen you both share pictures of the finished book on Twitter. Any chance of you putting some shots of those deep black pages here? 😜
Also, now that the book is printed, what the timeline for shipping and when can we expect the Special Edition?
Is it me but the Slide feels a little mono tone to me?
Is it me but the Slide feels a little mono tone to me? I know that the subtitle is “A Subtle Manipulator and Spy” but I feel that there is space for the con artist, performer, salesman side of the “Rogue” character. There is space in the game for that type of Playbook and “Subtle Manipulator and Spy” has lots of overlap with the Spider. Many of the special abilities don’t grab me and I’ve seen the ones that do like “A little something on the side” and “Like looking into a mirror” taken as veteran abilities by other classes. Beyond the use of disguise I don’t see all that much that plays into the fiction for the Slide.
I’ve had a go at writing a few abilities:
ENTERTAINMENT: You get +1d when performing (oration, acting, story telling, music, romancing)
MERCANTILE: When buying, selling or dealing in commerce you get +1 effect.
examples:
Sway: during barter of financial deals
Consort: with merchants on trade
Study: ledgers and manifests
Survey: the movement of good on the docks
I was also thinking about a “Gift of the gab” type abilities but couldn’t find a way to convincingly limit it to stop it from being too powerful (Entertainment covers much of it). And then there was an “I belong here” type ability i.e. acting as if you belong in a place you shouldn’t be with confidence so that your presence isn’t questioned.
I’ve not had anyone in the games that I have run play a Slide nor is it the type of character that I tend to play and so I may be off track here. I would be interested to hear how people have found the Slide in actual play and any thoughts on the Playbook.
So I’m trying to wrap my head around how Arcane Magnitude interacts with Effect.
So I’m trying to wrap my head around how Arcane Magnitude interacts with Effect.
Say a Whisper wants to use Tempest to take out an opponent: The Position is decided as normal. She chooses the magnitude of the magic and takes the stress for that, rolls Attune and succeeds. How is the Effect decided? I’m guessing that the magnitude effects Potency but I’m unsure quite how. Is this one of the gut feeling judgements? For me that feels like Moderate magnitude is standard Potency with Minor and Weak being -1 and -2 respectively and Serious +1 etc but it might not be as hard and fast that that.
And how does Tier factor into this? It seems to me that an unarmoured Tier 2 Red Sash with his fancy blade is just as vulnerable to be pummelled by marble sized hailstones as his Tier 0 apprentice. Or is it better to think of Tier as a wider abstraction just as hit points are in D20 style games? A Tier 2 swordsman is better prepared to deal with giant hail than a Tier 0 fighter even though it’s not so obvious from the fiction, just as a Tier 2 Whisper is better able to direct the same hail to greater effect than a Tier 0 apprentice would find possible.
I’ve not really seen play examples of how a Whisper goes head to head with a non magical opponent and the rules don’t make it completely clear.
There’s a new Kickstarter that might be of interest to those running BitD called – Ultimate NPCs: Skulduggery for…
There’s a new Kickstarter that might be of interest to those running BitD called – Ultimate NPCs: Skulduggery for 5e, Pathfinder and S&W!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nordgames/ultimate-npcs-skulduggery-for-5e-pathfinder-and-sa
It’s “30 uniquely designed characters” of a roguish nature and while the book is going to be published for each of the 3 systems above, it looks like there is going to a lot background and flavour for each of the NPCs. The first stretch goal has just been passed and that adds information on 12 guilds and future stretch goals include “Narrative Developments” and “new items”. They are also printing card packs with stats and images of the NPCs. It looks like a project that could be mined for ideas.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nordgames/ultimate-npcs-skulduggery-for-5e-pathfinder-and-sa