Oh my god. I love Viridium.
Basically, its a special weapon property that is akin to obsidian (aka green volcanic glass). Except the glass is highly toxic and when you strike someone with a viridum weapon, its a DC 12 Fortitude save or they contract leprosy.
I love it so much.
I truly mean no offense but usually a fight against a "opponent" in Pathfinder is quite often to the death (except in terms of outsiders who can make use of teleporting powers). My question for you is how does inflicting a "disease" upon an opponent help kill a foe? One would think that more than 84% of the time it would be utterly useless!
And donning/doffing time for Core Book armours only :(
They include more armors and don't even bother to include the donning/doffing times for them? That's not good. Also, no "fast-donning straps" for armor? That's also bit of a let down.
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I truly mean no offense but usually a fight against a "opponent" in Pathfinder is quite often to the death (except in terms of outsiders who can make use of teleporting powers). My question for you is how does inflicting a "disease" upon an opponent help kill a foe? One would think that more than 84% of the time it would be utterly useless!Oh my god. I love Viridium.
Basically, its a special weapon property that is akin to obsidian (aka green volcanic glass). Except the glass is highly toxic and when you strike someone with a viridum weapon, its a DC 12 Fortitude save or they contract leprosy.
I love it so much.
When used by players yes.
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Yeah, viridium blades sound like the sort of thing certain cults, drow houses, and all-around jerks would just love to use.
Your usual heroic characters wouldn't want to use them for that property, but those that enjoy inflicting suffering or appreciate the psychological effect of knowing that even just getting scraped can doom a person will be all over this.
Viridium sounds like a very nasty and demoralizing material to equip an army with. The opposing side would panic every time they see a rain of Viridium tipped arrows flying towards them.
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Geez, and then consider its use in siege warfare.
Freakin' yikes. An army could just catapult scatterbomb loads of viridium caltrops into cities. Many would land in the streets. Plenty will be stuck on walls and rooftops. Those things could claim victims long after a war even if the city holds, like unexploded shells.
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DAMMIT. No, no it's not. I'm looking for a whip made of metal links with a miniature spiked ball at the end. Like Castlevania's "Vampire Killer" whip.There is an exotic nine-section whip.
I don't know if that will be what you are looking for though.
What you're looking for isn't actually classified as a whip by anyone except the people who make Castlevania games. Look for a flail or a meteor hammer.
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I just want a whip that doesn't need a feat to do lethal damage that still has reach. But it looks like we are keeping the UC version of the Scorpion whip for now so no luck there.
My new favourite weapon: Warhammer Musket! Imagine trying to aim that sucker with one hand ahahahahaaaaaa. A pistol with a weight on the end? GENIUS!
My new favourite weapon: Warhammer Musket! Imagine trying to aim that sucker with one hand ahahahahaaaaaa. A pistol with a weight on the end? GENIUS!
Ah, a gun after my own heart.
D'oh good point the image makes it look like a pistol! Still couldn't shoot for crap with a lump of metal on the end, one handed or two handed.
I entirely agree with that, even the crappy plastic space age ARs I have used would still hurt whacked around someone's noggin! It is mainly that illustration of the Warhammer Musket, just hilarious :D
I've had a musket in my hands and believe me the butt end can do 1d6 bludgeoning even without any double weapon silliness.
Actually, you may have to take care to not take that 1d6 of bludgeoning damage yourself when firing such a beast...
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You know weird pistol/musket/hand-weapon hybrids are actually period weapons. Might I recommend taking a quick look here or here. You can actually see a polish warhammer pistol here.
I haven't actually had time to look at Ultimate Equipment yet, so I can't critique the art. But the warhammer/wheellock while a historical oddity is a real weapon.
I also think the punch dagger/double pistol shown above is a particularly sweet weapon that would make a great item for a PC gunslinger.
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games
I just want a whip that doesn't need a feat to do lethal damage that still has reach. But it looks like we are keeping the UC version of the Scorpion whip for now so no luck there.
What's wrong with the Scropion whip? It has reach, and doesn't need a feat (beyond proficiency (whip)) to do lethal damage.
Plus, if you're a serious whip user, you're probably getting that feat anyway.
Actually, muskets had very heavy butts
Ah hah! I knew keeping that list of similarities between the talky-bag's mum and a musket wouldn't be useless!
Oh my god this looks great! Only just started looking at it content-wise, but design-wise...
-- THANK YOU FOR FIXING THE INCONSISTENT COMMA ISSUE ("sword, short" vs "longsword" -- now it's shortsword and longsword and this grammatical consistency thing that probably only bothered me is gone and YAY.)
-- I LOVE THE LAYOUT! Very clean, very easy to read, I like that the little pretty watermarky stuff on the side is lightened and less complex looking--it still adds style to the document without making things overwhelming (and competing with all the art on the page) and I reckon will also make things way, way, way printer friendlier. The use of color in the headings is helpful for a book which is basically one big long book of lists, as are the small all-cap gothic headers in certain areas. I don't know if I'd want to see all of the same tricks used in other kinds of books but it works really well here.
-- Thanks for the quicklinks on the side on the .pdf--that makes it much more usable as a .pdf. Generally speaking I think this is one of the most screen-readable documents you've put out.
I've also noticed that while it's not entirely avoided (as it would likely be impossible to be) there are fewer paragraphs/item entries that are broken across a page which also makes it easier to look at on the .pdf. I did notice one page where there was nothing but an item header at the bottom of the page and its description at the top of the next column which is a little wonky but that's not common, so far as I can see.
-- The art is great--helps illustrate but the items are small and simple enough they do not dominate the page. I appreciate each item is matched to its entry so you know exactly what you are looking at, as opposed to seeing a picture of sword and realizing what's depicted is 3 pages ago.
As I said I'm still just starting to absorb content. There's some stuff I'm gonna want to houserule or not use (although some of that is stuff from Ultimate Combat so it's not new) but so far so good, and it's so useful to have this in one place. I like the new special materials. And I love the different "kits" for the classes, great way of handling the various "kit" requests a bunch of us threw into the request thread awhile back.
And finally after 12 years, we know what a backpack holds! :D
Thanks for the quicklinks on the side on the .pdf--that makes it much more usable as a .pdf. Generally speaking I think this is one of the most screen-readable documents you've put out.
This is a new thing we're trying to implement on new PDFs with a hardcover counterpart. While hyperlinking the whole document isn't possible within our time constraints, I'm glad what we can do is useful to some! :)
You know weird pistol/musket/hand-weapon hybrids are actually period weapons. Might I recommend taking a quick look here or here. You can actually see a polish warhammer pistol here.
I haven't actually had time to look at Ultimate Equipment yet, so I can't critique the art. But the warhammer/wheellock while a historical oddity is a real weapon.
I also think the punch dagger/double pistol shown above is a particularly sweet weapon that would make a great item for a PC gunslinger.
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games
Wow you learn something everyday! The lump on the end of the pistol is just a wee bit smaller than the illustration, but fantasy games can't seem to get past anime looking weps now-a-days anyway.
***grognard sniff***Great link thanks Gary, and tell the printers to hurry up with WotW 3 and 4 for me!
I am liking the book overall so far, I especially like the extensive mundane items available, and crazy weps! Warhammer Pistol is missing tho ;)
Migrus Locker and Last Leaves of the Autumn Dryad. Humn. Wish some version of the Hurricane Gloves had made the cut.
There's the Shadow Falconer's Glove\m/ to tide you over...
Oh, it's out? Can't wait until the PDF becomes available to us regular shlubs. :)
Nah, I am not an RPG line suscriber at the moment, I meant the regular PDF release on the 16th. :)
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I'd like it to be known that I found my personal favorite line from Ultimate Equipment:
"As with other mithral cookware, food rarely sticks to a mithral waffle iron."
Hm, reading the other thread, my enthusiasm for getting the hardcover later on has considerably cooled. The "Bodywrap of giving the Ultimate Middle Finger to Monks" really is getting my dander up.
Hm, reading the other thread, my enthusiasm for getting the hardcover later on has considerably cooled. The "Bodywrap of giving the Ultimate Middle Finger to Monks" really is getting my dander up.
While that particular item is underwhelming (but certainly not the end of the world, nor is it even the f-you to monks its naysayers are saying it is, and I'm usually in the mob clamoring for good stuff for monks), and there's a few other bits of content I'm not thrilled with, the book is also chock full of good stuff as well. It is wall to wall with content including a lot of content at least I as a collector of the RPG books have never seen before. I think there are a lot of people who are focusing on what it doesn't have ("they don't contain that one item I liked from that one book that they never said they would include the content from it! Ergo, the whole book is ruined!") instead of all the stuff it DOES have... which is lots of gear, useful descriptions, new item materials, new item properties... and of course the utterly awesome random gen treasure tables. Plus of course the whole point of the book is to be a compilation of stuff from the RPG books and Adventurer's Armory, so the value of having one place to look up gear is awesome to me.
Does the book have its flaws? Sure. I can't think of any RPG book that didn't. Are there bits I don't like? Yup. But the nerdrage on this one honestly baffles me.
(And again, I'm in the "need moar for monks" crowd--but they also made very clear what this book was and was not going to include as far as monks go, so anyone who is surprised has not been paying attention.)
Oh, I am still getting the PDF, as the random item tables alone will be quite useful. Nonetheless, getting the hardcover has gone way down as a priority.
Oh, I am still getting the PDF, as the random item tables alone will be quite useful. Nonetheless, getting the hardcover has gone way down as a priority.
Because a few outspoken people raised a smurfstorm about one single item? That's...really petty.
