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Thanks liz
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Woo hoo! Thanks, Liz!
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Look forward to reading this, Mike.
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Cool!
This book is exactly what I was looking for. Fistful of Power and Running for Health and Survival will be making an appearance in my home campaign, hell I'll be putting most of these into my game. I've been tinkering with the idea of books that bestow feats and skill bonuses for a while and this fills that void. I tried my hand at it a while back, it was called the Grapplers Manual, works the same as your ideas just not as sexy. I'm going to redo it to conform to the standards you set with this book. Can't wait for part 2. Good work on this one.
Wow! Thank you so much for the kind words, Arkady! Steve Russell does a great job at motivating his freelancers to explore untouched design space, and I always thought there should be more beneficial manuals and tomes beyond the stat-enhancers. I'm glad I found something you were also interested in doing, and, more than that, I did it in a way that turned out to be extremely useful to you.
I'd be interested to see your revised manual, and I'll talk to Steve about a sequel. :)
Reviewed first on endzeitgeist.com, sent to GMS magazine, Nerdtrek and posted it on dtrpg. Cheers!
Thank you very much for the review, End!
I will talk to Steve about a sequel. :)
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Good job on this. I hope you make more in the future.
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Would it be too much if there was a set of manuals that taught you a martial atrs style feat chain? I'm thinking about introducing a manual that teaches snapping turtle style for one of my players.
I just want to see what the consensus is on this subject.
That's a very cool idea, and the three-feat chain for styles is an appropriate match for the three-tier manual setup.
I've been thinking of this idea for a while now and this book gave me the blueprint. If anyone else has ideas for manuals I'd like to hear about them.
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Just bought this pdf. Looking forward to diving into it! :)
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It's worth it. I'm going to recommend this book to everybody.
I have a question: if a monk reads Fistful of Power, at 20th level how mush is his unarmed damage?
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Great question!
It would follow a similar progression to a monk who improved from 1d10 to 2d6, so the 20th-level monk would improve to 4d6 (and then 4d8, if the monk read both the advanced and expert books).
Excellent, thanks for the prompt answer. That's exactly what I was hoping for.
Is there a sequel in the works for this yet? Because if there is I'm buying it.
I'm in, just tell me when and I'm buying it.
Just out of curiousity, do guys ever use fan ideas in your products?
Yay! One guaranteed sale! :)
Steve Russell will have to answer your other question. I think submitting material to Pathways is one way to get fan material out there.
As a policy I don't comment on projects until I have a finished manuscript in hand as it avoids the problem of vaporware.
The #30 series is avilable for open submission pitches, as is Adventure Quarterly (paid) and Pathways ezine is available for open submissions (unpaid).
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Got a question about the "Being Comfortable in Your Armor" manual. Do they all stack with each other? Like, if you read the elementary, advanced, and expert, and already have the proficiencies, would you have +3 to your Dex max bonus, -6 to armor check penalties, and -30% to spell failure?
Edit: Same question, but with regards to "Drawing From the Divine" and the 'treated as having a Charisma 2 points higher' for the elementary and expert manuals.
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Got a question about the "Being Comfortable in Your Armor" manual. Do they all stack with each other? Like, if you read the elementary, advanced, and expert, and already have the proficiencies, would you have +3 to your Dex max bonus, -6 to armor check penalties, and -30% to spell failure?
Edit: Same question, but with regards to "Drawing From the Divine" and the 'treated as having a Charisma 2 points higher' for the elementary and expert manuals.
The books do stack with each other. However, in the first example, if someone were to read all three books, then the +3 increase to max Dex bonus would apply to light armor only (+2 for medium, and +1 for heavy), and likewise for the other benefits, since the elementary book only provides its bonuses for light armors, the advanced book provides its bonuses for light and medium armors, and the expert book works for all armors.
For "Drawing from the Divine," a reader of both manuals would have a Charimsa score 4 points higher for purposes of channelling energy.
I hope that helps!
What kind of flavoring do the manuals get? Who are the purported authors, in-universe?
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Got a question about the "Being Comfortable in Your Armor" manual. Do they all stack with each other? Like, if you read the elementary, advanced, and expert, and already have the proficiencies, would you have +3 to your Dex max bonus, -6 to armor check penalties, and -30% to spell failure?
Edit: Same question, but with regards to "Drawing From the Divine" and the 'treated as having a Charisma 2 points higher' for the elementary and expert manuals.
The books do stack with each other. However, in the first example, if someone were to read all three books, then the +3 increase to max Dex bonus would apply to light armor only (+2 for medium, and +1 for heavy), and likewise for the other benefits, since the elementary book only provides its bonuses for light armors, the advanced book provides its bonuses for light and medium armors, and the expert book works for all armors.
For "Drawing from the Divine," a reader of both manuals would have a Charimsa score 4 points higher for purposes of channelling energy.
I hope that helps!
It does, but that's unfortunate about the heavy armor not having more of a bonus for Dex. For 12k gold, you're better off paying 9k for mithral for +2 Dex and negating 3 ACP.
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It does, but that's unfortunate about the heavy armor not having more of a bonus for Dex. For 12k gold, you're better off paying 9k for mithral for +2 Dex and negating 3 ACP.Got a question about the "Being Comfortable in Your Armor" manual. Do they all stack with each other? Like, if you read the elementary, advanced, and expert, and already have the proficiencies, would you have +3 to your Dex max bonus, -6 to armor check penalties, and -30% to spell failure?
Edit: Same question, but with regards to "Drawing From the Divine" and the 'treated as having a Charisma 2 points higher' for the elementary and expert manuals.
The books do stack with each other. However, in the first example, if someone were to read all three books, then the +3 increase to max Dex bonus would apply to light armor only (+2 for medium, and +1 for heavy), and likewise for the other benefits, since the elementary book only provides its bonuses for light armors, the advanced book provides its bonuses for light and medium armors, and the expert book works for all armors.
For "Drawing from the Divine," a reader of both manuals would have a Charimsa score 4 points higher for purposes of channelling energy.
I hope that helps!
Yeah, sometimes it's really hard to balance the costs of these. If you're going to keep the mithral armor for the life of your character, then it would be much more cost effective to do that. If you lose that armor for some reason (and, no, I'm not threatening you ;) ), then it would be more cost effective to use the book. Also, keep in mind that the benefits from the book and the mithral armor work together, which would reduce the ACP and increase the maximum Dex allowed even more.
If your campaign's expectations allow for your character to retain his or her armor throughout his or her career, then I see no problem with house-ruling the bonuses to stack from the previous books for the heavier armors.
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What kind of flavoring do the manuals get? Who are the purported authors, in-universe?
The manuals have a brief description of the book's cover and contents (usually two-three sentences).
The authors were left vague in the supplement (and, since each book has a construction section, it could be your character). Personally, I see the original authors as a race of powerful, but non-interfering, elders (who use their version of the Prime Directive) who want to encourage humanoid-kind to develop and grow into powerful beings themselves. Of course, a schism had developed among the elder race, so peaceful as well as martial books have made it out into the world, despite the initial goal of peaceful growth.
I was curious because items sometimes have descriptions that don't fit their costs, like a 12k gp staff that is described as often being given to apprentices.
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I was curious because items sometimes have descriptions that don't fit their costs, like a 12k gp staff that is described as often being given to apprentices.
I tried to avoid that, since the books are all uniformly expensive magic items (even the "elementary" books are fairly pricey for low-level characters).
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A little bit of curiosity, but regarding the "Teamwork!" manual, how would one increase the maximum from 6 people to 7 or higher? How much more gold? I guess you could spend double the cost for two teams, but they technically weren't working together during that time, but in separate teams.
I recommend a 20% increase over the base cost for each person over 6 (up to a maximum of 5 extra people at 100%). This would make two books more cost-effective for two 6-person teams (or even a 6-person and 5-person team), but it would be less expensive for just-larger-than-6-person teams.