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Feats of Abjuration includes nine new feats for practitioners of abjuration magic: Abjurant Flux, Abjurer's Abnegations, Arcane Ward, Circles of Resistance, Guarded Spell, Overwhelming Dispel, Resistant Abjurer, Warding Blast, and Warding Shield.
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Why did I buy this? What did I actually get?
On a whim, to check out the company’s products.
Have I used this, or will I use this?
I don’t know that I will ever implement this. That isn’t a criticism on the PDF directly - I enjoy seeing different kinds of feats, but when it comes to building statblocks or characters, poring through feats becomes a chore for me.
How is the fluff?
None to speak of.
How are the mechanics?
There’s 9 feats in here, most of which are on the conservative side. Guarded Spell, a metamagic feat that lets you take a full-round to cast a spell and use total defense at the same time, is pretty neat - especially considering spontaneous casters, who generally have to use a full-round action for metamagic anyway. The other feats provide various options as well, but a few build a chain I don’t see myself using.
How’s the artwork?
None to speak of.
How’s readability?
Simple layout, but I’m not a big fan of landscape format, which this is in.
Was the price fair?
99 cents works out to 11 cents/feat. Even if you don’t use them, I think that’s pretty fair for discovering if you would want to, especially knowing the supposed focus.
Favorite part?
Overwhelming Dispel, which adds your bonuses from Spell Focus (abjuration) & it’s Greater variant to the dispel check, as well as adding some minor damage on a successful dispel.
Least favorite part?
Arcane Ward, which serves a similar (though not the same) purpose as Arcane Shield, becomes a prereq for a couple other feats herein - the versatility of which seem pretty neat, but I don’t know if I would justify spending three feats to get these rather minor abilities.
All right, you know the drill - 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page content, so let#s take a look!
9 feats for abjuration are provided, so what do they do?
-Abjurant Flux: Prevent the decrease to perceive abjuration spells in close proximity to another, making masking energies easier. Nice, if very specific.
-Abjurer's Abnegation: +2 points of damage for damage-dealing abjurations.
-Arcane Ward: Sacrifice a prepared spell to get the effects of an improved, scaling shield as a supernatural (thus non-dispellable) ability.
-Circles of Resistance: Protection and Magic Circles also grant SR vs alignment-based spells.
-Guarded Spell (Metamagic): +1 spell level allows the spell to cast while taking the total defense option if casting duration is not too long. AWESOME idea.
-Overwhelming Dispel: Add spell focus and its greater cousin to dispel checks; Deal spell-level damage to target if you dispel his spell.
-Resistant Abjurer: Gain resistance 1 to cold, electricity and fire 1 when under the effects of abjurations with save: harmless. Too weak for my tastes.
-Warding Blast: Make arcane blast powered by your ward - expend shield for deadly blast.
-Warding Shield: Make arcane shield powered by your ward - expend the ward shield for better arcane shield.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are very good, I didn't notice any significant glitches. Layout adheres to Abandoned Arts 2-column, landscape style and the pdf has neither bookmarks, nor artwork and needs neither at this length.
Daron Woodson has delivered quite an array of interesting feats here - while not all are eligible, some indeed can be considered awesome and uncommon regarding their mechanics. While not all rock, the vast majority is cool - hence, my final verdict will clock in at 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 for the purpose of this platform.
