Phaedre |
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@Phaedre - Is it sitting in Fife, or does it say "Package transferred to dest MI facility" like mine currently does, which means that it has left Fife, but has not been received at the UPS-MI facility near where you live to be injected into the USPS system.
-- david
Yep it's "Package transferred to dest MI facility". My guess is that it'll show up around Tuesday this week and a half dozen tracking updates will all go in at once. That's how it usually happens.
David knott 242 |
When will the character record sheets be available online?
Good question. My best guess would be August 1st. At this point, the site is so buggy that I cannot even find the 1st edition character sheets.
Psiphyre |
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^ I think that the soonest we can expect new classes would be sometime next year (probably in the "big book" release of 2020, so maybe a year from now?).
Also, while I understand the desire to get as many of the classes that were present in P1 as soon as possible, I would prefer that the developers take some time to get them as near-perfect (& fun to play!) as possible rather than just rushing out with lackluster & disappointment.
But we'll see...
Carry on,
--C.
GreenShaDow |
Quen Pah wrote:When will the character record sheets be available online?Good question. My best guess would be August 1st. At this point, the site is so buggy that I cannot even find the 1st edition character sheets.
I've been endlessly searching for pdfs of character sheets. I dont have a good way of scanning the book ones and we have to wait until Aug 1 to get our PDF in our account. I find this odd since I have the physical book so it would be nice to have the pdf as well.....I guess i'll just wait to test character creation until august.
Rysky |
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David knott 242 wrote:I've been endlessly searching for pdfs of character sheets. I dont have a good way of scanning the book ones and we have to wait until Aug 1 to get our PDF in our account. I find this odd since I have the physical book so it would be nice to have the pdf as well.....I guess i'll just wait to test character creation until august.Quen Pah wrote:When will the character record sheets be available online?Good question. My best guess would be August 1st. At this point, the site is so buggy that I cannot even find the 1st edition character sheets.
They said they're trying for next week.
Emphasis on trying.
captain yesterday |
David knott 242 wrote:I've been endlessly searching for pdfs of character sheets. I dont have a good way of scanning the book ones and we have to wait until Aug 1 to get our PDF in our account. I find this odd since I have the physical book so it would be nice to have the pdf as well.....I guess i'll just wait to test character creation until august.Quen Pah wrote:When will the character record sheets be available online?Good question. My best guess would be August 1st. At this point, the site is so buggy that I cannot even find the 1st edition character sheets.
I decided to do it the old fashioned way, with a notebook.
It's not as pretty, but it gets the job done!
shadram |
I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.
Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
ErisAcolyte-Chaos jester |
Will 2nd edition material be able to be converted to first, and vice versa. I know the new edition is coming up in a while, but still want to see if its possible to run through something like age of ashes with some kineticists or shifters. if not, i can understand the reasoning, but if it is possible, i will be quite pleased.
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Quen Pah |
Saint Bernard wrote:I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
Can you post a page #?
Joana |
shadram wrote:Can you post a page #?Saint Bernard wrote:I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
386-407.
shadram |
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Quen Pah wrote:386-407.shadram wrote:Can you post a page #?Saint Bernard wrote:I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
I've also since noticed that some classes (e.g. Bard) give page numbers for their focus spells, but other (like Monk and Druid) do not. I read the Monk class first, but if I'd read in alphabetical order (who does that anyway?) I wouldn't have had that problem. It's also a problem you have exactly once, and then never again, so it's not a major issue.
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KingTreyIII |
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shadram wrote:...if I'd read in alphabetical order (who does that anyway?)Lol.
*raises hand*
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To those of you who have the book- what are your initial impressions/reviews?
Format-wise it’s beautiful. The new art looks wonderful and unique!
Crunch-wise I can see why some would be a bit disappointed (legacy spells like cloudkill got nerfed, and spell durations got an overhaul), but I’ve got a feeling (call it senseless optimism if you wish) that it’ll end up better in practice than on paper. I find focus spells interesting and am curious how that’ll end up in play. As a GM I find the tight math to be better because then CR doesn’t break down horribly at higher levels. Casters have fewer spells per day but the DCs for a 1st level burning hands and a 9th level meteor swarm are the same when cast by the same caster.
I know that a good chunk of this was also in the playtest, but I still think vocalizing said things is good too.
Honestly, with my read thus far (going cover-to-cover and just getting to Ranger; sometimes jumping around occasionally) I only have a few complaints, and they’re nitpicky:
The book is GIGANTIC!
If you’re proficient in Performance then you’re just as good at singing as you are at playing a violin—which is NOT how that works!
(Not Core, but Bestiary) Of all the nine standard outsider species (demons, archons, psychopomps, etc.) literally ONLY agathions (NG species) don’t have any representation in it!
I had/have others, but I’ve forgotten; that’s how nitpicky they are.
TL;DR: It’s definitely different from 1e, but I personally think it’ll be for the better.
Quen Pah |
Quen Pah wrote:386-407.shadram wrote:Can you post a page #?Saint Bernard wrote:I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
Thank you.
Elorebaen |
Joana wrote:I've also since noticed that some classes (e.g. Bard) give page numbers for their focus spells, but other (like Monk and Druid) do not. I read the Monk class first, but if I'd read in alphabetical order (who does that anyway?) I wouldn't have had that problem. It's also a problem you have exactly once, and then never again, so it's not a major issue.Quen Pah wrote:386-407.shadram wrote:Can you post a page #?Saint Bernard wrote:I am slowly coming to grip with the new CRB. The organization is not intuitive for me. The index and TOC are not that helpful. Took me half an hour to find the focus powers. Great material there so it is just a learning process for me.Yeah, I struggled to find the focus spells too, and eventually found them accidentally while randomly flipping through.
For anyone else struggling: Focus Spells are in their own section at the very end of the Spells chapter, grouped by class.
The location of Focus Spells are also mentioned in the "Spell Lists" paragraph on pg 307. But yeah, a bit hidden, but as you say not a major issue.
Amaranthine Witch |
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The book is indeed beautiful, but leafing through it left me with an indistinct "meh" feeling. I'll have to buckle down this weekend and read it in detail from cover to cover to form a solid opinion, but what I've read of ancestries, spells and feats doesn't give me great hopes that it'll wow me.
I can see the appeal for other people though, as it seems like a solid system.
Joana |
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How many page were dedicated to the gods? Did each of them get at least half-a-page?
No, it's pretty bare-bones. They fit about three to a column, or six to a page. It's just the basics you need to make a cleric with; I would expect more detail in the Lost Omens World Guide.
GentleGiant |
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For those asking for a character sheet, they've been released here (in case you didn't read the blog or saw the front page at release).
Also, once you receive your book(s) it might be a good idea to take proper care on how you open it the first time. Here's a video showing and describing how to open such a large book to ensure the spine of the book lasts longer.
Fumarole |
The Gold Sovereign wrote:How many page were dedicated to the gods? Did each of them get at least half-a-page?No, it's pretty bare-bones. They fit about three to a column, or six to a page. It's just the basics you need to make a cleric with; I would expect more detail in the Lost Omens World Guide.
The Gods and Magic book in January is a more likely source for fleshed out details.