Thoughts on the Urban Druid?

[Deadmanwalking]

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

Deadmanwalking wrote:

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

If you are interested in seeing a bit of how Paizo views the Urban Druid from a roleplaying perspective, I highly recommend Blood of the City.

Yep. With the Knowledge Domain. She's cool, and the book's very good.

Surprisingly dark, though.

As she adventures and gains levels, you can watch the mechanics happening as she gains new level dependant abilities. At times it is as obvious as watching the Wizard suddenly firing three magic missiles vice two.

Indeed. I actually thought how that was handled was pretty cool.

[Ascalaphus]

Does she gain the Thousand Faces ability? That, to me, is the real selling point of the UD.

[Deadmanwalking]

Ascalaphus wrote:

Does she gain the Thousand Faces ability? That, to me, is the real selling point of the UD.

Spoiler:

She does. The one time you see her gain a level is 5th to 6th. She does some cool stuff with it, too.

[Ascalaphus]

Hmm. May have to pick this up. I've read that these novels also give some sort of boon in PFS, but I don't know what kind of boons those might be. Does anyone know?

[Imbicatus]

Ascalaphus wrote:

Hmm. May have to pick this up. I've read that these novels also give some sort of boon in PFS, but I don't know what kind of boons those might be. Does anyone know?

If you click on the link Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan posted, it will take you to the product page for the book. The Chronicle sheet is a free download that is linked on the product page.

Edit: Corrected poster name.

[Deadmanwalking]

Imbicatus wrote:

Ascalaphus wrote:

Hmm. May have to pick this up. I've read that these novels also give some sort of boon in PFS, but I don't know what kind of boons those might be. Does anyone know?

If you click on the link Deadmanwalking posted, it will take you to the product page for the book. The Chronicle sheet is a free download that is linked on the product page.

[pedantic note] I didn't originally post that link, just quoted it.[/pedantic note]

And the Pathfinder Tales fiction is generally quite good, in a mostly low-level gritty sort of way. I recommend pretty much any of them where you think the premise sounds interesting.

To reiterate though, Blood of the City, while excellent, is really dark. Because that bears repeating. I was sorta shocked, actually, not by the content per se...just by the fact that it was not what I was expecting from the book.

[Imbicatus]

Do'h, that's what I get for copy/pasting the name in the wrong tier of a quote pyramid.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

It's not nearly the darkest of the Tales novels, nor the goriest.

[Deadmanwalking]

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

It's not nearly the darkest of the Tales novels, nor the goriest.

It's the second darkest I've read after Nightglass, though in fairness I haven't read all of them as of yet. It isn't especially gory, I agree.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

Indeed, Nightglass is the one I had in mind as being darker.

The most gory is maybe Worldwound Gambit, or Master of Devils.

The most lighthearted and fun, and my favorite is Pirate's Honor.