Regional Venture-Coordinator, Great Plains
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So I just received Oread's Favor which states "You have earned the recognition of a large group of oread geniekin. This boon may be used in conjunction with other boons to grant one or more of your characters access to oread-related options."
My question is, will this boon help me to meet the requirements of the Elemental Dilettante boon which states "Somewhere in your family tree, your ancestor's human blood intermingled with that of a janni. By combining this boon with three other boons that enable you to play an ifrit, oread, and undine respectively, you may play a suli character, begininning at level 1 as normal."?
Any thoughts would be helpful...
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Does Oread's Favor allow you to play an oread? If not, then no.
By combining this boon with three other boons that enable you to play an ifrit, oread, and undine respectively, you may play a suli character,...
I don't know the full text of the favor boon, so can't say one way or the other outside of that bit.
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First off, um, wow—that was a fast turn-around from the scenario being released to actually running it! I hope the adventure went well.
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Regional Venture-Coordinator, Great Plains
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First off, um, wow—that was a fast turn-around from the scenario being released to actually running it! I hope the adventure went well.
** spoiler omitted **
Actually, I haven't received it for use on my character yet... I received the adventure (by purchasing it) and have been reading through it. I came to that portion and was wondering how the boon worked...
I will be running it in a couple of days, but so far it looks interesting!
Thanks for clarifying!
Does this boon give a level 1 character access to the Oread race then?
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No, a couple posts up you can see John Compton's response that it gives "no mechanical benefit - yet." There are a number off boons like this over the course of play, most then link up in some way to a scenario either later in the season or in a later season. A third season scenario has a link through familial ties to a fourth season scenario with a similar boon, for example.
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From my experience with other organized play campaigns, I never liked these type of boons where you have to collect several to get a mechanical benefit.
1. Without replay it encourages chronicle shopping. "Does this adventure have another Oread boon? If that's the case I'll have to play a pregen so that I can apply it to my PC with the other boons when he gets to the required level for this adventure."
2. I've seen many of these types of boon never go fulfilled. "NPC x may give you something the next time you help him;" then NPC x is never seen again.
3. Since they are unremarkable on their own, trying to use them as devices during a game only slows it down as people have to search their chronicles because they can't remember if a particular PC has it or not.
No, a couple posts up you can see John Compton's response that it gives "no mechanical benefit - yet." There are a number off boons like this over the course of play, most then link up in some way to a scenario either later in the season or in a later season. A third season scenario has a link through familial ties to a fourth season scenario with a similar boon, for example.
Doh! I totally read that but my brain just glossed over that bit in hopes that it wasnt true lol
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From my experience with other organized play campaigns, I never liked these type of boons where you have to collect several to get a mechanical benefit.
1. Without replay it encourages chronicle shopping. "Does this adventure have another Oread boon? If that's the case I'll have to play a pregen so that I can apply it to my PC with the other boons when he gets to the required level for this adventure."
2. I've seen many of these types of boon never go fulfilled. "NPC x may give you something the next time you help him;" then NPC x is never seen again.
3. Since they are unremarkable on their own, trying to use them as devices during a game only slows it down as people have to search their chronicles because they can't remember if a particular PC has it or not.
One thing that the PFS team has been doing in seasons 5 and 6 that I expect we're likely to see more of going forward are scenarios that just care if one of your characters has X boon from Y scenario. I wouldn't be surprised if the Oread's Favor boon and it's ilk follow a similar path, especially since it's a 5-9, that way they don't have to worry about putting something cool on a future chronicle only to not have anyone get it because all the PC's that have it already retired.
Additionally, it doesn't have to have a mechanical benefit to be worthwhile. I enjoy boons on chronicles whose value lies in RP potential.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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So... It's been about a year and a half since this boon came out. Am I correct that there have been no follow-up boons that key off of it?
