For your combat...
You may additionally recharge a blessing to...
Says the card.
But this doesnt make sense as Sajans basic skill is he may recharge any number of blessings during combat... what is wrong???
Further, how to use iconic hero cards... used first in hands when starting new adv path? Or mixed in card pile?
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Not knowing the full text of the card, I'm guessing it says something to the effect of "You may additionally recharge a blessing to add X dice"?
Sajan gets to PLAY as many blessings as he wants. Recharging a blessing for the Sword's power isn't playing the blessing, and is limited to one.
The Iconic Heroes cards count as if they had the Basic trait, but only for the character listed on the card as the "Owner". So, Sajan treats that sword as if it were basic and could pull it from the box any time he goes to pull a weapon of his choice to rebuild his deck. If they later create a version of Sajan that starts the adventure path with a weapon in his deck, he could even build his starter deck with the sword.
For anyone else, it's just another weapon and gets mixed in as usual. Unfortunately the only current version of Sajan doesn't start with a weapon, and needs a feat to get one, so he can't build his initial deck with it. It makes me sad, I loved playing Sajan in Runelords!
Yes, with the temple sword you add your Dexterity die for a recharged blessing. For Sajan who can play as many blessings as he wants on his combat checks and recharge them instead and would use his Dexterity skill with the temple sword, this isn't much of a boost for his character. There are only a few cases in which this power is helpful for the current version of Sajan and they usually involve when actually playing blessings is bad for you, such as devils that make you banish Divine cards you play. Since you are just recharging the card to activate the sword's power, you are not actually playing the blessing and won't lose it.
Otherwise, in addition to what Andrew said, we should eventually be getting a Monk Class Deck which will have a new version of Sajan and other new monks that may not have the same powers related to blessings (like how none of the class deck sorcerers came with automatic spell recharge right away) so that may make the temple sword's power a little more beneficial for them.
I suspect there's going to be another Sajan in Wrath of the Righteous as well.
The special benefit of this card is that Sajan can use this weapon together with his normal Monk-recharge blessings-ability.
So essentially it gives him a 1W8+1 bonus in combat, which is not too bad. Remember that Sajan normally cannot use weapons when using his special ability.
The special benefit of this card is that Sajan can use this weapon together with his normal Monk-recharge blessings-ability.
So essentially it gives him a 1W8+1 bonus in combat, which is not too bad. Remember that Sajan normally cannot use weapons when using his special ability.
Actually, it's just the Dexterity for combat ability that Sajan can't use with a weapon. There is nothing restricting his use of weapons when using the blessing based power. This weapon is just different in that it's a melee weapon that has Dexterity as one of the options for the skill you use with it.
Except I think it has a penalty for not being a monk.
Oops, I stand corrected. Never played Sajan yet... But I would love to one day. ;-)