The Playtest Medium: Playability


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So, the playtest version of the Medium, I believe its called the Harrowed Medium, is my preferred version of the class.

The question is, for those of you who tested it, how playable is it right now?

Could I stick with it and the last corrections and have it be viable?

Designer

Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.


Mark Seifter wrote:
Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.

Good to know. Than you. Also, I just PMed you.


Mark Seifter wrote:
Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.

Making any headway on getting the harrowed medium published? I know you had talked about it around the time that OA released and I would love to pay for that, especially if it ends up being PFS legal.

Designer

Serisan wrote:
Mark Seifter wrote:
Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.
Making any headway on getting the harrowed medium published? I know you had talked about it around the time that OA released and I would love to pay for that, especially if it ends up being PFS legal.

I would be equally thrilled to get it out there some day! No progress so far on the getting-it-onto-the-schedule front.


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Mark Seifter wrote:
Serisan wrote:
Mark Seifter wrote:
Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.
Making any headway on getting the harrowed medium published? I know you had talked about it around the time that OA released and I would love to pay for that, especially if it ends up being PFS legal.
I would be equally thrilled to get it out there some day! No progress so far on the getting-it-onto-the-schedule front.

I know I'm a small market, but I've kind of got an open-wallet policy for that version of the class. The "just dip Relic Channeler" version that was published has been somewhat heartbreaking to consider playing compared to my playtest experience. I've got a regular Medium statted up to try out in PFS, but that's more of a test to see how much the location bit affects actual play and not near as exciting/interesting as what we could do with the playtest.

Designer

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Serisan wrote:
Mark Seifter wrote:
Serisan wrote:
Mark Seifter wrote:
Linda is still playing one in Skull and Shackles to great effect. Granted, she has all 54 spirits available, and the updated spirits, but I think she has mostly ones from the playtest anyway, except the Peacock, which I think was not.
Making any headway on getting the harrowed medium published? I know you had talked about it around the time that OA released and I would love to pay for that, especially if it ends up being PFS legal.
I would be equally thrilled to get it out there some day! No progress so far on the getting-it-onto-the-schedule front.
I know I'm a small market, but I've kind of got an open-wallet policy for that version of the class. The "just dip Relic Channeler" version that was published has been somewhat heartbreaking to consider playing compared to my playtest experience. I've got a regular Medium statted up to try out in PFS, but that's more of a test to see how much the location bit affects actual play and not near as exciting/interesting as what we could do with the playtest.

I do like the final medium too and have done some pretty cool things with some builds. That said, I've temporarily retired my PFS playtest medium, Medea Black, until such time as she can still be a harrowed medium. This might be never, but I have plenty of other choices. As to whether harrowed medium would be PFS legal per your other post, given that John and Linda both built a playtest medium for PFS to help with the playtest (John, Linda, and I all played together for one PFS game during the playtest with our three mediums), John worked on the archetypes that would have gone with the harrowed medium, and Linda is still playing a harrowed medium, I'm guessing the chances are pretty high.

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Make this happen Paizo ! If you can´t, let him publish it elsewhere, we need it !


If they publish it elsewhere, it won't be PFS legal. :-(

I get that there's a lot to the publishing process (art assets, formatting, distribution, etc.) that make this potentially unrealistic, but the playtest version was definitely more compelling to me. I kind of wish there was an option to just publish it as a blog, but again, dat PFS legality.

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