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Hi,
I've been looking at the Medium and the wording of Astral Beacon puzzles me.
Astral Beacon (Su): At 20th level, a medium is an open connection to the Astral Plane and a shining beacon for spirits. As a free action, he can channel spirits of any of the five legends he did not contact via his seance. This ability lasts for 1 round and grants access to the intermediate, greater, and supreme spirit powers of the chosen spirits.
Unlike trance of three, astral beacon allows spirits of the chosen legends (for instance, archmage) to gain influence over the medium until 24 hours from when the medium contacted his primary spirit. Also unlike trance of three, if the medium would incur influence by using one of the new spirits’ abilities, that influence is added to the medium’s total influence from that spirit rather than from his primary spirit.
Now, from the wording, I get:
1) You can channel any number of spirits. As there is no actual reason not too, you'll probably end up calling all 5 of them every time you use this.2) It works for one round, but since it is a free action with no limitation, you will likely use it every round.
3) You can technically do silly stuff like changing the bonus feat granted by "Legendary Champion" every round to match what you want.
Hence, it seems to me that this is a awkward way of saying that you always have the intermediate, greater and supreme spirit power of all spirits.
Is this really what is intended? This seems very powerful compared to all other capstones that I've seen. Did some intended limitation (usage per day maybe) somehow not made it to print? Or am I misunderstanding something?
The limitation is all the way back in the spirit ability "By channeling a spirit, the medium allows the spirit to gain 1 influence over him." So you can safely do it twice per legend per day with no influence penalties, and theoretically up to 4 times per legend per day without losing control. But yes, you can definitely use it to get different feats each time.
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The limitation is all the way back in the spirit ability "By channeling a spirit, the medium allows the spirit to gain 1 influence over him." So you can safely do it twice per legend per day with no influence penalties, and theoretically up to 4 times per legend per day without losing control. But yes, you can definitely use it to get different feats each time.
This makes a lot of sense. I somehow always thought of it as "You start the day with 1 point of influence", but indeed this applies to.
Seems much more reasonable now :-)
Thanks!
I must admit, that interaction was more salient for the original medium who kept calling in different spirits with trances all the time. It's a bit more hidden of an interaction now than I would have liked, and maybe should have called it out explicitly.