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Campaign Leadership has stated before that some Faction Journal Cards will increase in desirability, and some will decrease, with each Season.
It's part of a constant balancing act to equalize interest in the different Factions. If the majority of characters created in a given Season were Silver Crusade (for example), and the Faction Journal Card happened to be more useful than any other, then you can probably bet it'll be revised for the next Season.
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They reworded season 8 in season 9 such that the bonus is applied only with regard to your final result instead of the initial roll.
The wording change is a clarification, not a rule change. It was always intended to refer to the end result, not just the dice roll. For reference see campaign leadership's response when this was asked about last season.
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It's a 2+ boon... Have you *seen* the other 2+ boons? "Protecting you from rolling less than a 5" is just about right.
The deal is, the faction caters to people that are skilled in those skills. VERY quickly will your minimum roll be higher than this floor for most of these skills. Personally I think that the 2+ boon should be something that is potentially useful at all levels, even if not big. So that makes this boon incentivise you to not invest ranks into the skill that you choose, which is counter to the theme of the faction.
Like if they made this boon be, when you roll for diplomacy you take the higher of the die roll or (1+half the checkboxes / number of checkboxes) for your roll.
This would be a potentially useful thing. Now maxed out you can roll instead of taking 10 knowing that the lowest you can roll is a 5.
This seems like the correct fit, the usefulness is always there, though rather small and only seldomly applicable, which is what most are. (like getting a + against known slavers or + to remove status spells) So this is on the correct power level for a 2+ boon. And it's using the same thematic as the current boon, that you're so well trained you can save yourself and cause a poor job to not be as bad as it could have been.
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It's a 2+ boon... Have you *seen* the other 2+ boons? "Protecting you from rolling less than a 5" is just about right.The deal is, the faction caters to people that are skilled in those skills. VERY quickly will your minimum roll be higher than this floor for most of these skills. Personally I think that the 2+ boon should be something that is potentially useful at all levels, even if not big. So that makes this boon incentivise you to not invest ranks into the skill that you choose, which is counter to the theme of the faction.
Like if they made this boon be, when you roll for diplomacy you take the higher of the die roll or (1+half the checkboxes / number of checkboxes) for your roll.
This would be a potentially useful thing. Now maxed out you can roll instead of taking 10 knowing that the lowest you can roll is a 5.
This seems like the correct fit, the usefulness is always there, though rather small and only seldomly applicable, which is what most are. (like getting a + against known slavers or + to remove status spells) So this is on the correct power level for a 2+ boon. And it's using the same thematic as the current boon, that you're so well trained you can save yourself and cause a poor job to not be as bad as it could have been.
It also lets low skill classes, like Fighter, be in this faction without having to expend their 1 or 2 skill points per level on non-combat skills and still have a hope of success of at least aid in social situations.
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It also lets low skill classes, like Fighter, be in this faction without having to expend their 1 or 2 skill points per level on non-combat skills and still have a hope of success of at least aid in social situations.
Yes the current boon is helpful for people that don't really fit in the faction (A character with none of the skills and probably a dumped charisma) to auto aid.
