| Fallendemon13 |
I'm working on a character for a 20th level one-shot, making an Urban Bloodrager, when I noticed something.
Controlled Bloodrage:
When an urban bloodrager rages, she does not gain the normal benefits. Instead, she can apply a +4 morale bonus to her Constitution, Dexterity, or Strength. This bonus increases to +6 when she gains greater bloodrage and to +8 when she gains mighty bloodrage. She can apply the full bonus to one ability score or split the bonus between several scores in increments of 2. When using a controlled bloodrage, an urban bloodrager gains no bonus on Will saves, takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Charisma-, Dexterity-, and Intelligence-based skills. A controlled bloodrage still counts as a bloodrage for the purposes of any spells, feats, and other effects.
Bolding the part that bothers me, this says nothing for what happens with Greater Bloodrage or Mighty Bloorage, other than the increase in stat bonus. Does this mean that the bonus to Will that Greater and Mighty give is also ignored? It doesn't seem fair if you lose ALL will saves from the ability, when the archetype specifically says it changes Bloodrage, not Greater and Mighty Bloodrage.
| Jakkedin |
Does this mean that the bonus to Will that Greater and Mighty give is also ignored? It doesn't seem fair if you lose ALL will saves from the ability, when the archetype specifically says it changes Bloodrage, not Greater and Mighty Bloodrage.
Yep, you get no morale bonus to Will saves ever as an Urban Bloodrager.
It balances out "takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Charisma-, Dexterity-, and Intelligence-based skills" part of the Controlled Bloodrage.
As to being unfair, the archetype doesn't need to specifically call out that it alters Greater and Mighty Bloodrage because each of those contain "when a bloodrager enters a bloodrage" in its description. Each of them are just extensions of the Bloodrage class ability so they are both affected by any change to Bloodrage.