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IMO, it happens every round.
Keep in mind, you can't use Banner tag abilities with your banner planted. It can also be easily removed by enemies, or destroyed.
It's a risky thing to do, so it should give a good reward.
I do agree the wording could be cleaner.
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It is temp HP equal to half of your INT modifier.
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We are talking about 2 to 3 temp HP.
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For the entire level 1 - 20 campaign.
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And as far as I can tell, that is the only benefit that Plant Banner gives.
Everything else in that rather large block of rules text is restrictions and detriments and risks.
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Yes. It is ambiguous.
But one interpretation clearly does not pass the Ambiguous Rules rule.
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It could use a middle step between 5 and 20 THP.
Int + half level at level at level 10.
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Ran a table tonight with a Commander 1 (party was mixed lvl 1 and 2).
The temp hps from Plant Banner easily soaked up about half the damage dealt through 3 fights -- it basically wiped out one enemy group's 1d4 AoE attack (which went off multiple times, but to no practical effect due to the banner).
Yeah, the scalability is suspect, but I came away really impressed with it.
Noted on the scaling. That at least makes it not worthless at higher levels. I still don't think that it is going to absorb more than one hit worth of damage per round though.
4 THP/round at will for your entire party is just massive imo, and is at level 5 almost 2x better than a Kineticist aura junction (which is a huge investment in comparison).
The Wood Kineticist also isn't risking anything by using it. They aren't putting the entire party at risk of becoming frightened, or risking being unable to use the majority of their class abilities for some unspecified amount of time.
For analysis of how well Plant Banner feels to play for playtest feedback, comparing to the Kineticist aura makes sense.
For interpreting the rules of Plant Banner, comparing to Kineticist Aura is a bit of a red herring. The amount and scaling aren't ambiguous. The only question is between getting the meager amount of temp HP once, or once per round.
Do you guys think the Int modifier is going to survive in the final release? I feel there isn't a ton of feats that use ability modifiers and rather have set numbers which you add or substract to something. Probably I'm missing some feats and abilities but I feel its certainly uncommon.
I also feel the scaling from this feat is a little off. It goes from inconsequential, to something okay-ish?, to fantastic. I think the curve could be smoothed a little to be decent at all levels.
Almost sure. As I said before we never saw a playtest class changing its main attribute. Usually the designers themselves created the class concept around that attribute (or multiple attributes) and don't like the idea of its being changed.
Is way more probably that they give more utility to Int than change the attribute.
I didn't meant Int as KAS, I meant Int in the Plant Banner feat.
I didn't meant Int as KAS, I meant Int in the Plant Banner feat.
I don't see why not.
It's not like Plant Banner is a core feature, and there aren't overly many things requiring Int.
So you can still play Str/Con command.