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PHB2 Roundtable: Classes | Critical Hits — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:59:08 +0000

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By: lookintomyeyes

lookintomyeyes — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:00:30 +0000

I’ll have to say I’m excited to try my new druid out this weekend.

My fave part of character creation was realizing that some of wizard powers I renamed/reflavored were nearly identical to some of the ones in the actual PHB2! The effects were different of course, so learning a new repertoire of spells to use should be interesting, but I think it will turn out well. I should note that I have a habit of wanting ot be a jack of all trades character, so we will see how that impacts my ability to be useful in combat and such, but as a “flavortext” and “fluff-loving” player I think it should be interesting. And finally I wont have to keep buying potions of tree shape to enjoy my duidness! ;P

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Player’s Handbook 2: Bring on the Bards | UncleBear — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:27:24 +0000

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By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:08:00 +0000

We’ll see for sure on Sunday, though Roberta picked primarily non-beast-form powers.

As a whole, I don’t think it will be a problem with intelligent power selection. Like I said, focus on one side and you will have absolutely no problem. Mix it up… well, we’d need to test that, I suppose.

Thought the problem (if there indeed is one) should be mitigated at Paragon, anyways, when the “free action wild shape” feat comes around.

By: Wimwick

Wimwick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:44:52 +0000

I’ve enjoyed reading your write-up on the Druid. I’m not sure about them for 4e, this splitting of roles makes me think they may be a little too weak or potentially not have a defined role within the party. I’d be interested to hear how further testing of the class works out.

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Player’s Handbook 2 | Game Cryer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:26:29 +0000

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By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:17:01 +0000

All good points, man. I think the druid’s potential to split himself between two roles (and be mediocre at either) is more of a worry, but mine is not the only viewpoint.

We’ll be using our new druid in our game this sunday. I’ll let everyone know how it plays then.

By: felonius

felonius — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:59:43 +0000

“But I think you can also screw yourself with power choices (the first 4e class I believe you can do that with). As such, I think it will be more difficult for a beginner to play a Druid.”

I think with retraining, the dangers of this can be lessened… And a fair DM may allow retraining of more than one power to help a bit. I’d also say that it’s less dangerous than a Wizard making a bad power choice, with the Druid being able to balance out bad choices a little more by almost have a sort of “back-up role”.

I haven’t had a chance to play the Druid, so there may be pitfalls that I haven’t noticed yet… My Druid build (at 1st level):
Pounce
Savage Rend
Flame Seed
Darting Bite
Faerie Fire

I haven’t seen the feats for PHB2 yet, so I went with Alertness…

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