tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607464045429311026.post7461242838975063499..comments2024-03-26T00:09:13.941-07:00Comments on Dungeon of Signs: Thieves aboard the AppolyonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607464045429311026.post-43572306423170630872012-09-05T08:52:05.666-07:002012-09-05T08:52:05.666-07:00Eric, Thanks for the in depth look at these.
1. ...Eric, Thanks for the in depth look at these. <br /><br />1. I am pretty happy with Appraisal and Survival - Survival gives most old ranger abilities, while Appraisal ultimately provides: Detect Magic, Identify and forgery at will. Likewise the CHR and reaction bonuses on Con Artist are going to make Charm Person a secondary ability.<br /><br />2. I'm not aiming for balance actually, some skills are clearly better than others. Min Maxing isn't really my concern. <br /><br />3. Swimming has been fixed, thanks for catching that.<br /><br />4. The issue with poison is that Sick Lichen (available for sale) is a ingested poison, while toxicologist's poison can coat weapons.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607464045429311026.post-49127894900682848552012-09-04T22:04:04.506-07:002012-09-04T22:04:04.506-07:00Survival seems a little weak, as does Appraisal. I...Survival seems a little weak, as does Appraisal. I'd add an ability bonus to the Appraisal tree- dunno how to fix Survival off the top of my head. Medicine could use a boost too- maybe swap the critical increase lower and add a Wisdom bonus later. Is Swimming:2 intended to be a straight copy of Agility:2? Con Artist:6 could lose the 1/session limit, but add "anyone seeing the Con Artist use his charm person ability on a third party is uncharmed and gets a +4 stacking save bonus on any further Con Artist attempts?" I do have a personal bias against dissociated mechanics. <br /><br />Toxicology's awfully expensive- I'd never use the level one ability, since I can get four doses of 1d6 poison for just 60 GP in the Rust Gate shops. Assassin:6 still needs to be a sneak attack, right? Unclear from the text provided. <br /><br />Beyond these nitpicks, though, these are really evocative. You've pulled out what's good and character-developing about skills and feats and taken away the minutiae and overplanning. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607464045429311026.post-23748541108772343722012-09-04T08:20:32.795-07:002012-09-04T08:20:32.795-07:00@ Brendan. There is overlap with some classes - we...@ Brendan. There is overlap with some classes - well Fighters. Most are uniquely Specialist skills (though con artist & medicine may get on the Cleric list).<br /><br />I intentionally have skills on go to 5 in 6 and the non - point levels are intentional breaks/barriers. <br /><br />A pdf is on the way but behind some projects finishing frogling & monkey classes and cleric list prior. A page should be up with links to all Apollyon stuff later.<br /><br />Any thought on the skills is much appreciated - I wanted to provide builds beyond lick picking skulker and backstabbing ninja.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607464045429311026.post-67737969553501561692012-09-04T07:00:52.490-07:002012-09-04T07:00:52.490-07:00Holy crap, that's a lot of skills!
Some of th...Holy crap, that's a lot of skills!<br /><br />Some of these are shared with other classes, right? It might be useful to call out the specialist-only skills (if there are any).<br /><br />Another suggestion: for the skills that use specialist-style X in 6 chances, it would probably be least confusing if the X always corresponded to the skill level, with 6 in 6 failure occurring on a double 6 roll (as in LotFP). Example: climbing 4 has a 3 in 6 chance.<br /><br />A big master table that you could roll on would be helpful for people like me with a super short attention span.<br /><br />You should totally collect all of these into a pdf some time. Digest sized, one per page would be perfect.Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.com