Recent content by Reikenbach

If the duration of Bard Song is so long that it only needs to be reapplied once every few RL hours, there's not much point in tying it to the Bard Song resource pool anymore. You may as well just make it a toggled aura if Bards are expected to spend all but one or two of their song charges on...

Honestly, ramping stat growth harder just pushes us towards an arms race style of balance and causes more trouble in the long run. Given the stated desire for a low-magic setting, the upper bound of potential player AC (counting temporary buffs) probably shouldn't exceed 30 without significant...

Bard Song is very potent. At the current level cap of 8, it's a buff that provides as much offensive and defensive utility as Bull's Strength and Shield of Faith combined, while also improving saves and skills - and it affects everybody rather than just one person. Because Deflection AC doesn't...

It's not a 20% reduced chance to be hit. Assuming you have 20 AC (Heavy Armor, 16 STR, 12 DEX) and the enemy has +10 AB, that's a 40% reduced chance to be hit. If they have +15 AB, that would be ~27% reduced chance to be hit. If they have a +20 AB, that would be ~16% reduced chance to be hit...

If it's going to exist at all, I'd argue it should only be given to Fighters.

I think the only meaningful advantage Dual Wielding offers currently over Two-Handing is a bonus of +2 AC from Two-Weapon Defense. As time goes on, though, I think the ability to more rapidly apply bonus damage effects (ie. Flame Weapon) may start to make up for it somewhat.

Fundamentally, I think this all routes back to ongoing problems with the threat/aggro system. The only reason to use a shield is if you're expecting to take aggro. The only reason you can expect to take aggro is if you're doing the most damage.* The only reason you're doing the most damage is...

If Weapon Focus/Specialization feats are consolidated into groups, there will need to be some compensation for classes who are pigeonholed into using specific weapons, like Artificers, Arcane Archers, Warsling Snipers, and Favored Souls. The guarantee of having applicable weapon feats is part of...

At the very least, the strength and/or number of wisps spawned should scale with the level of spell used. A wisp spawned by a cantrip can be killed by a cantrip, but a wisp spawned by a level 3 spell should be worrying.

While I agree that the duration of Bard Song ought to be brought down, I can't disagree further about something like Bull's Strength. Reducing its duration to Minute/CL would mean it wouldn't even last half the time you're in an average-length level-appropriate dungeon at level 8, particularly...

One thing to remember is that the majority of those more impactful Cleric/FS spells have prohibitively long cooldowns, and need proper judgment about when they should be used. Bard Song needs no contemplating at all. As for duration, I think changing Bard Song to something like (10 + CL) or...

Just going to point out that Bards also get what amounts to a permanent Legend Lore effect from Bardic Knowledge as of level 8. Given the ability would otherwise scale to +18 and is only capped at +8 because all skills are capped at +8, it's bonkers to me that this was left untouched when other...

Bonus Feat: Spare Capacitor (New) Concept: The Artificer currently lacks some variety when it comes to their Bonus Feats. For example, Healing Injectors is currently the only support-oriented choice available - and while it's quite good, I believe there should be some additional options. This...

Inventor's Pursuit: Volatile Concoctions Feedback: Inventor's Pursuits seem like they're supposed to define an Artificer's playstyle - Conductive Weapon for melee, Power Shield for tanks. Volatile Concoctions looks like it's meant to be the "caster" option, but it currently falls short in a few...

Perhaps Civilians ought to receive a multiplier on job salaries, to represent their working full-time while adventurers only work part-time.