Updates! [4E]

[SporkMaster5000]

I know some of you like to keep up to date on what's changing in your books. And I also know wizards has a terrible habit of hiding this information for some reason. FYI, there's an update this month.

they've apparently done away with the PDF compilation of just this month's updates, giving a brief list of the changes for us to go ferret out the detailed versions in the pdfs for each individual book. Thanks WotC... stare  

[Keith Valken Lionheart]

WHYYY did they nerf Pelor's Radiance?!  

[SporkMaster5000]

Keith Valken Lionheart

WHYYY did they nerf Pelor's Radiance?!

Pelor had it coming! scream  

[Arc Vembris]

I'm just waiting to make Pelor's clergy the villains of a campaign.  

[Mackie the Knife]

Arc Vembris

I'm just waiting to make Pelor's clergy the villains of a campaign.

Plotting to do any with the night and bring about an era of endless sunlight, no doubt.  

[Lord of the Vine]

To shift gears slightly, has anyone experimented with the new fortune cards? I bought two booster packs today to see what they were about, and it seems like an interesting element to the game.

To clarify, the fortune cards act similar to, say, a potion, only instead of chuggin' something and losing a healing surge to get a benefit, you expend this card to get a nice little bonus.  

[Cunning Witch Angus]

The cards seem silly to me.

On the Subject of Updates: Do you HAVE to use them? or can I use my un-errated PHB? I don't feel like getting a bunch of sticky notes and posting them in there.  

[Arc Vembris]

Mackie the Knife

Arc Vembris

I'm just waiting to make Pelor's clergy the villains of a campaign.

Plotting to do any with the night and bring about an era of endless sunlight, no doubt.

Illuminati anyone?  

[SporkMaster5000]

Arc Vembris

Mackie the Knife

Arc Vembris

I'm just waiting to make Pelor's clergy the villains of a campaign.

Plotting to do any with the night and bring about an era of endless sunlight, no doubt.

Illuminati anyone?

I see what you did there.  

[Arc Vembris]

SporkMaster5000

Arc Vembris

Mackie the Knife

Arc Vembris

I'm just waiting to make Pelor's clergy the villains of a campaign.

Plotting to do any with the night and bring about an era of endless sunlight, no doubt.

Illuminati anyone?

I see what you did there.

Pelor's clergy would be a good pairing for Star Pact warlocks. Radiant damage is radiant damage, right? The sun is just another big star, right? Pelor was one of the three deities to open/shatter the Living Gate, right? What if he had an eldritch abomination as an exarch? That might splinter the faithful a bit.

Dude, what if Pelor was just an ascended Far Realm Starspawn? The light! The horrible horrible light! It's all a cover-up, man! They can't let anybody knZALGO!!!! HE COMES.  

[Rain Yupa]

Arcanist Angus

The cards seem silly to me.

On the Subject of Updates: Do you HAVE to use them? or can I use my un-errated PHB? I don't feel like getting a bunch of sticky notes and posting them in there.

I think that's up to the DM of the game you're playing.

If a power was fixed because it was wrong or broken, I would say no. If a power was given as an alternative (like magic missile), I couldn't care less which one you used.

For example: the PHB Cleric Paragon Path, Radiant Servant, has an encounter power called Solar Wrath. Before, it was close burst 8 with 3d8 + wis damage, now it's close burst 3 with 2d6 + wis damage. I would not let anyone use the former.
On the other hand, Tiefling's racial power used to grant them a +1 power bonus to their next attack roll vs an enemy that hit them, and now it's a close burst 10, single-target damage attack if hit. I'd let players use either one (and the feat versions that support either).  

[Cunning Witch Angus]

Rain Yupa

Arcanist Angus

The cards seem silly to me.

On the Subject of Updates: Do you HAVE to use them? or can I use my un-errated PHB? I don't feel like getting a bunch of sticky notes and posting them in there.

I think that's up to the DM of the game you're playing.

If a power was fixed because it was wrong or broken, I would say no. If a power was given as an alternative (like magic missile), I couldn't care less which one you used.

For example: the PHB Cleric Paragon Path, Radiant Servant, has an encounter power called Solar Wrath. Before, it was close burst 8 with 3d8 + wis damage, now it's close burst 3 with 2d6 + wis damage. I would not let anyone use the former.
On the other hand, Tiefling's racial power used to grant them a +1 power bonus to their next attack roll vs an enemy that hit them, and now it's a close burst 10, single-target damage attack if hit. I'd let players use either one (and the feat versions that support either).

Oh, okay, awesome! Thanks for the clarification.