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- September 29, 2016 at 1:53 am #273630AnonymousInactive
Many thanks to everyone who caught errors and discrepancies in the primer, you folks are great! Keep the questions and comments coming and we will update the PDF as necessary.
Regarding things like psionics and multiclassing as well as primal magic, I will add my voice to Henry’s. There are some things that are necessary to do in the 5th edition system for balance reasons that weren’t necessary in ARG so the two systems will not match. We will strive to keep the themes and integral concepts of the world of Arcanis consistent across both systems but sometimes there many not be an exact one for one match.
Don’t hesitate to ask about these apparent discrepancies; you might catch something we missed or have a different take on it that we didn’t consider.
September 29, 2016 at 7:43 pm #273637AnonymousInactivePage 21: A word on literacy. It refers to backgrounds on p. 27, but backgrounds is on p. 47.
Speaking of literacy, the primer states that the only way to gain literacy is by either playing a race that starts off literate, taking a background that grants literacy, or giving up one of your character’s total languages known to gain literacy.
What about the Feat Linguist (pg. 167 of the 5e PHB)? It states you ‘studied languages and codes’, granting +1 Int, gaining three languages of one’s choice, and the ability to create written ciphers (wouldn’t this course of studies make one literate?). Was this feat overlooked?
September 29, 2016 at 8:51 pm #273638AnonymousInactiveTwo Points.
First, you do not need to be litterate to create a cypher.
Second I suspect the terms of the OGL prevents paradigm from altering a PHB feat.
September 29, 2016 at 11:20 pm #273640AnonymousInactiveTwo Points.
First, you do not need to be litterate to create a cypher.
True, but I do believe one does have to become literate to learn how to read them (how else is one going to learn, or be taught, them?). Unless I am looking at this from a different approach?
September 29, 2016 at 11:51 pm #273641AnonymousInactiveThat is true…unless you are using say Naval Flag Signals, or Semifor, or other military visual codes like BEAST signs.
Also, I think you are trying to turn the 5e system into all the crunchy glory of ARG. 5e is much more rules light. Thus there will be things that don’t make as much nitty gritty sense. But the advantage is it plays very fast because it is simple mechanically.
September 30, 2016 at 12:59 am #273643AnonymousInactivePage 21: A word on literacy. It refers to backgrounds on p. 27, but backgrounds is on p. 47.
Speaking of literacy, the primer states that the only way to gain literacy is by either playing a race that starts off literate, taking a background that grants literacy, or giving up one of your character’s total languages known to gain literacy.
What about the Feat Linguist (pg. 167 of the 5e PHB)? It states you ‘studied languages and codes’, granting +1 Int, gaining three languages of one’s choice, and the ability to create written ciphers (wouldn’t this course of studies make one literate?). Was this feat overlooked?
Since the primer was so focused on character creation the unspoken assumption behind that passage about literacy is that it only applies at character creation. It should read that the only way to gain literacy at character creation is through race, background or give up a language. When leveling up your character, the Linguist feat is a valid option and would grant literacy.
It’s a good point to raise and something we can clarify in the full 5e book.
October 6, 2016 at 9:56 pm #273656AnonymousInactiveHi all
Quick question (well two)
If we have played a module in ARPG and then create a 5th ed character and play the mod. Do we get a replay or full credits?
October 6, 2016 at 11:39 pm #273658AnonymousInactiveHi, got some local guys interested and going to start on some intros, does the GM get a volunteer cert if they ‘eat’ the mod, like previous campaign documents?
also
i cant seem to find the pre gen characters, are they done yet?
cheers
Scott
October 18, 2016 at 6:18 am #273745AnonymousInactiveJust found another possibility granting literacy, but it is very class specific. It involves the Warlock class and its Eldritch Invocation feature: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (pg. 111 of the 5e PHB). Once (if) this feature is taken, the Warlock can read all writing. Should/Would this not grant literacy?
October 18, 2016 at 3:48 pm #273750AnonymousInactiveIf this ability is allowed in the 5e Arcanis game (I need to review the Warlock class as it has been the one I’ve shown the least interest in), I believe it very specifically grants literacy as per what you stated.
October 18, 2016 at 8:42 pm #273754AnonymousInactiveFound a possible discrepancy in the Primer regarding the Dwarf. On pg. 22 of the Primer, under Dwarf Common Traits, the excerpt on Speed, it says: “Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor.”
In 5e, Heavy Armor doesn’t reduce Speed. They do, however, all grant disadvantage on Stealth checks. Is the Dwarf trait an error or is it a feature of Heavy Armors being implemented in to Arcanis 5e?
Also, I think you are trying to turn the 5e system into all the crunchy glory of ARG.
Sorry you got that impression, however, this was never the intention.
October 19, 2016 at 3:57 pm #273767AnonymousInactiveFound a possible discrepancy in the Primer regarding the Dwarf. On pg. 22 of the Primer, under Dwarf Common Traits, the excerpt on Speed, it says: “Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor.”
In 5e, Heavy Armor doesn’t reduce Speed. They do, however, all grant disadvantage on Stealth checks. Is the Dwarf trait an error or is it a feature of Heavy Armors being implemented in to Arcanis 5e?
That’s was included in error.. ignore that line.
We will update the primer to remove it
October 19, 2016 at 5:46 pm #273768AnonymousInactiveJust found another possibility granting literacy, but it is very class specific. It involves the Warlock class and its Eldritch Invocation feature: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (pg. 111 of the 5e PHB). Once (if) this feature is taken, the Warlock can read all writing. Should/Would this not grant literacy?
I would assume it gives what it says – the ability to read any writing. It does not give literacy in every language. You can read anything, but you can only speak and write the languages you know.
October 19, 2016 at 7:32 pm #273769AnonymousInactiveJust found another possibility granting literacy, but it is very class specific. It involves the Warlock class and its Eldritch Invocation feature: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (pg. 111 of the 5e PHB). Once (if) this feature is taken, the Warlock can read all writing. Should/Would this not grant literacy?
I would assume it gives what it says – the ability to read any writing. It does not give literacy in every language. You can read anything, but you can only speak and write the languages you know.
Correct… you can read anything…
October 22, 2016 at 3:07 pm #273788AnonymousInactivePage 48 Variant Former Legionnaire Background under armor it refers to Lorica Squamata (chain mail). Lorica Squamata was scale mail. The chain mail was referred to as Lorica Hamata. A minor thing that can be fixed later but it jumped out at me when I read it this morning.
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OF course that begs the question do they mean the medium armor “chain shirt” which more closely matches what the real world legionnaires wore OR the “chain mail” armor in the book with makes me think of a Norman style chain hauberk.
Personally I assume chain shirt. But this is Arcanis so I wonder what the official ruling is. Thanks!
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