2015 - 2016 Off Season Patch Notes

I'm assuming it's still a single field action per adventure, correct? And with the haste from pale ivory daggers, you would "save" it till your next action that requires an incant or is it immediate use only?

"A party may only use one field action per story," is in the linked rules for field actions. And Haste is not a status effect; you can either use it to reset your initiative or to perform some other actions that requires an incant or three-count.

So pale ivory dagger no longer gives you a refresh?

Correct Sam; if you'd like to part with a Pale Ivory Light Weapon, feel free to contact Esgir, your friendly neighborhood merchant ;)

Just a thought, any chance that the level of foraging Pale Ivory could be dropped since the effect has been dropped?

So, since the wizardries and such will be removed from items that we already spent time, effort, and resources on, can we opt to have them moved to a different item in our inventory that they fit on? Cause I know I personally dont want to have to pay another enchanter to enchant something Ive already had done once. 

Unlikely, Kenny. What was out of line was the benefit pale ivory was giving. I hadn't planned on changing the price, so the skill level required to harvest it will stay the same.

I'll consider it, David. I'm not done making changes, though, and don't want to get caught up in dozens of requests spread over six months of downtime. Once I'm done changing things, I'll address who deserves administrative action and what their options are.

Dropped Opportunist. Reduced the level prerequisite of Shadow Dancer from 6 to 3.

• Arcane Reclamation is now Magical Reclamation and can be used by theurges as well as mages.
• Ancestral Weapon now scales to include Awaken Weapon 2.
• Brutality now scales to include Berserk Strength.

• Cooperation is now available. This allows bards to also benefit whenever they use Guard or Strength on another character.
• Draconic Form is now available. This allows druids of 6th level or higher to add a breath weapon action while in Wild Form.
• Ghost Hunter is now available. This gives crusaders of 12th level or higher an at-will Unphase action.
• Tenacity is now available. This makes fighters of 12th level or higher immune to Dissipate and the auto-killing feature of Crit and Crush damage.
• Wrestler is now available. This makes monks of 6th level or higher immune to Pin and adds one to their own Pin attacks.

Added: Engineers or enchanters with at least 30 in another profession, or those with Gifted merits, can now enhance story items to grant profession bonuses with Wisdom enchantments or Apparatus mechanizations.

Added: Qi Mastery is now available. This allows monks to apply Hone to their unarmed attacks without using a prepared action.

Added: Rebel is now Command (again). Affected characters may now be instructed to obey arbitrary commands, but commands are limited to effect taglines or assumed actions and the effect ends as soon as they character completes the action.

Any chance of getting Wylde Tantrum and Berserker to sync up to full fill prerequisite? 

Done. Oversight on my part.

Thank you sir

For the new command, is "Defend" a valid command? Figured I should ask before somebody else does
 

"Defend" is neither a game effect not an assumed action, so no.

as an extension of billy's question can you command a player to attack another even if neither player is flagged? or is that an action that cannot be obeyed?

It wouldn't be possible for the user to make such a command, since it's tantamount to intentionally directing an attack against a non-flagged player.

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There is a 10-second break built into the effect. Guys, please read the full text of the effect before commenting.

Oops sorry about that. Ok bad idea. Honestly don't know how I would use it. Most of the ways I could think of requires meta gaming. I look forward to playing a monster and seeing what the players with Command come up with.

For writing/narrating purposes, is it still possible to do a similar game mechanic to how rebel worked? If so, could we still call it rebel or would that be a possible confusion with it now being command, again (even with the knowledge of the mechanics differences).

I'll have to think on it. It's less of a concern with balance and more a problem of interruptions due to long rules explanations. When in doubt, Frenzy is still legit. However, old mechanics tend to linger in storytelling long after I've written them out of the game. "Vicinity" hasn't been a thing for four years now.

It could be in the same boat as crush possibly?