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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2021-11-19 16:03:15

Can you give some examples?

StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2021-11-19 23:26:52

From Ghostly Glide, currently as a Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition bullet under Tabletop Games:

  • Dragon Magazine #359 introduces the "Footsteps of the Mage" feat, permitting an arcane caster to glide without actually taking steps. This confer greater balance and even allows to move with bound feet.

From Spin to Deflect Stuff, idem:

  • The feat to perform this is called "Spinning Defense" (from Dragon Magazine #331). It requires a polearm and focusing entirely on defense, but allow the use of Deflect Arrows an unlimited number of times (while it's usually limited to one projectile per round).

From Elemental Weapon:

  • Dragon magazine #127: The bow Ice Fang can create and fire arrows of ice out of water vapor in the air. The arrows do double damage against creatures that use or dwell in fire. In temperatures of 120 degrees Fahrenheit or higher the arrows have half normal range.

Obvious Rule Patch:

  • The article "What's a Wizard to Do?" in Dragon Magazine #219 by Anne Brown, one of the playtesters of the Birthright setting, revealed that the published version of the realm spell move troops was changed to a portal the army travelled through (and could decide not to) rather than a teleport effect, after she used the teleport version on enemy troops, and sent them straight into a monster lair.

Morality-Guided Attack:

  • Dragon Magazine #229 article "Bazaar of the Bizarre". When the Wheel of Light Rays is spun like a pinwheel it emits a bright pattern of light up to 30 feet away. Any evil creature in the area of effect must make a saving throw or take 1-4 Hit Points of damage for each point of karma it has.

Edited by StFan
Orbiting Since: Nov, 2014
2021-11-20 07:36:13

I think they should stay in Tabletop Games, since the magazine is an offical distribution from the game's publisher and is an official supplement to the game. If the specific medium of the game's published info matters, shouldn't all other examples be moved to the literature section since they're about info that comes from books?

Exxolon Since: Jul, 2010
2021-11-20 07:49:53

All those examples might come from a magazine, but they apply to the table top game itself. Hence that's the correct folder.

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