Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Sound of Silence

Question: Why doesn't Shroud of Silence have a stealth bonus when Divine Threnody does?

You make a valid point, sir. Divine Threnody confers a bonus equal to the Scion's total Sky boons in dice to those attempting to sneak around while the boon is being used to deaden sound. It doesn't make a lot of sense that Shroud of Silence, which completely and totally erases all sound, isn't also helping our stealthy rogues out, does it?

We're eyeball-deep in a lot of projects right now and we can't see the light, so this will probably go in our boon changelog along with a million other things for the moment. John suggests that, for the time being, you go ahead and use the same mechanic - Moon boons as dice to Stealth rolls - for Shroud of Silence that is currently in effect for Divine Threnody. We'll probably make that bonus a little more potent when we have time to work on it, since Shroud does a full silence instead of just a muffling and Moon has fewer total boons to call on than does Sky, but for the moment it'll give your lunar Scions a little bit of a boost until we have time to sit down and balance.

John suggests that everyone change their vote on the poll from the Amatsukami overhaul to working on various boons. He promises this is because he has your best interests at heart, and not because he's hiding from Japan and having to fix yet another PSP.

2 comments:

  1. Another boon for your changelog:
    Your houserules state that you don't use toxicity anymore.
    Toxic Thorn (fertility) still does.

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    1. ...holy shit, how did that sneak past us? Thank you!

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