TOPIC: Transmute Ideas Please!

Brad Mortensen wrote:

jedibcg wrote: I think all of the medium stuff just sounds silly. In dnd there is nothing called a medium sword. In real life there isn't anything called a medium sword. There are short and long sword in both. Just my two cents.

There are “hand-and-a-half” swords, aka Bastard Swords. But those are more like XL Swords, between Long and Two-handed.

Ohhh there are all kinds of swords. I just haven't heard of a medium sword by name. Just naming a bunch of stuff medium sound odd to me. Not against Mike 7 instead of 6 idea just calling it a medium sword.

Mike Steele wrote:

Brad Mortensen wrote:

Mike Steele wrote:

jedibcg wrote: Someone mark the date. Mike agreed with Brad.

It's happened many times.

No it hasn’t!

LoL just kidding, of course it has. There’s just one topic that we may never see eye to eye.

You've got a lot of great ideas, and a lot of passion for TD. We just differ a bit regarding that one topic.

What is that 1 topic

archmage78 wrote: What is that 1 topic

I don't know if you are joking or just don't read the forums much...lol.

archmage78 wrote:

Mike Steele wrote:

Brad Mortensen wrote:

Mike Steele wrote:

jedibcg wrote: Someone mark the date. Mike agreed with Brad.

It's happened many times.

No it hasn’t!

LoL just kidding, of course it has. There’s just one topic that we may never see eye to eye.

You've got a lot of great ideas, and a lot of passion for TD. We just differ a bit regarding that one topic.

What is that 1 topic

Various subjects revolving around Treasure Enhancers.

To be honest, we're not even as much in disagreement as it usually appears (I think). Brad is an advocate for not having any more treasure enhancing tokens, having a cap on the max amount of treasure chips allowed, etc. I'm not opposed to any of that if Jeff decides it's in the best interest of True Dungeon. I'm just not as convinced it's necessary, and I'm concerned about possible impacts on Token Revenue for True Dungeon if it stops making new TE URs. But like I said, I'll be 100% behind solutions like a cap on treasure chips, going to just reprint TE URs, or no TE URs at all, if True Dungeon ever decides to go in that direction.

It's not even an issue until the TE UR in 2023, since we know the 2021 TE UR will be the Platinum Nugget. If Jeff does decide to make new TE URs in 2023 and 2025 instead of reprints, I'll definitely recommend they only give two bonus treasure chips each, since the Nuggets have shown that there is a huge amount of them sold at that level. If there is a new TE UR every two years that gives only two bonus treasure chips, that's just an increase of one treasure chip per year as the maximum, which might be OK since prices will likely go up at least a little on average per year (although I hope they stay as low as possible for as long as possible). And I recognize reasonable people can disagree with that.

Are you saying that at the TE nuggets will be able to be combined?

jedibcg wrote:

archmage78 wrote: What is that 1 topic

I don't know if you are joking or just don't read the forums much...lol.

Not joking. And for the record, long before Brad had disagreements with Mr. Steele I argued long and hard against TE.

And as to reading the forums, not everybody argues as politely and engagingly as Mr. Steele. I long ago stopped following when a few greedy shortsighted players thought that they were the only players who were important and all new players were a waste of time made following this forum not the best use of my time..

archmage78 wrote: Are you saying that at the TE nuggets will be able to be combined?

No, I didn't mean to say that. Jeff stated that the three Nuggets won't be ingredients in any transmute that combined TE tokens. Although I am hoping that he might make a Transmute that combines all three nuggets and still requires the three slots, just to make them quicker and easier to check in the coaching room.

So some of the thoughts on relics were really interesting. I really like the idea of the class relics being able to become 1 of 2 items to give the player a choice of what they want to do.

Amulet of the warden
Ranger only
+1 damage ranged
+2 DeX
Doubles the crit range of any rare ranged weapon

Amulet of master warden
+2 damage ranged
+3 DeX
Doubles critical hit range of ultra rare weapon.

Amulet of the war warden
+3 ranged damage
+4 dex
Doubles crit range of all ranged weapons

Barbarian necklace:
Amulet of Creative Insult
+5 dmg if DM laughs.

Ok, so I've tried to file it down to this version of the Ranger Legendary-Path Transmute with everyone's input in mind. And I've included some concept art for the Relic and Legendary (all images shamelessly stolen and altered from the web).

UR - Amulet of the Agile Shot - Neck - Any
+2 Dex, +2 Ranged Damage

(Or)

UR - Bracers of Supreme Archery - Wrist - Any
+2 Ranged Damage +2 To Hit to all ranged attacks and +2 Damage to all ranged attacks made with physical weapons.



Relic - Amulet of the Sharpshooter - Neck - Ranger
+3 DEX, +5 to favored damage; add favored enemies (Giants, Fea, and Constructs)





Legendary - Heartseeker (or Taulmaril) - Neck - Ranger
+4 to DEX, +7 to favored damage; ignore damage reduction/ crit block of favored enemies,
add favored enemies (Giants, Fea, Constructs, Dragons, Evil Outsiders, and Aberrations)





Little bit of D&D History: Taulmaril, also known as the Heartseeker, was Catti-brie's magic bow, which passed on to Drizzt after her death.*

*R.A. Salvatore (March 2014). Night of the Hunter

Mike Steele wrote:

archmage78 wrote: Are you saying that at the TE nuggets will be able to be combined?

No, I didn't mean to say that. Jeff stated that the three Nuggets won't be ingredients in any transmute that combined TE tokens. Although I am hoping that he might make a Transmute that combines all three nuggets and still requires the three slots, just to make them quicker and easier to check in the coaching room.

Personally I hope they get rolled into the next mega TE such that the next legendary TE might not stack with them similar to how the COA does not stack with ROR HOP of COGF, that would also give whoever is coming on board at that point a chance to catch up a bit if there's an alt formula using whatever TE is in print at the time.

@Mike Steele:

Close. I’ve no objection to more TEs in general. I’m more about not raising the max loot any one player can draw.

Hoping that ticket prices will keep rising as a way to limit farmers’ profit and justify endlessly spiraling loot draws seems perverse to me. It’s asking newbies to subsidize our insatiable greed by paying more for loot they won’t be getting. That’s how I look at it. But maybe that’s just me.

But yeah, Mike and I agree on a lot of other things.