Hello again, SWRPG Community! Our team is back with another exciting announcement - The Commander (and the Colonist review). Save for the Instructor, who needed a protracted discussion about replacing skills, this was a pretty clean and uncontroversial bit of development. We’re very proud of how we’ve improved upon the power, scope, and flavor of these specializations.
As per usual, I like to talk about my favorite here in the discussion below the press release. This release, it’s the Instructor. We had to completely redesign which skills it got, how it used its skills, and what being a military instructor means for the player. Adding in Well-Rounded and Skilled Teacher gave it a “skill monkey support” element it couldn’t have hoped for before, and being able to choose either Leadership, Coercion or both as social elements feels very good from a player choice perspective. The Teacher is one of the best trees in the game, so emulating some fraction of its excellence while being a tank and a force-multiplier in combat is a great opportunity to have.
As per usual, I would like to thank my excellent and dedicated design team:
Ebak - Graphic Designer, Designer
Filbert - Resource Coordinator, Designer
Matope - Lead Layout Designer
And a big thank you to all the development enthusiasts that provide excellent ideas, help us dial in balance, and tell us what should stay on the cutting room floor.
Below are the full release notes for v.32:
Version .32 - The The Commander Update
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Newly Released Specialization
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Updated Specializations
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- Beast Rider 1.1
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- Updated Master Rider to specify Survival and other similar checks that can be made as maneuvers, to include all Rider actions, attacks, and actions like Soothing Tone .
- Doctor 1.2
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- Removed both ranks of Rapid Recovery from the specialization.
- Added rank of Physician to differentiate the Doctor and Medic.
- Created Preexisting Condition as an offensive-forward utility for the Doctor, which can be used in conflict and in social situations.
- Lightly restructured the right side of the tree pursuant of the above changes.
- Entrepreneur 1.2
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- Updated the text of Hired Help so that it follows style guide for talent short and long text, replacing references of “you” the player to “the character.”
- Marshal 1.2
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- Updated and Buffed Merciful Shot and Improved Merciful Shot to more actively reward using non-lethal weapons, and give the Marshal more options in using their advantages during non-lethal combat.
- Updated the long text of Sidearm Diplomacy to allow the Game Master the caveat to have the use of the talent to be no-consequence in low-stakes situations.
- Minor edit of Sidearm Diplomacy long text entry to correctly display that is a ranked talent.
- Performer 1.3
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- Removed both Feint and Second Wind as redundant talents.
- Rewrote and renamed Friendly Jab to Dazzling Flourish , so that it more accurately represented the intended flavor of a distracting attack that gives allies an opening for follow-up.
- Created Captive Audience as a social utility capstone that allows the Performer to be the ultimate distraction in non-combat situations.
- Added Lighten The Mood from Wingmate to represent the Performer’s bardic niche of inspiring and caring for teammates.
- Restructured the specialization greatly to reduce the overall emphasis on combat, and made that section of the tree more like ⅖ of the tree versus ½.
- Politico 1.2
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- Connected Scathing Tirade and Inspiring Rhetoric laterally with the “corruption-themed” Greased Palms and Well-Connected , to better allow for “Dips” into corruption, should the character be so inclined.
- Renamed Hammer The Point to Skilled Orator to better-reflect it being a talent more generically about social force multiplication rather than the implied fervency or anger.
- Scholar 1.2
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- Replaced Supreme Researcher with Authority On The Subject . The former was a little too force-multiplication, and the specialization had no way to interact offensively, so the new talent does just that.
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LittlestMinish (Drew) ~ Lead Designer