The Tome Ep 101: Players Handbook 2

This episode, looking at the new Players Handbook 2 has a whole bevy of guests.

Guest:

Jeremiah McCoy

Phillipe-Antoine Menard

Will Wong

and Ed Healy

Sponsors:

RPG Now

Pick of the Episode: Hard Boiled Armies

Other Links:

Critical Hits

Jeff on Twitter

Vorpal Network on Twitter

We looked at the PH2 and used a scale of:

Good (G) = liked it

Unaligned (U) = eh...whatever

Evil (E) = didn't like it

We looked at...

Races:

Deva - Good
McCoy - U/G
Will - G
Phil - G
Ed - G
Jeff - G

Gnome - Unaligned
McCoy - G
Will - G
Phil - U
Ed - G/U
Jeff - U/G

Goliath - Good
Will - G
Ed - G
Phil - G
McCoy - G
Jeff - U/G

Half-Orc - Unaligned
Ed - U
McCoy - U
Phil - U
Will - U/G
Jeff - G

Shifter - Good
Phil - U/E
McCoy - G
Will - G
Ed - G
Jeff U/E

Racial Paragon Paths - Good
Unanimously - G

We also looked at the new classes like...

Avenger - Good
Unanimously - G

Barbarian - Good
Unanimously - G

Bard - Good
Will - U
Ed - G
Phil - U
McCoy - G
Jeff - G

Druid - Unaligned/Good
McCoy - U/G
Ed - G
Phil - U
Will - G
Jeff - U

Invoker - Good
Everyone but Jeff - G
Jeff - U

Shaman - Good
Everyone but McCoy - G
McCoy - U

Sorcerer - Unaligned
McCoy - U
Phil - G
Will - U
Ed - U
Jeff - G

Warden - Good
McCoy - E
Phil - G
Ed - U
Will - G
Jeff - U

And we also talked about Epic Destinies, Backgrounds, Feats, Items, Rituals, and Errata.

Phew...big episode, I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording!