TOPIC: 2025 Rare Tokens

Rare

General comment (duplicated in Uncommon thread):
This is the first year since 2009 without a Polymorph enabler at either the Uncommon or Rare level. Can we add a Polymorph potion at either rarity?

+1 Sea Raider Battle Club:
Needs to be updated to match the new damage wheel of the Uncommon SR Battle Club

+1 sea raider battle club: Bards can almost always use rare 1 handed melee weapons usable by Druid and Ranger. The only exceptions I can find are the oddball +1 stout Dwarven staff (usable by everyone but bard and rogue) and two scimitars (most recently from 2013).

Bead of Bear Hug: new mechanic for app developers to keep track of. New players won’t know to tell their DMs to apply this, and many experienced players will have better stuff for their bead slots. It’s fine as is though I think.

Everything else looks ready to go.

I'm glad the Trinket limiting trinkets to one per dungeon is gone. Maybe replace this year with a polymorph potion? Or, since per the other thread Trinkets are no longer 1/game, maybe put a rare trinket back on the menu?

Assuming I dont need to refresh the rare shirt of luck seems basically identical to the transmuted shirt.

Upon closer inspection it looks like the transmuted shirt can also be worn with URS. Even so, perhaps the rare shirt should be knocked down to +2, which would still leave it ahead of the rare Dandy shirts +1 saves and make the benefit of the transmute more clear.

+1 Mystic Staff of Loki: This token seems to be the first to allow players to deal psychic damage. Is that intentional?

Battle Bracers: Very cool. Tokens that benefit unarmed monks only are great at rare level.

Bead of the Bear Hug: I don’t like conditional damage effects because players will have to remind DMs about the trigger. I also think Monk should be left off this version of the tokens because it already has a strong damage token in this set.

Fang of Fenrir: I much prefer this version. DMs may need a little more guidance in a FAQ regarding which attacks to negate but this token is manageable.

E.g. if a werewolf makes two 5 point claw attacks then one 10 point bite attack, as a DM which one should I negate? The first? The most damaging? Whichever I feel like?

Potion Volva's Ale:
Reword parenthetical to "(may drink only 1 per room)" to match that of the Common and Uncommon Potions.

Picc wrote: Assuming I dont need to refresh the rare shirt of luck seems basically identical to the transmuted shirt.

Upon closer inspection it looks like the transmuted shirt can also be worn with URS.

And Enhanced and Exalted tokens.

Really, Really, Really love the blue glow on those 500 GP tokens.

Anyone wanna start lining up some trades with me?
I feel like I'll be wanting to collect a *lot* of these tokens : )

Tyr's Ring of Sacred Wrath: can we reword to avoid "SA" which casual players won't understand? I think it's fine to refer people to tokenDB for edge cases and for UR+ tokens, but this is neither. Suggestions:

• "Mark off Cure Light Wounds spell box to do 5 pts Sacred dmg to 1 target (standard action)"
• "As an action may mark off..."
  (rationale: if you know enough to ask what kind of action, then you can check tokenDB and confirm for sure that it's a standard action, or double-check with your friendly neighborhood coach, but for most people "okay, this uses up my action for the turn" is enough to go on with)

Raven wrote: Really, Really, Really love the blue glow on those 500 GP tokens.

Anyone wanna start lining up some trades with me?
I feel like I'll be wanting to collect a *lot* of these tokens : )

So what your saying is one of the AOW power for grind should involve turning in a blue currency token in 2025

David Zych wrote: Tyr's Ring of Sacred Wrath: can we reword to avoid "SA" which casual players won't understand? I think it's fine to refer people to tokenDB for edge cases and for UR+ tokens, but this is neither. Suggestions:

• "Mark off Cure Light Wounds spell box to do 5 pts Sacred dmg to 1 target (standard action)"
• "As an action may mark off..."
  (rationale: if you know enough to ask what kind of action, then you can check tokenDB and confirm for sure that it's a standard action, or double-check with your friendly neighborhood coach, but for most people "okay, this uses up my action for the turn" is enough to go on with)

+1; veterans generally know what SA means (it's not Sneak Attack), but new players (i.e., those most likely to use Rares) may not. This change should also be made to the Belt of Belching and Ring of the Stag.

Writing out "Standard Action" is probably fine: see the 2021 Uncommon Dwarven Charm for an example of this.