It really depends on how you flavor the Rune Knight
The RK I played in a CoS campaign was multiclassed with a couple levels of Aberrant Mind sorcerer and had a backstory of, "he's actually part aberration (but doesn't know it) because his father cut a deal with some Entity to make his fortune". So I always described it as kind of a reality-warping/confusion effect, where the enemy would think they're attacking one of the party, but then my eyes would glow that weird pinkish-purple from the Color Out of Space and they'd find they'd actually stabbed an ally
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Active characters:
Edoumiaond Willegume "Eddie" Podslee, Vegetanian scholar (College of Spirits bard) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Peter "the Pied Piper" Hausler, human con artist/remover of vermin (Circle of the Shepherd druid) PIPA - Planar Interception/Protection Aeormaton, warforged bodyguard and ex-wizard hunter (Warrior of the Elements monk/Cartographer artificer) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
I'm curious about how other DMs view the Cloud Rune ability of the Rune Knight.
Do you see it as a visible redirect?
A "glitch in the matrix" moment?
A reality edit of which no one is aware?
Or something else?
The two facts that always hang me up are that it happens AFTER a hit and that it can defy the original attack's range.
It really depends on how you flavor the Rune Knight
The RK I played in a CoS campaign was multiclassed with a couple levels of Aberrant Mind sorcerer and had a backstory of, "he's actually part aberration (but doesn't know it) because his father cut a deal with some Entity to make his fortune". So I always described it as kind of a reality-warping/confusion effect, where the enemy would think they're attacking one of the party, but then my eyes would glow that weird pinkish-purple from the Color Out of Space and they'd find they'd actually stabbed an ally
Active characters:
Edoumiaond Willegume "Eddie" Podslee, Vegetanian scholar (College of Spirits bard)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Peter "the Pied Piper" Hausler, human con artist/remover of vermin (Circle of the Shepherd druid)
PIPA - Planar Interception/Protection Aeormaton, warforged bodyguard and ex-wizard hunter (Warrior of the Elements monk/Cartographer artificer)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Two ways you can play it as are the attack ricochets of the armour, weapon and hits target of cloud rune. The other they just attack their comrades