Bastion Press: Best Books?

[DMH]

The Player's Guide to Oathbound, found on Dragonwing's website somewhere, is the free update for the core to 3.5 and some significant changes to prestige races (which I like more than the second version).

Also, there is going to be a Pathfinder reboot from Epidemic Books this summer.

A&H has a serious problem in that there is a chart that does not jive with the feats chapter. The chart is the method the author meant- most of the feats are not required and xp only applies to magical creations. People look at the feats chapter and freak because that isn't mention anywhere.

I am suprised no one mentioned Arms and Armor 3.5.

One of my favorites that is rarely mentioned is Guildcraft. Organizations are important in world design and they can help in selecting (or designing) prestige classes.

 

[DMH]

The Player's Guide to Oathbound:

http://ghostwind.net/PGO.zip

Hundreds of pages of OB goodness for free. As I mentioned above, the new prestige races are in interesting take that more players and DMs should be willing to try out than the originals (xp for abilities) or prestige racial levels (from Wildwood). The new powers are in exchange for ability score increases and level dependant feats (those gained every 3rd level). They are weaker than the original but that isn't suprising as Oathbound suffered reverse power creep.

 

[Voadam]

I'd forgotten that Into the Black is a v.3.5 book! Doh! (I knew there was a reason that I like that book so much.)

So, besides Out for Blood, which of these 2003 releases are v.3.5: Doom Striders, Faeries, and Friends & Familiars?

And what's the scoop on Artifacts & Arcanum?

Doom Striders is 3.5, Faeries is 3.0, and I don't know about Friends and Familiars or Artifacts and Arcanum. I think the latter two were done by a separate imprint company.

 

[Voadam]

Heh. No kidding.






Okay, so I don't need any more convincing. However I am wondering, do any of the later books -- like Wrack and Ruin or Arena -- update the rules material in the main Oathbound hardcover to v.3.5? Or was there ever a PDF update?

Wildwood is 3.5 and redoes the main core with a world overview and such like the Oathbound book but with a focus on Wildwood instead of Penance. It includes turning the prestige races from xp for add on powers as it was in 3.0 to full racial classes with a prereq of the evolution feat or going to the power centers and doing that ritual thing. It also gives Unearthed Arcana/Arcana Unearthed style racial classes for the oathbound races (dover, frey, asherake, etc.)

 

[Knightfall]

The Player's Guide to Oathbound, found on Dragonwing's website somewhere, is the free update for the core to 3.5 and some significant changes to prestige races (which I like more than the second version).

The Player's Guide to Oathbound:

http://ghostwind.net/PGO.zip

Hundreds of pages of OB goodness for free. As I mentioned above, the new prestige races are in interesting take that more players and DMs should be willing to try out than the originals (xp for abilities) or prestige racial levels (from Wildwood). The new powers are in exchange for ability score increases and level dependant feats (those gained every 3rd level). They are weaker than the original but that isn't suprising as Oathbound suffered reverse power creep.

Thanks for the info... downloaded.

Also, there is going to be a Pathfinder reboot from Epidemic Books this summer.

Sweet!!!

 

[Knightfall]

Wildwood is 3.5 and redoes the main core with a world overview and such like the Oathbound book but with a focus on Wildwood instead of Penance. It includes turning the prestige races from xp for add on powers as it was in 3.0 to full racial classes with a prereq of the evolution feat or going to the power centers and doing that ritual thing. It also gives Unearthed Arcana/Arcana Unearthed style racial classes for the oathbound races (dover, frey, asherake, etc.)

I think that is going to be my primary Oathbound book until the Pathfinder version comes out.

 

[catsclaw227]

Wrack & Ruin, as well as Plains of Penance has some great fluff in it, so don't rule out getting the other books.

Are the PDFs unavailable? They aren't listed with Bastion's other stuff on RPGNow.com.

 

[Crothian]

Pale Designs: A Poisoner's Handbook is a very good book. It's problem was another better book on posions came out about the same time (I think) from Blue Devil Games called Posioncraft: the Dark Arts.

 

[Knightfall]

Wrack & Ruin, as well as Plains of Penance has some great fluff in it, so don't rule out getting the other books.

Are the PDFs unavailable? They aren't listed with Bastion's other stuff on RPGNow.com.

Well, as DMH noted, Epidemic Books is releasing a Pathfinder version of Oathbound; the company also owns the full back catalog of d20 Oathbound products published by Bastion Press.

Epidemic Books - Oathbound Products

It looks like you can still get some of the books as PDFs through Studio 2 Publishing...

Studio 2 Publishing, Inc.

 

[Ghostwind]

Robert-

Anytime you are on the fence about a Bastion book, just drop me an email. I'll send you a pdf of it to help your decision making.