3PP Release Coming Very Soon: Multiclasser's Manual, Volume 1

Timespike said:

Hopefully before the end of the month, but possibly early May; I have a couple odds and ends that still need to happen, but it's definitely coming along nicely.

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Anselm said:

So you have a sense of how long it will be? Full length book, full art?

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Timespike said:

Really scrambling to get this put together. I expect to spend most of my waking hours this weekend on it. I think at this point we're going to miss getting it out by the end of April, but there's some chance I might be able to have it done on Tuesday.

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Timespike said:

When I wound down the Thematic Toolkit series, I mentioned I'd be replacing it with a larger product called Multiclasser's Manual.

With work on the first one of those well underway, I figured it'd be good to tell folks about it!

The core of the book is the synergy feat chains; there are 25 two-class combinations covered, and of those, 24 are brand new, with the one reprint being the rogue/wizard chain from Thematic Toolkit: Venomous Shadow. The full list of two-class combinations is as follows:

• Cleric/Fighter
• Cleric/Rogue
• Cleric/Wizard
• Fighter/Rogue
• Fighter/Wizard
• Rogue/Wizard
• Fighter/Herald
• Marshal/Rogue
• Cleric/Herald
• Esper/Warlock
• Artificer/Druid
• Sorcerer/Wizard
• Marshal/Ranger
• Druid/Warlock
• Elementalist/Sorcerer
• Warlock/Wielder
• Adept/Sorcerer
• Adept/Cleric
• Cleric/Marshal
• Berserker/Ranger
• Ranger/Witch
• Bard/Warlock
• Herald/Wielder
• Savant/Scholar

A few notes about those combinations: while fighter/wizard is covered already, I wanted a heavily-armored "magical shock trooper" kind of option on deck and decided to make a feat chain for that. The Warlock/Wielder chain also has eleven feats in it; two that interweave the core class features and then one for each of the nine combinations of bonded artifact and pact boon that exist, and yes, if you take the Pactkeeper's Reward invocation, it is possible to pick up two of them if you wish.

Each of these combinations also not only comes with a fully-generic synergy feat chain, but some analysis and advice on how to combine the classes and 4-6 general character concepts with a list of suggested archetypes and backgrounds for each.

There is also one three class synergy feat called "paladin" that requires the opening synergy feats for the cleric/fighter, cleric/herald, and herald/fighter chains.

But the book isn't just synergy feat chains! Here's what else is in there:

• Four new archetypes:
  • Artificer: Experimental Chirurgeon
  • Rogue: Hand of the Highborn
  • Wielder: Reliquarian
  • Warlock: Avaricious
• A set of seventeen "profession" feats modeled on the Covert Training, Heraldic Training, and Woodcraft Training feats from the core rules. Each gives a minor benefit and one or two knacks from its associated class. Classes covered are adept, artificer, bard, berserker, cleric, druid, elementalist, esper, fighter, marshal, savant, scholar, warlock, wielder, witch, and wizard. (Which covers all the remaining first-party classes and the 5 third-party ones that are widely available.)
• Reprints of all the mechanical content from a bunch of smaller PMG releases! In particular, you will see the archetypes and supplemental content from the following in here:
  • Arcane Sniper
  • Confidence Mage
  • Field Agent
  • Fiery Justice
  • Mortalist
  • Spiritualist
• Reprints of various combat traditions and spells needed to make the new material work, such as the Sanctified Steel combat tradition first introduced in Sinuous Sentinels.

Coming very soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks. This thread will be updated with more precise information once I have it to share!

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