WotC Sept-Dec 05 Catalog

I just picked up the WotC winter catlog at my FLGS and thought that others might be interested in some more info on new releases:
Magic of Incarnum - introduces an entirely new kind of magic powered by souls; living, dead, and unborn. The souls can be placed into magic items or living bodies to give them great power. New base classes, prestige classes, feats, etc.
Sons of Gruumsh - 32 pages, 4th level stand alone adventure set in the Moonsea area, designed to facilitate the use of D&D minis
Fane of the Drow - 2 double sided poster maps scaled for minis, 16 page adventure, and mini skirmish scenarios
d20 Cyberspace - expands on cyber rules from d20 future, including psionic and magic cyber rules, also has VR rules
Heroes of Horror - rules for taint and dread, advice on different sorts of horror campaigns, new base classes and new monsters
Magic of Eberron - new spells, elemental binding rules, infusions, dragon shards, dragon magic, daelkyr magic
Hellspike prison - see Fane of the Drow
Champions of Valor - prestige classes, feats, spells, details on organizations and guilds
Spell Compendium - all of the most used D&D spells, updates on some classic spells from previous editions, new spell format that featurs descriptive text
D20 Critical Locations - maps of common modern locations with adventure hooks and pre-generated characters
Underdark Booster Pack - Drow priestess on box, featurs minis from Monster Manual, Book of Exalted Deeds, Complete Adventurer, Underdark, Unapproachable East, City of the Spider Queen, and the FRCS. Eight minis will have two cards, one for normal play and one for Epic play.

kilamanjaro said:

Magic of Incarnum - introduces an entirely new kind of magic powered by souls; living, dead, and unborn. The souls can be placed into magic items or living bodies to give them great power. New base classes, prestige classes, feats, etc.

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Anyone else read that and just ... squick?

kilamanjaro said:

Fane of the Drow - 2 double sided poster maps scaled for minis, 16 page adventure, and mini skirmish scenarios

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I know a number of people will freak at this, since they feel D&D is going towards a minis game and hate that. Still, I like this a lot. Even if I didn't use miniatures, having 2 double-sided poster maps is something that would get me to buy a product like this.

OK, so the Fantastic Locales things are just Ultimate Mission Packs for DDM. It has been asked on the DDM board, so it will make at least the mini players happy.

Magic of Incarnum seems wickedly cool, and cooly wicked. Patryn, I don't know what you meant by "squick", but if you meant "IWANTITGIMMEGIMMIE!!!" then I share your sentiment.

Good to know Magic of Eberron will have rules for elemental binding.

As I said when I last changed my custom title, there are two books there that screamed at me I needed them, and it was both Magic of books. Looking at this overview of the content comforts me in this feeling.

kilamanjaro said:

Spell Compendium - all of the most used D&D spells, updates on some classic spells from previous editions, new spell format that featurs descriptive text

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hmmmmm.....not sure what to make of this yet. Part of me would really like to have all of the spells from the SRD and the various other Wizards releases (the Complete books, for example) in one neat package for ease of use, but it doesn't sound like that is what this is exactly. I'm interested to see what this turns out to be.

Gez said:

Magic of Incarnum seems wickedly cool, and cooly wicked. Patryn, I don't know what you meant by "squick", but if you meant "IWANTITGIMMEGIMMIE!!!" then I share your sentiment.

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Squick is disgust. Those Brits who murdered the retarded guy recently elcited a squick response from me.

Magic of Incarnum sounds very, very interesting...in fact, pretty much all of it does. I may not play Eberron, but Elemental Binding rules has my attention.

Woo - some interesting things there. Fane of the Drow is not what I thought it would be...

kilamanjaro, could you please list the prices?

Cheers!

Gez said:

Magic of Incarnum seems wickedly cool, and cooly wicked. Patryn, I don't know what you meant by "squick", but if you meant "IWANTITGIMMEGIMMIE!!!" then I share your sentiment.

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Yeah, as posted, "squick" means ... a more powerful "ick."

I mean, yeah, rules for badguys sacrificing hundreds to their undead god-thing, whatever.

Rules for spells leeching life from the unborn? Squick.

Kewl!