[GR PR] Secret College of Necromancy

Nikchick · Jan 26, 2002

Green Ronin is proud to announce our May 2002 release, Secret College of Necromancy!

Secret College of Necromancy
An Arcana Sourcebook for the d20 System
Written by David "Zeb" Cook and Wolfgang Baur
Cover by rk post
96 pages, perfect bound

The Secret College lurks in the dark corners of every civilized nation. Its goal: to spread the twisted art of necromancy. Now the Secret College of Necromancy is revealed in this comprehensive sourcebook by 2nd edition AD&D designer David "Zeb" Cook and former Dragon Magazine editor Wolfgang Baur. Covering the full range of necromancy from spells and arcane grimoires to creatures and history, this 96-page book can invigorate any campaign. Even better, Secret College of Necromancy offers two new core classes and never-before-seen powers for player character wizards and sorcerers willing to walk the path of shadows.

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Available May 2002

JoeGKushner · Jan 26, 2002

While I am looking forward to this book, I'll be the first to admit that I'm getting a little 'Necromancered' out. The Necromancy book by Moongoose, the Hollowfaust book, and of course, WoTC own take with some of their prestige classes (and the Diablo 2 class.)

Isn't there another field of magic that needs some work? Illusion? Divination? Necromancy is great for players and GMs but let's move on eh? Not directed at Green Ronin but to d20 publishers who may think of going, "No, this isn't the way to do necromancy! I know the true secrets!

Nightfall · Jan 26, 2002

Dead bodies everywhere...

Well Joe I can understand where you're coming from, the fact is, most people are facsinated with death and what lies beyond. The necromancer is a representitive of those fears, hopes and dreams. So yeah, necromancy might be over done in d20, the fact is there are LOT of people who view death, control of it, and undeath as a facsinating field.

Course I do agree, there should be OTHER fields that need exploring. Like Summoning, Enchanting (in making powerful enchantments for stuff or on stuff), and even just elementalist stuff. Still I am looking forward to see this. I just need to get around to picking up Arcana.

Nikchick · Jan 26, 2002

JoeGKushner said:
While I am looking forward to this book, I'll be the first to admit that I'm getting a little 'Necromancered' out. The Necromancy book by Moongoose, the Hollowfaust book, and of course, WoTC own take with some of their prestige classes (and the Diablo 2 class.)

Isn't there another field of magic that needs some work? Illusion? Divination? Necromancy is great for players and GMs but let's move on eh? Not directed at Green Ronin but to d20 publishers who may think of going, "No, this isn't the way to do necromancy! I know the true secrets!

Hey, I hear you, Joe. That's why we're moving into other things, like the Alchemists Handbook, which we're very excited about. It tackles a new school of spellcasting and it's by the same fantastic author as is doing our Shaman and Witches books.

But when we started the College of Necromancy project, we had only Mongoose's book to contend with, and with no disrespect intended, figured that a 64-page book wasn't likely to exhaust all the possibilities for Necromancy.

Of course, other people thought that too, obviously.

It's one of the dangers of d20 being open and active with so many publishers, and we're trying to remain aware of it, while continuing to work on projects that we think are worthwhile.

Nicole

Nightfall · Jan 27, 2002

Personally Nik, I'm in favor of it. Any chance to improve on my necromantic lich ideas, are ALWAYS welcome.

After all, thanks to Mongoose, I have a chance to make some REALLY nasty spellslinging, undead loving kind of wizard I only read about in some books. Larloch eat your heart out!

JoeGKushner · Jan 27, 2002

Nikchick said:
Hey, I hear you, Joe. That's why we're moving into other things, like the Alchemists Handbook, which we're very excited about. It tackles a new school of spellcasting and it's by the same fantastic author as is doing our Shaman and Witches books.

Nicole

Ah, Alchemy. I loved the old Bard Games Complete Alchemist. Someone should find that man and have him do d20 stuff. (Anyone else remember the Complete Spellcaster and Complete Adventuerer? The Atlantis Triology? What edition of Talislanta are they on now? Showing my age again...)

Hope that Alchemy doesn't get hit big now. (Isn't Bastion doing something along those lines?) while I like variety, I'd like to see something rare like Chronomagic, or something involing the good Old Ones style magic.

Looking forward to the product!

Psychotic Dreamer · Jan 27, 2002

Personally I would love to see a book focused on summoning. You could have prestiege classes that allow summoning of a large varient type of creatures. While also giving Stat blocks for the creates that can be summoned. Maybe new templates that can be added to the summoned creatures. Just some random thoughts.

baseballfury · Jan 27, 2002

JoeGKushner said:
While I am looking forward to this book, I'll be the first to admit that I'm getting a little 'Necromancered' out. The Necromancy book by Moongoose, the Hollowfaust book, and of course, WoTC own take with some of their prestige classes (and the Diablo 2 class.)

I'm definitely looking forward to this book. While the topic has been covered in some previous supplements, I don't think anyone has written THE great necromancy book for d20 yet. The Mongoose one was short and, like the other Mongoose books I've read, it seemed like a rushed first draft gone to print. I am certainly willing to give Zeb Cook a crack at Necromancy!

EricNoah · Jan 27, 2002

That cover ... is just wacky! Very colorful, lots of interesting details to absorb...

RHM · Jan 28, 2002

Very cool. Just wondering, how much playtesting goes into a product like this? Does Green Ronin intend to provide support (i.e. any necessary errata) after it's released?

Regardless, I'm a big fan of Zeb Cook's past contributions to gaming, so I'm really looking forward to checking this book out.

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