Ankh-Morpork Guard
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They may have changed it because that'll make a THIRD CA named book. Its confusing enough with CA(arcane) and CA(adventurer) already! 
Codex Anathema changed to... Lords of Madness?
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Geoff Watson
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Ferrix said:
They weren't wastes of space; each monster starts on a new page, so if they left them out you'd just have blank space instead.
Geoff.
Li Shenron
Legend
I also thought that Codex Anathema didn't sound about aberration, but rather about evil outsiders.
OTOH Lords of Madness is pretty generic, compared to Draconomicon and Libris Mortis which had a more stylish and mysterious sound which suited the idea of a "prestige book". I think they could have put a little bit more effort in thinking the name...
OTOH Lords of Madness is pretty generic, compared to Draconomicon and Libris Mortis which had a more stylish and mysterious sound which suited the idea of a "prestige book". I think they could have put a little bit more effort in thinking the name...
Gez
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The "Complete" Series has been translated in French as the "Codex" series (ie, Codex Martial for Complete Warrior, Codex Divin for Complete Divine, etc.). But I do not suppose this was the reason for the change.
Avoiding duplicate acronyms, I could buy it, if we didn't have Players' Handbook, Psionics Handbook, and Planar Handbook... Even if Psionics Handbook is now replaced by Expanded Psionics Handbook, EPH or XPH instead of PH.
PS: For insanity in Greek, you can try Phobos (terror), Deimos (panic), Pathos (suffering), or Tuphos (dementation).
Somebody who actually studied Greek could probably find better (or more accurate
) matches.
Avoiding duplicate acronyms, I could buy it, if we didn't have Players' Handbook, Psionics Handbook, and Planar Handbook... Even if Psionics Handbook is now replaced by Expanded Psionics Handbook, EPH or XPH instead of PH.
PS: For insanity in Greek, you can try Phobos (terror), Deimos (panic), Pathos (suffering), or Tuphos (dementation).
Somebody who actually studied Greek could probably find better (or more accurate
) matches.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Heck, how about Denizens of the Far Realm or something instead of Lords of Madness?
Li Shenron
Legend
Gez said:
"Phobos & Deimos" would be more unintelligible than Codex Anathema
but it's actually the names of planet Mars's satellites, so it may have something to do with alien monsters... 
frankthedm
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Li Shenron said:"Phobos & Deimos" would be more unintelligible than Codex Anathema
& some might think it is the D20 Doom Rules.
The cover did kind of look like trouble. What was worse the victim was male, and THAT would definitly cost sales in the RPG market.
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