Amazon February 2007 Titles

[nerfherder]

And here is another early 2007 release...

Complete Scoundrel (D&D Accessory) (Hardcover)
160 pages
January 16, 2007

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...104-5104411-6645534?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that.

Cheers,
Liam

 

[DaveMage]

Thanks for the scoops, Knightfall and takasi!

 

[mhacdebhandia]

To date, I don't believe that I've worked on any non-Eberron D20 products for WotC (though I've certainly done a few for other folks). So I'm thinking Amazon has a few wires crossed.

Dollars to doughnuts Dungeonscapes is actually a Rich Baker book? I seem to recall the same confusion over Tome of Battle.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I also bought Into the Green and into the Blue and I don't think they're that bad, after all Into the Green has one thing going for it, namely the spell Shade a 0th level spell that acts a bit like Endure Elements in that it acts as cover for direct sunlight.

A similar spell is available in Redhurst: Academy of Magic, which is 99 percent great instead of being 99 percent crap like Into the Green, which features, among other things, a forest monster that drops from space as a meteorite as the last wave of an invasion force. The rest of the invasion force isn't detailed, there's no forest hooks or any indication they only crash into forests and, really, there's no reason it's in the book at all, other than, "hey, I'm writing a book, so let me insert this monster of mine into it."

This is in addition to splitting forest environments into forests and woods, which may or may not be biologically accurate (I really don't know), but since there's nothing in the book that makes the division cool or mechanically different, it really comes off as a way to waste a bunch of pages.

It's ironic that a book about forests, woods (!), jungles and plains turns out to be nothing but a giant waste of trees, but there you go.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Dollars to doughnuts Dungeonscapes is actually a Rich Baker book? I seem to recall the same confusion over Tome of Battle.

I'm holding out hope that it'll actually be by Tom Baker.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I'm holding out hope that it'll actually be by Tom Baker.

I'd rather see an RPG book by Kenny Baker.

He can call it the R2-D20 system.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

This is just conjecture but it smells more to me like they are getting ready to rerelease the setting with 4th edition in August of next year.

Yeah, right...


I'm looking forward to the Sarlona sourcebook. Not because of any new psionics rules (I use a different rule system anyway), but because the poltical and social landscape of Sarlona will help me flesh out the plots of the Inspired on Khorvaire...

 

[glass]

What's "homebrewn?" I only see this word on ENWorld. Is it an in-joke?

I've wondered about that.


glass.

 

[glass]

It means a campaign setting you've designed yourself, as opposed to a commercial setting like Forgotten Realms or Eberron.

No, that's "homebrewed." "Homebrewn" isn't a word in the English language, but it gets used a lot around here (by native English speakers).

Quite!


glass.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I'm really looking forward to Secrets of Sarlona, but I'm also truthfully hoping that there will be something amazing on the schedule later in the year . . . something as exciting, for me, as Faiths of Eberron.