Amazon: Last War (Eberron) and Complete Champion

[BryonD]

Fiendish Codex I didn't make this "The Year of the Demon."

The essence of truth.

 

[Sammael]

Planes of the Realms

This book would be bought by a subset of a subset of a subset... FR players/DMs (mostly DMs) who are interested in the planes enough to buy a book on them, and have actually switched to 3.x cosmology.

Instant shelfwarmer.

 

[Pants]

Wow, this thread is full of overreaction.

"ZOMG OEN BOOK ABOUT DROW IS BEING RELEASED NEXT YEAR ALONG WITH A TANGENTIALLY RELATED ADVENTURE!!!11111 YEAR OF TEH DROWZ LOLZ!!111"

Yay for the intraweb.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This book would be bought by a subset of a subset of a subset... FR players/DMs (mostly DMs) who are interested in the planes enough to buy a book on them, and have actually switched to 3.x cosmology.

Instant shelfwarmer.

Maybe. I wouldn't have thought Magic of Faerun and Magic of Eberron to be profitable enterprises, but apparently I was wrong. I suspect WotC could stick enough crunch into it to make it worth picking up for planes fans.

(And I can't believe everyone missed out on WotC's really hot 2008 title, Magic Drow Dragon! )

 

[Pants]

(And I can't believe everyone missed out on WotC's really hot 2008 title, Magic Drow Dragon! )

FYI, it's Drow Dragon Magic.

320 pages of Drow Dragon Magic Goodness. The new Drow Dragon Adept base class. 23 prestige classes about rocking out with magic, drow, dragons, and long hair. Whoooo!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Drow Dragon Magic would just be silly. Take this seriously!

 

[Remathilis]

Hmm... Drow Elf Dragon Adept. ::drools::

Ok, Notice the Trend

Complete Warrior (martial)
Complete Divine (divine)
Complete Arcane (arcane)
Complete Adventurer (expert)

Complete Mage (arcane)
Complete Scoundrel (expert)
Complete Champion (divine, Dragon mag)
Complete ? (martal)

roughly reverse order...

 

[Pants]

Complete ? (martal)

Complete Flipping Out And Killing People

After that:
Complete Stabbing
Complete Bludgeoning
Complete Slashing
Complete Hosier
Complete Drow
Complete Dragon
Complete Drow Dragon
Complete Lumber
Complete Magic Missile

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Complete Combatant? Complete Soldier? Complete Meatshield?

I wonder if we'll see a second Races series after this. Races of Magic, Races of Steel, Races of Adventure, perhaps?

 

[MerricB]

For every Book of Nine Swords, Magic of Incarnum or Tome of Magic, we get Complete Complete, Races Races, Drow and Dragons when so much else of the D&D experience is left to languish in 3.0/unsupported land.

X help Wizards if they try to make books that will sell. Of the books you list there, I bet the second half sell much better than the first half. I love books like Bo9S, MoI and ToM, but they stray significantly from the core of D&D.

Because Wizards make the Complete series and make money from it, they have the freedom to make the more innovative books. (Mind you, there's quite a lot of innovation just in the Complete series, but it's not on the same scale).

Expedition to the Demonweb Pits doesn't really seem to me to be a Drow adventure in any case; more a Outer Planes adventure. What did Wolfgang Baur say about it?

"...unlike Ravenloft, the goal was not to remake Q1. It's a plane-hopping adventure in the Abyss, though, and that's not a bad thing... It covers levels 9 to 12, and has a metric ton of tactical maps, combat breakouts, more than a dozen new monsters. It is filled with creepy evil goodness. " - see here

Cheers!