(Atlas) Love and War - November

JohnNephew

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The Gold ENnie Award-winning sourcebook Dynasties and Demagogues continues to fly off the shelves; the next book in the series, Crime and Punishment, is now at press...and so it's time to announce the third book in this line of D20 player's guides: Love and War, the guide to chivalry and knighthood!

Details are going out to distributors today, and are as follows:

The PENUMBRA Line Presents
LOVE AND WAR
The D20 (v3.5) Player's Sourcebook of Knighthood and Chivalry
by David Chart

Valorous and loyal, serving his god, his lord, and his lady, the knight is the archetypal hero. Not for him cunning words or tricks, nor disguises and ambushes. The knight faces his enemies boldly on the field of combat. The knight's life is one of quests, tournaments, and epic battles recounted in poems for the pleasure of his lady-love.

The classic image of a knight is a paladin in shining plate armor, mounted on a warhorse. But knights can range far from this stereotype; members of any character class, social class, race, or sex can follow the path of chivalry. This sourcebook investigates chivalry in detail, giving knightly options for PCs and ideas for the GMs to use in designing adventures.

Love and War features:

• Discussions of the four knightly virtues - Valor, Loyalty, Piety, and Love - including prestige classes, orders of chivalry, and specialized feats and magic items for each. Become a valorous Dragonbane Knight dedicated to battling monsters, a loyal Knight of the Fountain who serves the king-in-exile, a pious knight of the Sun Goddess, or an amorous knight devotee of the lady Iphigenia, who lived two hundred years ago and was abducted by a powerful outsider.

• Sections on knighthood and race that discuss how you can become a member of the dwarven Granite Wall order that defends a mountain kingdom, the halfling Order of the Sun that spreads the fame of its members’ deeds, or the Order of the Nightingale that protects the elven queen.

• Exceptional examples of knighthood, such as arcane spellcasters, female knights, lover pairs, and dark knights who twist and pervert the chivalric virtues.

• Guidelines for creating your own knightly prestige class and order of chivalry, as well as rules for tournaments, quests, tracking renown, and courtly battles of wit.

Stock Number: AG3226 • ISBN 1-58978-044-2 • SRP $29.95 (US)
Description: 160 pages, hardcover

Shipping to Distributors in November 2003

'The D20 System' is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., used with permission. PENUMBRA is a trademark of Atlas Games. Copr. 2003 Trident, Inc. d/b/a Atlas Games
 

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You know, I only have so much money, guys. I thought, "Man, this is an expensive gaming summer! AU, Penumbra Bestiary, Testament, to say nothing of 3.5e or a myriad of other books. Thankfully, it's almost over." And now this, and Green Ronin's Book of Fiends.

Looking forward to it, John.
 

I love you people!

I've pretty much closed the book on materials for my homebrew world, except for Penumbra products. Are you guys mindreaders?

Any word on the commerce book? I still would love to see one on education/universities.

Keep it coming!
 


Re: I love you people!

Glad to hear everyone's as excited as we are. :)

CaptainCalico said:
Any word on the commerce book?

Only that it's in progress, and we expect to release it sometime in 2004. It will be the next in the series after L&W, I expect.
 

YAY!

I've been holding back the identity of Love & War for what feels like months, and I'm sure I've sounded like a real doofus saying things like, "...and then there's this cool book by Keith Baker called Crime & Punishment and after that there's oh I can't tell you about that because it's still a secret sorry!" So my life just got much easier. :)

The commerce book is coming along very nicely... I'm tapping away full-tilt through the manuscript now, and I'm having more fun with it than is probably good for any of us. I think there is a distinct chance that the book Might Not Suck. :)

cheers,
 
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It would seem that the hardcover format is doing well for Atlas with this third book of Commerce coming along.

How about Coin and Caravan? If you ya use it, how about a free copy?
 

Man, is all this coming out this year? How far away is Crime & Punishment? I'm far more likely to arrest my PCs than to knight them. :D

As for book requests, I'd like to see "Cloak & Dagger" sometime next year. And not that 1980s movie with Dabney Coleman, either!
 
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