Celestial Codex Series?

Would you be interested in a Celestial Codex Series from WotC?

  • Yes

    Votes: 130 55.3%
  • No

    Votes: 74 31.5%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 31 13.2%

I would give it a good long look and probably buy it, especially if the celestials were portrayed as tough, aggressive, but fair. Who's the goodiest do gooder in a land of goody goody two-shoes would not interest me at all.

And for th record, i thought the fiendish codexes were a waste of good production slots.
 

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For me The Book of Exalted Deeds already fills the need.

It was 3.5 so doesn't need updating like the stats in BoVD did.

New types of celestials, check.
Celestial lords, check.
New spells and feats, check.
Celestial politics, check.
Prestige Classes, check.

At this point a couple Dragon articles would flesh out missing elements.
 


Klaus said:
Heavens, yeah!

I was just about to type "Hell yeah!" when I saw Klaus's far more appropriate response. :D

Honestly, I'd buy just about any <Exemplar Outsider Race> Codex book, with the exception of the formians. I've never been much of a fan of them.
 

So long as the book or books didn't take pointers on morality from the BoED.

That said, there's plenty of ground to cover. The Eladrin and Guardinals could use more detailed material on their society and history, and an exploration of their goals in the multiverse at large. The celestials as a whole should be presented as a complex, sometimes fractured group, not a monolithic Good, but at the same time the different way they handle their own divide along the Chaos/Law axis versus how the fiends do so is rather stark and important. Now how the Archons handle that w/ respect to Asuras, that's another topic that's full of fun.

And having just mentioned them, I hate to say it but the Archons have been done to death, because of all the celestials they tend to be used the most, perhaps because paladins are LG and because of that from time to times there's a wierd notion that pops up of LG as the goodest good there is.

A book on Aasimon (angels) would be interesting, especially because they're not beings of Good first and foremost, rather they're beings who express the will of their deific patrons primarily, with good oftentimes being part of that, but not always, and it can get ugly if you're on the wrong side of a deity. An exploration of how they vary by what god they serve, what pantheon they serve, etc would be interesting, as well as how aasimon beholden to different gods interact, especially when those gods stand opposed to one another or as rivals for worshippers.
 

I voted yes.

I think they could be covered in one book though. Skip the planar tour and just have a chapter on each type, Unique Celestials, relations with the gods, and views of the Bloodwar.

I don't think Slaad could support a single book, nor could Modrons or Inevitables, but a series of articles in Dragon could cover them, more than Ecology of X, or a book splitting Lawful and Chaotic outsiders.
 

Maybe, but you'd need to put some stuff in there about the conflct between good, and also try to make visiting the upper planes interesting from an adventure standpoint, like the Abyss is. That, to me, would be the hardest part to make interesting.

Assuming that part gets cut or edited down, you could get a lot more fluff in the book about the differeing forces of good, and how they interact.
 

as you probably expected, i voted yes. ;)

rather than enemies, such a book would be presenting allies, and ways that celestials can help PCs if they serve goodness well. :)

and... enemies for PCs who aren't so nice. ;)
 

I don't think you could justify (from a sales point of view) three Celestial Codices, simply because I don't think they see as much use as the fiends do, but certainly one would be nice.

Personally, I'd also like books about Chaos and Law along the lines of the BoED and BoVD.
 

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