Complete Arcane: Any Info? Any Guesses?

[AFGNCAAP]

Other than the blurb provided on the product listing for this book, is there any info as to what may be in its pages floating around out on the Web?

With the pattern of previous books, the only thing that I can guess is that one of the new base classes will be the Wu Jen (or a variation thereof; probably based off of the 4 Western elements rather than the 5 Eastern-element version in OA), since there's at least been 1 OA-themed/based class per book. (On a related note, does that mean that a Ninja base class may appear in Complete Adventurer?)

 

[Knight Otu]

From the Ask Rich Baker thread:

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]Arcane has the warlock, warmage, and wu jen.
Adventurer has the spell thief (and a couple of others I don't know if I can tell you about yet).

The warlock is a "spellcasting" character that works on spell-like abilities. He's even more specialized/focused than the sorcerer, but there's basically no limit to the number of times per day he can do his thing. (Basically, we have a notion here in R&D that your character is going to get 10-20 actions per day, so your 21st, 22nd, etc., spell memorized just doesn't matter very much for combat power. The warlock doesn't really have infinite spells compared to the wizard because they both get the same number of actions per day of adventuring.) Oh, and the warlock just oozes spawn-of-the-dark-powers flavor. It's a lot of fun.[/font]

There was also a thread with information gleaned from the RPGA cards, but I'm not sure where it is now.

 

[Thanee]

It'll surely have some upgraded or reprinted feats, like Arcane Preparation, or Energy Affinity (maybe Substitution, but I'd guess they pick the newer one), Persistent Spell, Sculpt Spell, etc. Stuff like that, plus a few new ones. And Spells from Tome & Blood. Energy Buffer, Energy Immunity, Familiar spells, etc.

I'm curious in what form they'll upgrade the Elemental Savant, since they will probably have to add some new abilities, once they have taken away Elemental Power and Penetration and replaced it with the new caster level increasing Elemental Power.

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Thanee