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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8592623" data-attributes="member: 8863">One more note on the Wizard Compendium; it was released right around TSR's bankruptcy. I remember the first volume was released in the fall of 1996, and I picked it up right away. The next volume was supposed to have been something like February 1997, but it never showed up. I kept looking for it in the bookstores, and there was this local comics shop that would order RPG stuff from one of the distributors (the Armory maybe? I don't remember). But there was no word on it at all until TSR's bankruptcy was announced around April. Luckily, WotC saw the the value in these books, and finished off the set and went on to the priest spells. There were definite cost cutting changes in them though. The first volume had gold lettering on the spine, but the later ones went with a more generic yellow. There was also a simple border in gold ink at the top and bottom of the pages in the first volume like had been done with the Encyclopedia Magica, but the other three volumes switched to black. OTOH, the second and third volumes provided mini indexes which are more useful to the DM overall.</blockquote>