Complete X books, second series

[Matthias]

First there were WOTC's Complete Warrior, Adventurer, Arcane, and Divine (series one).

Then we have Complete Mage, Complete Scoundrel, and Complete Champion.

Will there be a fourth (eighth) Complete book? If so, any idea what it would be called or what it would cover?

I'm not familiar with any of the second-series books but I'm guessing they are meant to cover some of the "crossover" areas between the four archetypes covered by the first series. Mage (Arcane/Divine), Champion (Warrior/Divine) ... what does Scoundrel cover? Warrior/Adventurer? or Adventurer/Arcane?

Anyway, if the second series is doing crossover niches, there'd be 6 combinations to cover: besides the ones already mentioned there's Warrior/Arcane and Adventurer/Divine ... D&D 3.X has touched on arcane/warrior character concepts some (hexblade, warmage) not too much in the divine/adventurer department unless you want the niche to encompass spellthieves and rangers.

So what might be next for a Complete book? WOTC doesn't have another Complete book on its list of upcoming products. Hard information would be great <grin> but at this point we're just doing pure speculation.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

You forgot to include Complete Psionic for series one.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Snarky]
Well, perhaps the poster didn't forget ... and left it off intentionally!
[/Snarky]

In all seriousness, it was part of the original set - I conceed. I personally often don't include it either ... just because psionics is not one of the original "archetypes." {Although I do love and use psionics}

I like your concept of the second round being crossovers. But - I don't really think it is accurate. I didn't really like Scoundrel, so I'm not that well versed with it. Mage isn't a crossover book between divine/arcane, though. Mage - if anything - is a crossover between warlock/sorcerer/wizard (and specialist wizards - including classes like warmage).

 

[Pinotage]

To be fair Scoundrel, Mage and most likely Champion are far more focused on the new base classes introduced in the previous set. There's much more support for Warmages, Scouts, Swashbucklers, Ninjas, Wu Jen, Warlocks, Favored Souls, etc. So I think the focus of the second series has been a little different. I hope Champion covers some of the other bases.

Pinotage

 

[Matthias]

I never use psionics and don't approve of their coexistence with magic so it never even entered into my mind to include Complete Psionic.

I'm in the "psi = sci-fi" camp mostly. One of these days I may run a psionics fantasy campaign but it won't include standard D&D magic.

 

[Bacris]

Don't feel bad about forgetting Complete Psionic - some of us are still trying to forget it

*DISCLAIMER* - it does have SOME decent material... but it's a lot of rubbish, too