Dragon Compendium Table of Contents

[MadMaxim]

I'm most likely going to buy it, since I've never subscribed to Dragon but read a lot of them at the local library. So it all looks good to me from over here

 

[scourger]

I'll look for this, now. I don't subscribe to Dragon and only occasionally buy an issue on the stands. But one of the things that stayed in my collection after a recent culling was Best of Dragon IV. So, this is right up my alley. I'm especially interested in: Jester, Bledded of Gruumsh, Runes, Runestones, and Good Hits & Bad Misses. That was just from the first reading. Now, I'm looking forward to all the Appendices and many of the Tables as well.

Now, if they would do similar things with Dungeon; at least Omega World as a booklet...

 

[Nellisir]

That's correct, although it's the only item in the book that's open.

Did someone fix the Section 15 this time? (and by "fix", I mean include).

Cheers,
Nell.

Who's buying it.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Now, if they would do similar things with Dungeon; at least Omega World as a booklet...

Add Iron Lords of Jupiter to that list, and I'm right there with you. There really should be a collection of all the Polyhedron minigames, with a few new ones included.

 

[Psion]

Sir, I accept your challenge!

My translator may be faulty but I'm getting a message to the effect of "look at Lion's Den Press products in the near future for witches."

 

[BOZ]

The Sunset World articles were in #150, so that's on the CD. Nearly all of the monsters from the "Dragon's Bestiary" in that issue were updated to 3.5E in Lords of Madness, so there's no rules conversion needed once you have that book.

we have the other Illithidae on the Creature Catalog. although, they do not match well with the ones in Lords of Madness...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

And......preorder placed.

 

[Mouseferatu]

My translator may be faulty but I'm getting a message to the effect of "look at Lion's Den Press products in the near future for witches."

That's certainly one possible interpretation...

 

[JoeGKushner]

I'll look for this, now. I don't subscribe to Dragon and only occasionally buy an issue on the stands. But one of the things that stayed in my collection after a recent culling was Best of Dragon IV. So, this is right up my alley. I'm especially interested in: Jester, Bledded of Gruumsh, Runes, Runestones, and Good Hits & Bad Misses. That was just from the first reading. Now, I'm looking forward to all the Appendices and many of the Tables as well.

Now, if they would do similar things with Dungeon; at least Omega World as a booklet...

I can agree with the whole Omega World thing. As others have said, collect several of the d20 Modern settings. Give us poor readers a chance to get away from gnoll pimps. (Urban Arcane... what were they thinking....)

 

[Hussar]

One thing that does disappoint me in this ToC is the inclusion of so much material from very recent Dragon Magazines. 2 of the 5 new races were released in the last year - the Diabolus and the Lupin; in the PrC section, the Force Missile Mage and the Shaper of Form are both from the past year and the Osteomancer is from the year before that.

Those stand out to me anyway. Out of 300+ issues, I'm very surprised that almost half the new races and a third of the PrC's didn't need to be updated to 3.5, they were already 3.5 when released. Considering this is a book that's supposed to "bring back the best of the past, fully updated for 3.5", using articles from the past year seems a tad, well, lazy.

I was really looking forward to this book, but, seeing the ToC, I'm not so sure. I think I'll wait until I see some reviews and maybe actually be able to peruse the book on the shelf before ponying up the dough. I know, I know, don't judge the book by the Table of Contents and all that, but I have to admit that I'm disappointed to see so many elements from the past twelve months make it into this book.