Dragon Compendium Volume 2

[Nightfall]

Joe,

Maybe so. But I still think you finding about your Teddy might have pushed you along.

 

[Ant]

I loved the first Dragon Compendium despite some of the flaws (all of which have already been gone over many times).

I'd buy the second one in an Immediate Action.

 

[Shadeydm]

An emphasis on pre 3E material would ensure that I buy it asap.

 

[Xyanthon]

I'd like to see some more of the classic (from the 1st 150 or so) material updated in the second one.

 

[Nightfall]

Well glad to see people also want pre-3rd edition material too.

But I still think Joe's teddy is sending him bad thoughts.

 

[Nikosandros]

Indeed. And yet some of the material included that weird concept given class by Mike Mearls... the Mounteback or something? Updating old edition stuff to newer edition when it wasn't even a class proper? :\ Strange choices there man. Strange choices.

What surprised me even more was that classes like the mountebank didn't even keep the original concept as it was presented by Gary Gygax in Dragon, but just used the name...

 

[Nightfall]

Funny I thought Death Master was pretty darn close to my recollection of Orcus' priests.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Funny I thought Death Master was pretty darn close to my recollection of Orcus' priests.

A 13 level NPC class that turned into a lich at level 13?


That would be impossible these days as everything must be balanced.

Thinking about it, it's messed up that the only NPC classes are actually WEAKER than the core classes. Certainly well against the old standards of highly specialized forces that were meant for NPCs to take on groups of PCs.

 

[MKMcArtor]

What? WotC has not given the okay on an Age of Worms collection, most likely because of its persistant use of intellectual property and copyrighted characters.

That has nothing to do with it. They own it all, why would they care if it uses their IP?

As far as I know any Dragon Compendium 2 is still in the works and Paizo has not pitched it at all.

That is incorrect. We pitched it in 2005. We pitched it again early in 2006.

Go ahead and write WotC requesting DCII, but save the innuendo for another time. Saying that WotC is taking its time on granting permission is a jab that is not needed.

Wizards of the Coast is taking its time granting permission for us to do the DCII. We have asked multiple times. That isn't a jab; it's information Erik Mona has stated multiple times.

 

[Greg K]

I asked Lisa Stevens of Paizo about a Dragon Magazine Compendium volume 2 while at Gen Con SoCal. She also said that Paizo has asked for permission multiple times.

I also asked her about Paizo publishing compendiums for both the Demonicon and Core Beliefs. The likelihood did not sound good for either.