Expeditious Retreat Press acquires the Advanced Player's Guide!

[Mouseferatu]

From Joe Browning's blog:

Thought everyone would be interested to know that we've executed a contract with the esteemed Mr. Marmell and we'll be bringing the Advanced Player's Guide to print. We're aiming for an October release. Ari's familiarity and experience with the rules system, along with his clean and evocative style will be an asset for anyone playing 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons. We'd always wanted to work with Ari before, but the opportunity had never arisen, so we're excited to finally see an idea to fruition.

The APG, written primarily by Ari Marmell, brings into Fourth Edition a lot of the options that haven't appeared yet, including variations of the bard, monk, barbarian, and druid classes. These versions of these classes are intended to feel, at least in part, like those of older editions, making campaign conversion easy--and to work with, rather than compete against, versions of these classes that Wizards of the Coast may produce in the future. The APG includes racial options, paragon paths, feats, rituals, and optional rules systems as well.

The Advanced Player's Guide will be available in both softcover book and PDF formats.

 

[Urizen]

Congratulations, Guys.

I hope this does well for ya!

 

[Ghostwind]

Congratulations, Joe. You've got one preorder already.

 

[Knightfall]

While I'm not a 4th Edition fan, I'm glad that Ari gets the chance to have this book published. Way to go, Joe!

 

[jgbrowning]

Thanks for the well wishes guys and thanks Ari, for putting up the press release.

It's an excellent work and I think everyone's going to be pleased by it!

joe b.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Nifty. Does it have some new Warlock pacts as well?

 

[Zaukrie]

When do we get previews? Can't wait to buy this.

 

[jgbrowning]

Nifty. Does it have some new Warlock pacts as well?

No new Warlock stuff, sorry Hal.

When do we get previews? Can't wait to buy this.

I'll be putting up previews at my blog, both content and art, and here at ENworld. Just put up a cover preview of one of our other 4e products, Plague. Scroll a bit down and you'll see cover previews for our 4e Lands of Darkness as well.

http://josephbrowning.livejournal.com/

 

[chaotix42]

I'm eagerly anticipating this release! I love Ari's work, and I want to see how "right" all this new stuff is. WotC's Dragon articles have been chock full of errata-worthy material and I want to see how well a 3rd party can handle the new system.

 

[Mouseferatu]

WotC's Dragon articles have been chock full of errata-worthy material and I want to see how well a 3rd party can handle the new system.

Yikes! No pressure there!