Five Nations thread (merged)

[Timeboxer]

Anyone have the time and inclination to post a Table of Contents?

 

[Bobitron]

Anyone have the time and inclination to post a Table of Contents?

I'll see what I can do.

The book looks awesome. The prestige classes are very good and renew my faith in the entire concept.

 

[Bobitron]

OK, the ToC for the book is far too much typing. Here's an image instead. I hope this doesn't break any rules, if so, please have a moderator remove it.

 

[Timeboxer]

Well, so, what do you think is the coolest thing in the book?

 

[cmanos]

Can I ask where y'all got the book? My sources say it is still unreleased.

 

[Bobitron]

Local gaming store, myself.

Hmmm... coolest thing...

Without having read the entire book, I would have to say either the prestige classes or the little tidbits of information to give you more fluff about the personalities of people from each nation. I love the 'Five Things every _____ Knows', what a great idea.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

So which stats/origin story has the Lord of Blades this time?

 

[MadMaxim]

So which stats/origin story has the Lord of Blades this time?

I believe they stuck with the one in Dungeon (can't remember which issue).

As for the coolest thing so far (I just got the book today and haven't read it all yet), I'd say it's the bone knight. Full divine spell progression except for first level, average BAB, good Fortitude saves, d10 hit die and some seriously wicked special abilities: Bonecrafted armor and bonecrafted weapon. The armor grants immunity to stunning and nonlethal damage, and immunity to critical hits and sneak attack! The armor fuses with the bone knight's flesh at 8th level and renders him immune to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, disease, death effects, fatigue, exhaustion, ability to physical ability scores, ability drain, energy drain and death from massive damage! If this isn't wicked I don't know what is...

 

[MadMaxim]

That's of course just from a game mechanical point of view. The background material looks great and the book just looks excellent overall.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Nope, no discussion of Stormreach.

I doubt there will be (much) discussion of Stormreach in books. From what I read in the D&D Online message boards, the D&D Online people were told that they were given Stormreach as a base of operations for their game along with most of Xendrik(sp?) due to the fact that WotC didn't have much plans for the continent.

The designers of DDO were told they could make up almost whatever they wanted for Stormreach and the continent as they would be the primary "canon" provider of information for the area.