Got Ghostwalk!

[Gez]

Excuse me for sounding so terribly new, but could someone point me in the direction of the posted table of contents?

I can't find it in the news archives

On the news page, for the 27th. Link.

Introduction
* The Ghostwalk
* The City of Manifest
* The Ghostwalk Campaign
* To Live and Die and Live in Manifest

Chapter 1: All About Ghosts
* Rules for Ghosts
* Souls and Ghosts
* Ghost Traits
* Physical Death and Ghosts
* The Faces of Death
* Adventuring and Ghost Levels
* Possession
* Ghost Powers
* New Classes
* * Eidolon
* * Eidolancer
* * Arboreal Guardian
* * Bone Collector
* * Deathwarden Chanter
* * Ghost Slayer
* Skills
* Feats
* Changes to the Rules
* Equipment
* New Magic
* * Spell Descriptions
* * Magic Items

Chapter 2: The City of Manifiest
* The History of Manifest
* Magic in Manifest
* Gods of Manifest
* * Aluvan
* * Chaniud
* * Dracanish
* * Durann
* * Eanius
* * Galaedros
* * Khostren
* * Messek
* * Orcus
* * Phaant
* * Soggelos
* * Tephaneron
* * Wyst
* The Living and the Dead
* Races in Manifest
* Adventures in Manifest
* The City
* * The Portal Ward
* * The Tombyards
* * Phantom Hill
* * Merchant Ward
* * Forestview
* City Government and Laws
* * Crime and Punishment
* Other Groups and Organizations
* * Guild of Morticians
* * Yisa-Khardomas
* * The Arboreal Guardians
* * The Knights of the Quiet
* * Piran Sedestadel
* * The Necromacers of Night Abbey
* * The Golden
* * The Mercantile League
* The Undercity
* * The Catacombs
* * The Ghostwalk
* * Creatures of the Undercity
* The Spirit Wood
* * The Hidden Palace Glen
* * The Monastery of Kreel
* * Howling Vale

Chapter 3: The Ghostwalk Campaign
* Starting a Ghostwalk Campaign
* * Thematic Campaigns in Manifest
* * PCs in Manifest
* Adventures
* * The Undercity
* * The Enemies of Manifest
* * The Organizations
* * Monsters
* * Yuan-Ti
* * Undead
* Beyond the Vale
* * The True Afterlife
* * The Land of the Dead
* * * The Soulwaters
* * * The Wandering Isles
* * * The Veil Island
* * * Deeran's House
* * * The Isle of the Five
* * * Fortress of Trun
* Inserting Manifest into an Existing Campaign

Chapter 4: Countries
* Bazareene
* Hikirian Peninsula
* Salkiria
* Sura-Khiri
* The Demiplane Known as Coil
* Terrepek
* Thurkasia
* Xaphan
Chapter 5: Monsters
* Artaaglith (Demon)
* Bonesinger (Template)
* Dread Ram
* Ectoplasmic Vermin
* Fire Spectre
* Ghost (Template)
* Ghosteater
* Monstrous Vampire (Template)
* Mumia (Template)
* Necroplasm
* Spectral Steed
* Spirit Tree
* Undead Martyr
* Yuan-Ti (Template)

Chapter 6: Adventures
*Touch and Go (1st level characters)
* For Absent Friends (4th level characters)
* Kinship of Vermin (5th level characters)
* The Devil's Cellar (6th level characters)
* Lair of the Crippled One (7th level characters)
* Lair of the Eyeless Lady (9th level characters)
* Morbid Maze (12th level characters)

Appendix: Glossary

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I also have the Star Wars Hero's Guide to read.

You have the Hero's Guide!!! Forget Ghostwalk...need...Hero's Guide...info...

 

[Nightfall]

Sorry I much prefer Ghostwalk since it's got Orcus info.

 

[Welverin]

I want info on both!

Get to reading Morrus, forget about that silly news thing you do!

 

[Gez]

A tidbit of info there (Sean & Monte interviewabout Ghostwalk -- we learn the why of the name).

This thread on Monte's boards may bring more infos as well.

 

[Olive]

A tidbit of info there (Sean & Monte interviewabout Ghostwalk -- we learn the why of the name).

This interview actually made me want to buy the book, and I haven't been too fussed until now (the non-interested bit also came from a few things that SKR said on his site about kick-ass monks... the phrase 'kick ass' always makes me uninterested...)

I'll have to have a flick through in the local game shop...

 

[Scion of Vyshaan]

Personally, I was going to completely look over this book until they mentioned the bit about people taking bodies of the dead there, and then the info about the mortician's guild. Did that remind anybody else about certain issues of Sandman?

 

[Nightfall]

All I care about is MORE Orcus!

 

[Daredevill]

I'm with ya Nightfall. I was hoping my FLGS had Ghostwalk in when I went there yesterday, but no such luck.

I picked up the BoVD instead when I saw the picture of Orcus.

I just couldn't resist.

 

[EricNoah]

I too got a comp copy and have been looking it over.

Overall, while certainly a very solid product, I am finding that it's not tripping my trigger. Here are some of my "issues" with it:

1) Not 3.5-ready. I recall that this book was "done" quite a while ago and has kind of been in the wings waiting for its release, and it shows in things like monster stats.
2) "Ghosts are not ghosts." They have to kind of totally re-work some issues about how death works, and as such the ghost template from the MM is quite different from the ghost of Ghostwalk.
3) The adventures don't seem especially inspired, at least some of them. There seem to be adventures that aren't especially "ghostly" and don't really feature special situations/rules from this book much.
4) Lots of repeated material, particularly from the splatbooks and FR stuff. Feats, spells and magic items were the main repeats. Some people don't find that a problem or find that a benefit.
5) Some of the magic items don't seem especially inspired.
6) There's a chapter that describes the "countries" in the viscinity but (unless I missed it) there's no map. There are some maps of certain regions, and there is a map of the city of Manifest.
7) For some reason the subject matter overall just didn't seem very appealing to me personally. The mechanics of death and ectoplasm and stuff like that just didn't do it for me. It was all a little too scientific, not mystical enough.

I wouldn't let any of these points disuade anyone from taking a look at the product, but for me it would be a "maybe" purchase rather than a "must have."