Here's That SCAG Table of Contents!

WotC's Extra Life charity funding campaign hit $50,000 just now, and as promised they added the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide table of contents to the already released preface. The chapters are Welcome to the Realms, The Swords Coast and the North, Races of the Realms, Classes, Backgrounds, and a two-page appendix dealing with using the aforementioned options in Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, and Homemade Worlds.

Find the preface, released yesterday, here. At $60,000, they will release a new cantrip, Greenflame Blade.

Click here for the PDF version
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[Edwin Suijkerbuijk]

Also the monk during the curent session used a ability called radiant bold,and sugested it was from the swordcast monk subclass he has that uis more holy/religous then te basic monk

 

[Irennan]

Well, at minimum, the 37 human deities listed on page 294 of the Player's Handbook will need to be covered; as there are 3 sidebars in the section, at 20 pages, that will come out to approximately 2 deities per page at most. And that number per page could increase dramatically should the human demigods (one of whom, Uthgar, almost certainly would need to be included), the pantheons of the other playable races, or the various deities of more monstrous creatures, are included. The drow, dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, and orc pantheons have a total of 53 deities (and if we include the draconic deities for dragonborn, another 10 or so, although the Realms version of that pantheon is a bit fluid due to setting idiosyncrasies and sources not agreeing with each other); given that some non-human deities would almost certainly have to be included so as not to leave players of the other races out in the cold, it could very easily turn into 4 - 5 deities per page. And if that is the case, we're not going to get much more than very basic info...

There's going to be a lot more than those listed in the PHB, as the book is going to offer a ''tremendous wealth'' of patrons, to quote Steve Kenson. So, I'm expecting a 4e FRCS-style approach: some essential ''stats'' (like portfolio, power level, domains, symbol, allegiances perhaps) and a very small blurb saying what the god is about and a line or two to update their recent history to include what the Sundering did to the god. So yeah, IMO we'll get something like 5 gods per page.

 

[SkidAce]

Also the monk during the curent session used a ability called radiant bold,and sugested it was from the swordcast monk subclass he has that uis more holy/religous then te basic monk

What monk? I don't understand what you are referencing.

 

[gyor]

Sounds like the Monk got the Sacred Fist subclass updated, awesome.

 

[gyor]

So far is sounds like:

Rogues: Mastermind & Swashbuckler
Paladin: Oath of the Crown
Monk: Sacred Fist
Fighter: Purple Dragon Knight (could be warlordish)
Wizard: Bladesinger
Bard: ???
Barbarian: New Totems
Ranger: Sadly Nothing
Sorceror: either Storm or Favoured Soul
Cleric: ???
Warlock: Undying Patron

Tieflings: Variants/Aasmir?
Dwarves: Dark Dwarves
Elves: Rare subraces
Half Elves: variants
Gnomes: Deep
Dragonborn: ???
Half Orc: ???
Halfling: Ghostwise
Human: ???

 

[Ainulindalion]

I find myself wondering if Wizards will make this retroactively legal for all Story Origins in Adventurers' League, since they kinda want to sell books, or just Season 3 (or 4), or just Season 3 (or 4) going forward.

Not that AL is the be all and end all of people buying product, but it's why I kinda doubt any of the published adventure will stop being legal for play.

 

[the Jester]

God damn it, WotC.

Here's hoping there are no generic options for pcs shoved into an FR-heavy book. I want a book of generic options, but have no interest in paying for 100 pages of FR lore. I really hope that the various pc options in there are Realms-specific, but some of the assumed subclasses listed above (sacred fist!) make me think otherwise.

 

[Edwin Suijkerbuijk]

What monk? I don't understand what you are referencing.

Well this whole extra life thing is about the 48 hour charity stream, during part of the stream there was a player playing a monk.
http://www.twitch.tv/wotc_dnd

 

[Parmandur]

God damn it, WotC.



Here's hoping there are no generic options for pcs shoved into an FR-heavy book. I want a book of generic options, but have no interest in paying for 100 pages of FR lore. I really hope that the various pc options in there are Realms-specific, but some of the assumed subclasses listed above (sacred fist!) make me think otherwise.

...That's exactly what they have done? Generic splat, with some specificity.

 

[the Jester]

...That's exactly what they have done? Generic splat, with some specificity.

I think you're right but am holding out hope that they will avoid it (by which I mean I am hoping that, for example, the subclasses are actually all tied into the Realms).

This reminds me of the 3e Monsters of Faerun book, which appropriated a whole bunch of previously generic, non-Realms monsters. The problem was that 2/3 of the book was stuff that was almost useless outside of an FR campaign, so that killed my urge to buy it. Same thing is happening here. I am the target audience for generic splat material, but man, I am not going to buy a book if 75% of it is Realms-specific.