I've got the D&D Spell Compendium- Any questions?

[Blaque]

Well, just got it yesterday, and have also been looking through it. I've mainly stuck with the druid spells, since that's what i"m playing atm, but here are soem things I thought were pretty neat, and some notes on comments.

- First off, despite what other shave said, splinterbolt only crits with a x2, and there's no extra damage in forests.

- THere are some pretty damned cool flavorful spells about I think. I am a fan of Wind to Back and Earth Womb myself, especially since I can see messing wiht other druids about. Being able to run and hide is helpful.

- I have only found one major typo, in that in one spell block (can't remember the spell off the top of my head), they don't list what classes get it. Its prolly in the spell lists by class though, but still was weird.

- Strangely, while they give suggestions in the Introduciton on how to expand the spell lists for some prestige classes, and the Healer, Warmage, Wu Jen, Shugenja, and Spellthief even, they seem to have forgotten to say what things the Hexblade could of gotten. THen again, I think we can expect ot see on the Wizards forums what folks think should be up there eventualy.

- No index. Which I'm finding would help. A lot. But the website has one too, so no biggie.

- Seeing as I don't own a single book they site on the list at the back, nor a single issue of Dragon, this is going ot help me a lot unti lI might someday get anything from this. Mainly 'cause I'm a damned noob, and have my WoD and Exalted to keep up on too.

SO yeah. Kinda pricy, but that's my RPG purchase of the month. I'll get WoD: Chicago for x-mas or something. I got time.

And stuff. Nyarr.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

- First off, despite what other shave said, splinterbolt only crits with a x2, and there's no extra damage in forests.

It crit's on an 18-20, but there's no mention of a x3 crit multiplier.

Ken

 

[mara]

Hello 3.0 Spell Power. Let me guess Spikes is in there unmodified? Quill blast is in there unmodified? Umm biased?

Quill Blast has been changed. The number of quills per size category is now a fixed number, with the highest being 12 for huge+ creatures, and the penalty to attack rolls, saves, and checks is noncumulative. Spikes no longer stacks with other crit range enhancers like Improved Critical.

-Mara

 

[MerricB]

- No index. Which I'm finding would help. A lot. But the website has one too, so no biggie.

Oh well, for a book that is an alphabetical listing of spells, an Index isn't really that great. (It's well worth noting references on your character sheet, though).

Cheers!

 

[rvalle]

Do others that placed an order from Amazon still have it listed as being sent out Dec 24th? I've emailed them to ask what is up with that.

rv

 

[Pants]

Do others that placed an order from Amazon still have it listed as being sent out Dec 24th? I've emailed them to ask what is up with that.

rv

Amazon and other retailers usually get the books in much later than the release dates.

 

[rvalle]

Amazon and other retailers usually get the books in much later than the release dates.

Really? Hmmm, I saw the book in our local game store. Figured Amazon should have it about the same time.

 

[Pants]

Really? Hmmm, I saw the book in our local game store. Figured Amazon should have it about the same time.

They're usually about 3 weeks late in getting stuff.
Has something to do with distributors and that kind of stuff.

 

[Blaque]

I get the feeling Amazon doesn't try as hard with not-major releases either. Your big novels like Michael Chriton, or Steven King will ge their books on the release day. Periperhal stuff like our geek-books take forever.

The same actually goes with DVDs compared to RPG books i know too. I tend to be able to get my anime before my books

Stuff.

 

[Laman Stahros]

Rumour (we all know how reliable that is) was that Amazon gets the books from WotC later to keep the FLGSs from being totally undercut. I know that before 3.5 came out, Amazon was getting them at the same time as the FLGSs.