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

[Dannyalcatraz]

I just got mine last week, and I'm flipping through it, and I'm finding a couple of outright errors.

Unless it has been renamed, or printed out of proper order, Fell Animate from Libris Mortis is not in it! OK, maybe they felt the spell was too powerful- but they should have either listed eliminated spells, or at least mentioned that certain spells were edited out. As it is, it can only be interpreted as an error.

At this point, I have also found at least one spell, Sarcophagus of Stone, that does not have all of its info listed in its stat block: level, components, duration, area, range or casting time are all absent. Since its not a version of another, lesser spell, it should have all of that.

I'm not going to say this makes the Spell Compendium not worth the money, but c'mon!

 

[fafhrd]

Isn't fell animate a feat?

It's true that a few spells are missing info though.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I don't have the book & someone told me it was a spell, so I was hoping it was in there.

If it is a Feat, then my bad.

If not...GRRRR!

 

[LightPhoenix]

And now I have to buy it anyway just to play with the official fix to the spells within!? Are you kidding me!? That should be for free!

What a sneaky, underhanded trick for WotC to pull...

There are no WotC ninja pirate nazis coming to your house to make you buy the book.

Vote with your wallet.

 

[MerricB]

I just got mine last week, and I'm flipping through it, and I'm finding a couple of outright errors.

Unless it has been renamed, or printed out of proper order, Fell Animate from Libris Mortis is not in it! OK, maybe they felt the spell was too powerful- but they should have either listed eliminated spells, or at least mentioned that certain spells were edited out. As it is, it can only be interpreted as an error.

I'm trying to work this one out. The Spell Compendium is a gathering together of 1,000 spells, not of every spell ever printed (not even in the listed sources). Is there somewhere that mentions Fell Animate (or another spell) is in the book and the listing isn't there? Or are you just disappointed because one of your favourite spells didn't make it in? - which is not an error.

Cheers!

 

[Caliban]

I don't have the book & someone told me it was a spell, so I was hoping it was in there.

If it is a Feat, then my bad.

If not...GRRRR!

Fell animate is a feat from Libris Mortis, not a spell.

The "Sarcophagus of Stone" spell definitely looks like a mistake. It's missing the Level, Components, Casting Time, Range, and Targets entries in the stat block.
-- The original spell can be found in Dragon #313, in the article "Elder Serpents of Set" by Thomas M. Costa


And the Spell Compendium doesn't include spells from the "Races of" or "Heroes of" books (unless they were reprinted in a source that they did use).

The list of sources they compiled the spells from (as listed on page 285 of the Spell Compendium):

Complete Adventurer
Complete Arcane
Complete Divine
Complete Warrior
Draconomicon
Libris Mortis
Magic of Faerun
Manual of the Planes
Miniatures Handbook
Player's Guide to Faerun
Savage Species
Underdark
various web articles published on www.wizards.com/dnd
various articles published in Dragon Magazine.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm trying to work this one out. The Spell Compendium is a gathering together of 1,000 spells, not of every spell ever printed (not even in the listed sources). Is there somewhere that mentions Fell Animate (or another spell) is in the book and the listing isn't there? Or are you just disappointed because one of your favourite spells didn't make it in? - which is not an error.

1) I was hoping not to have to buy Libris Mortis, and was under the impression that Fell Animate was a spell- which would have made it eligible for the Compendium. As was pointed out, it is a Feat. My bad.

2) Its the Spell Compendium. Compendium (noun): a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.

Some of the advertising in the stores implied that it was a true and complete compendium- which is to say that spells were not edited from its content.

However, the book itself and OTHER ads are clear that it is just a sampling of the spells. This is dissapointing.

 

[Glyfair]

2) Its the Spell Compendium. Compendium (noun): a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.

Of course, your argument depends on what definition you use of "comprehensive." One that applies "So large in scope or content as to include much."