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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4632198" data-attributes="member: 11821">...and I almost picked it up.  Little did I realize it's not supposed to be released until Tuesday.Anyway, I didn't buy it yet - I had planned to get it from Amazon - but I can run back and grab it if need be <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It looks like a good book, from scanning through it.  Packed full of stuff for $30.  It's a great DM tool, and very, very functional ...  It's very reminiscent of Draconomicon.  Very, very reminiscent.  It starts with a bunch of generalities about "ecology" with discussion of the Shadowfell, the Raven Queen, and Orcus.It's got some skill challenges, including a pretty damn awesome one which treats a zombie horde as a skill challenge.  Which, I think, is a great way to do it.  (There's also a "zombie throng" later on, a level 9 brute which is more or less a big ol' undead swarm of zombies.)Artifacts?  We got some.  Book of Shadows, Sword of Kas, Mask of Kas...  Some of them are really, really cool.Then it picks up and gives a ton of mini-adventures and lairs.  Some of them look really cool, like a high-level romp inside the body of a dead god.Then it moves on to the monsters.  And holycrap, there are a lot of monsters.  I didn't pay all too much attention, but there were some cool bits and pieces.  I noted lots of different skeletons and zombies; some lich variants; and tons of generally creepy creatures.It wraps up with some undead heroes & immortals.  Acereak, with some minions.  Kas himself is here.  Some dude I didn't recognize  who has the artifact Whelm.  Strahd, who has his own special kind of zombie minion.  A lady lich servant of Vecna.  And ... oh, yeah, Vecna himsef.  With a whole level 35 thing going on and an aura that damages living creatures and heals undead.I didn't notice any options for PCs, unless you count a few rituals.  No paragon paths, feats, or anything of that nature.  It's clearly a DM-only book.So yeah - it looks really cool, and I plan on picking it up.  I can try to answer questions by memory, but I haven't bought it yet.  I'd rather get a 30% discount than a 10% one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-O</blockquote>

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