Necro is IN! Planned Products

[Voss]

Can some change the thread title please? I realize that people care about this, but I really thought someone caught an announcement of a WotC product with a Necromancer class.

 

[wykthor]

2. Advanced Player's Guide: To be designed in part by industry insider Ari Marmell, if they left classes and races out, we put them back in (Of course, we can't say if bards or druids or barbarians or gnomes or half-orc are or arent in 4th edition, but we know some stuff has been cut, and whatever is missing we will create for you with work by respected designer Ari Marmell.)!

Okay, I *HAVE* to ask this . Is there a chance Ari could include a no-wotc-but similar-enough 4E Shadowcaster version?

 

[edemaitre]

Necromancer is in for D&D4e!

I'm already looking forward to Tome of Horrors and the Advanced Player's Guide! "Fourth Edition rules, First Edition flavor," here we come!

 

[tenkar]

Can some change the thread title please? I realize that people care about this, but I really thought someone caught an announcement of a WotC product with a Necromancer class.

And what would you change it to? Heh. I can see the confusion for some, but for many Necro is a publisher first... Everquest Class second

To me at least

 

[Set]

I also got my hopes up seeing the word Necromancer, since it's one of my favorite class types. But hey, the Advanced Players book might in fact have something on that sort of thing!

It's like a niche all it's own, the classes based on having (or placing during combat) multiple minions, such as Necromancers, Summoning-based characters, dudes with Leadership, Rebuke-Clerics with plant/construct/ooze/fire creature/whatever minions, etc.

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

I'd be really surprised if WOTC was upset by the Advanced Player's Guide. It would actually help fill in a gap for them, because the people who absolutely refuse to switch to 4e unless they can recreate their half-orc barbarian would have a stopgap solution until the "official" WOTC material comes out months or years down the line.

In the longer term, if Necro is "putting the 1e in 4e," they'll probably be doing different things with the classes and races anyway. For example, the 4e druid (according to R&C) will be primarily a shapeshifter, while I'm guessing Orcus' will be more of the jack-of-all-trades nature-priest we know and love from 3e. They can even "adjust" the existing PHB classes if they want: more illusion/enchantment/necromancy spells for wizards, say, or "grittier" powers for fighters, or hobbit-style halflings.

 

[Reaper Steve]

Necro upped the bar for third party products years ago. They and a few others have been publishing consistently quality products for a few years now.

My comment was not meant to imply that Necro's past products weren't up to par on quality. I do recognize them as a top third party publisher.

Rather, my comment was in approval of the phased OGL that is designed limit and delay substandard stuff from appearing in the early days of 4E.

 

[Almacov]

I'm most definitely interested in this Marmellized 4th edition content.
Heroes of Horror, Tome of Magic, and Complete Mage were in my top five favourite WotC released books for 3.5.
I look forward to this new Tome of Horrors too. The first one had me at "Adherer".

(Oh, I must second wykthor's Shadowcaster question. My 3.5e homebrew features them pretty prominently. )

 

[JoeGKushner]

AFAIC, this is the best 4e news I've heard thus far.

 

[Wyrmshadows]

We'll see. You might be right. I said this was a gamble.

Come on 6s!!!!!

Good luck man.

With the coming of 4e, due to what I have been hearing until the recent Mearls' interview regarding non-combat related RPing, I have much more fallen into line with the 4e doubters. I am looking forward to folks like you, Paizo, Green Ronin, Mongoose, Paradigm and others producing innovative products for 4e that will cater to a variety of gaming styles.

I'm not exactly a 1e style DM (well maybe if storytelling in the old DL1-14 mode is a 1e DM) but I share more stylistically with 1e and 2e than I do with a lot of 3e and with most of what I have heard about 4e in regards to mechanics if not fluff.

Can't wait to see what you come up with.



Wyrmshadows