Necromancer's Eldritch Sorcery

[JoeBlank]

Wondering if anyone has any advance knowledge on Necromancer's Eldritch Sorcery. Thier website and messageboards indicate it will be out soon, possibly even June 27.

http://www.necromancergames.com/upcoming.html

A ton of spells, many of them updating spells from previous editions. I could get very excited about this, but have seen little or no buzz.

 

[TerraDave]

Nice title...though the cover doesn't quite live up to its namesake

 

[JoeBlank]

Guess that answers my question, no one knows anything about the book.

 

[Crothian]

there was a little talk about it in the publishers forum but nothing noteworthy

 

[PatrickLawinger]

Eldtritch Sorcery

there was a little talk about it in the publishers forum but nothing noteworthy

I'll try to talk more about it on the Necromancer Games forums next week. Was hoping to get some stuff up this week but personal life has taken a front seat lately. The EZboards fiasco hasn't helped either, anything we did have up has disappeared.

Basically, this is a book of spells. We do have some feats in it (maybe 4-5 pages) but the rest is spells. Close to 500 with some spells having several "flavors."

We understand that people aren't going to use ALL of the spells in the book, but whatever your campaign style, there are spells here for you. All out destruction? Got ya covered. Politics and Intrigue? Yup. Travel and exploration? Yes. If you are looking for revisions of spells from older editions, Scott Greene covered those too. Now, not all of those spells have the same names, but you should be able to find something you like.

When designing the book I deliberately went for a very wide range of spells. Yes, you are going to find a spell or two that you won't want to use in YOUR campaign, but you can be sure that some of your favorites are certain to be on a list that someone else won't use.

If you are looking for prestige classes, this is not a book for you. There are exactly 0 prestige classes in the book. I don't have anything against PrC's, but I think PrC's should be more campaign specific and more "generic" PrC's can be found just about everywhere.

Anyway, I have an unhappy 2-year-old that wants to go back outside so I guess it is back into the hot weather for me. I'll try to post more info, and possibly some sample spells, on our boards next week (possibly even tomorrow, who knows).

Patrick

 

[PatrickLawinger]

ES, again

Just looked at the blurb the first poster linked to. That is old advertising info, we didn't include the PrC guidelines, or any new magic items. We decided to focus on just spells for this one. I'll see if I can get Greenpiece to post the "new" back cover information.

Patrick

 

[Grazzt]

Nice title...though the cover doesn't quite live up to its namesake

Ah- but there is a pic inside the book, like page 19 (or pretty close) that does...

 

[philreed]

Just looked at the blurb the first poster linked to. That is old advertising info, we didn't include the PrC guidelines, or any new magic items. We decided to focus on just spells for this one. I'll see if I can get Greenpiece to post the "new" back cover information.

The book's nothing but spells, then?

 

[twofalls]

The book's nothing but spells, then?

You ARE joking.... right? :\

 

[philreed]

You ARE joking.... right? :\

Not at all. These points in the product description interested me enough that I had planned to buy the book.


Guidelines are provided for creating campaign-specific arcane or divine prestige classes.

Supplies new magic items, relics, and artifacts for characters to seek out or for DMs to build adventures around.

Supplies new magic items and artifacts that can be used as a source for a DM to construct an entire campaign.


I mean, more spells is nice and all but the above three points were what I was most interested in.


EDIT: Please note that I am still interested in the book. It's just that if it's all spells then it moves from the "buy on release!" list to my "look at when I'm in the store" list.