New 'In The Works'

[Olive]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20040314a

Maybe it's just little ol'non-psionics using me, but that has to have been the least interesting ITW for about a year!

All the minis, bar one we've seen before on the WotC site, and the Complete Divine preview wasn't worth the download time!

Bummer...

Oh yeah, on my screen the blurb for CD was cut off, but I could cut and paste the whole thing, so I'll reprint it here:

Legends tell of brave champions whose unwavering faith earned them the favor of the gods. Empowered by the might and magic of their deity, these devoted characters transcend the realm of mere heroes.

This supplement for the D&D game provides everything you need to create divinely inspired characters of any class. Along with new base classes, prestige classes, feats, spells, magic items, and relics, Complete Divine also provides guidelines for incorporating religion -- from mysterious cults to powerful theocracies -- into your campaign.

The guidelines might be interesting, and it will be cool if they adapt the relic stuff from BoED so it's not all 'good'. Everyone deserves relics and 'saints' (or whatever you'd call a non-good divine servant typoe guy), not just the good guys.

 

[Mystery Man]

"Somebody has a case of the Mondays..."

 

[Olive]

bueller? bueller?

 

[Hardhead]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20040314a

Maybe it's just little ol'non-psionics using me, but that has to have been the least interesting ITW for about a year!

Well, there wasn't much for us psionic fans either, except fluff. The only interesting part was where they said "Likewise, you might decide that next randomly rolled barbarian is instead a psychic warrior or a soulknife." This pretty much confirms the fact that Soulknives are the fourth base class, as a rougish counterpart to the fighterish psychic warrior (and the pure caster Wilder and Psion).

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I AM a Psionics fan and didn't really find ths ITW to be all that great...ah well, considering how many of them are good, I guess its okay to have a somewhat boring one here and there.

 

[Olive]

What is nice is how much better they are in general these days. I remember when each ITW was greated with howls of irritation at the language and the lack of info.

They should have had a para or two about the new FR book tho.

 

[Simplicity]

Yep, pretty much a total vacuum of new information. Oh well, whatcha
gonna do...

 

[Kai Lord]

Maybe it's just little ol'non-psionics using me, but that has to have been the least interesting ITW for about a year!

Yeah but did you see the fantastic Nothic miniature? Long have I waited for a nice visual aid to show the players anytime they come across a monster with a chimp's ass sticking out of its mouth.

 

[Olive]

Yeah but did you see the fantastic Nothic miniature? Long have I waited for a nice visual aid to show the players anytime they come across a monster with a chimp's ass sticking out of its mouth.

And even that abomination (i believe in both the game sense and the 'ahhh, my eyes, my eyes..' sense) I'd seen before!

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Just out of curiosity, has there been any unofficial hint-dropping regarding the contents of the new psi book, Complete Divine, or even Complete Arcane?

If anything, I'm quite curious about what new core classes may be offered in any of these books. Sounds like there's more clues about the Expanded Psionics Handbook than either of the 2 newer Complete books.