Product Catalog Updated!

[Knightfall]

WotC has updated its Product Catalog with descriptions of its D&D releases for 3rd and 4th Quarter 2005. Below are the highlights...

Fantastic Locations: Fane of the Drow
D&D Fantastic Locations Series
Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel with Rob Heinsoo

Item Code 950037400
Release Date September 2005
Format Trade Paperback
Page Count 16
ISBN 0-7869-3847-1
Price $14.95; C$19.95

Fantastic Locations: Fane of the Drow features two double-sided poster maps designed for roleplaying and miniatures skirmish play. An accompanying 16-page adventure can be dropped into any campaign. Enemies consist of creatures from various D&D miniatures. Miniatures skirmish scenarios are included for additional play options, written to allow Dungeon Masters to seamlessly integrate D&D Miniatures into the adventure. The two poster maps, which are scaled for tabletop play, can be put together to form the temple of the drow, while the reverse sides feature other fantastic dungeon locations players can explore.

Magic of Incarnum
D&D Supplement
James Wyatt, Frank Brunner, Stephen Schubert

Item Code 885797200
Release Date September 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 224
ISBN 0-7869-3701-7
Price $34.95; C$49.95

This supplement introduces a magical substance called incarnum into the D&D game. With this book, the players characters can meld incarnum—the power of souls living, dead, and unborn—into magical items and even their own bodies, granting them special attacks, defenses, and other abilities (much as magic items and spells do). Incarnum can be shaped and reshaped into new forms, giving characters tremendous versatility in the dungeon and on any battlefield.

This book also features new classes, prestige classes, feats, and other options for characters wishing to explore the secrets of incarnum, as well as rules and advice for including incarnum in a D&D campaign.

Magic of Eberron
Eberron Campaign Supplement
Bruce R. Cordell, Stephen Schubert, Chris Thomasson

Item Code 882917200
Release Date October 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 160
ISBN 0-7869-3696-7
Price $29.95; C$39.95

Magic of Eberron explores the variety of magic available in the Eberron world. It introduces a wealth of new arcane and divine spells, and artificer infusions. Chapters explore the more unusual manifestations of magic in Eberron, such as elemental binding, dragonshards and dragon magic, and the corrupted magic of the daelkyr. A chapter on lost magic explains how to make the discovery of new magical secrets a central feature of any Eberron campaign.

Heroes of Horror
D&D Genre Series Supplement
James Wyatt, Ari Marmell, C.A. Suleiman

Item Code 885227200
Release Date October 2005
Format Hardcover
Page Count 160
ISBN 0-7869-3699-1
Price $29.95; C$39.95

Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige classes, and new magic items. The book presents new mechanics for different types of horror, including rules for dread and tainted characters, as well as plenty of new horrific monsters and adventure seeds. Different types and genres of horror are discussed in detail.

Underdark Booster Pack
D&D Miniatures Booster Pack

Item Code 967380000
Release Date November 2005
Format Boxed Set
ISBN 0-7869-3522-7
Price $12.99; C$17.99

The source for the latest D&D miniatures release, the Underdark is a vast underground region replete with many iconic D&D monsters, including the infamous – and popular – drow elves. Per previous releases, the figures in this set are chosen from key D&D titles such as the Monster Manual, Book of Exalted Deeds, and Complete Adventurer. The set also features a wealth of characters from Forgotten Realms products such as Underdark, Unapproachable East, City of the Spider Queen, and the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. Forgotten Realms novel readers will also recognize a range of familiar characters from best-selling titles. As an added bonus, eight miniatures will also have a second stat card that features epic-level stats specifically for high-level versions of those figures.

Booster pack contents
* Eight randomized, pre-painted, plastic miniatures.
* Stat cards for each miniature, plus eight additional epic-level stat cards.
* Underdark set checklist.

Champions of Valor
Forgotten Realms Campaign Supplement
Thomas M. Reid and Sean K. Reynolds

Item Code 882927200
Release Date November 2005
Format Hardcover
Page Count 160
ISBN 0-7869-3697-5
Price $29.95; C$39.95

Champions of Valor is a comprehensive guide to playing valiant heroes in the Forgotten Realms setting. The counterpart to Champions of Ruin, Champions of Valor covers what it means to be valorous in the Realms. The book describes several good-aligned guilds and organizations that characters can join, as well as the benefits for doing so. In addition, the book presents an array of new spells, feats, and prestige classes appropriate for heroes of valor, and opens up new opportunities for adventure, fame, and glory for truly heroic characters.

Fantastic Locations: Hellspike Prison
D&D Fantastic Locations Series
Matthew Sernett with Rob Heinsoo

Item Code 950047400
Release Date November 2005
Format Trade Paperback
Page Count 16
ISBN 0-7869-3848-X
Price $14.95; C$19.95

Fantastic Locations: Hellspike Prison features two double-sided poster maps designed for roleplaying and miniatures skirmish play, plus an accompanying 16-page adventure that can be dropped into any campaign. Enemies include creatures from the recent Underdark miniatures expansion. Miniatures skirmish scenarios are included for additional play options. The two poster maps can be put together to form the fiery underdark cavern known as Hellspike Prison, while the reverse sides feature other fantastic underdark locations players can explore.

Spell Compendium
D&D Supplement
Matthew Sernett, Jeff Grubb, Mike McArtor

Item Code 885987200
Release Date December 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 288
ISBN 0-7869-3702-5
Price $39.95; C$53.95

Spell Compendium provides players and Dungeon Masters with quick access to the D&D spells they need most. Drawing from a treasure trove of sources, Spell Compendium is the one place to find spells that are referenced time and again: the best, most iconic, most popular, and most frequently used. This convenient reference introduces a new spell format that includes descriptive text.

 

[Knightfall]

d20 Modern in late 2005

One release listed so far...

d20 Cyberscape
d20 Modern Campaign Product
Owen K. C. Stephens

Item Code 881847400
Release Date September 2005
Format Trade Paperback
Page Count 96
ISBN 0-7869-3695-9
Price $19.95; C$26.95

This new rules supplement provides everything players and Gamemasters need to create and run campaigns featuring cybernetics in the post-modern realm of cyberpunk fiction. Building on the d20 Future cybernetic rules, d20 Cyberscape includes rules for installing cybernetics and playing cyborgs, as well as new advanced classes and enhancements. d20 Cyberscape also features rules for magical and psionic cybernetics and virtual reality networks.

 

[Knightfall]

BTW, covers are linked to on Amazon on this thread.

 

[A'koss]

Fane of the Drow and Hellspike Prision are about the only two I'm really interested in but @ $20 a pop, it's kinda hard to justify...

 

[Alzrius]

Magic of Incarnum looks really cool, I'll be keeping an eye out for that one. Likewise, I think that Heroes of Horror will definately be worth a look. However, after the smoking train-wreck that was Champions of Ruin, I wonder about Champions of Valor.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This supplement introduces a magical substance called incarnum into the D&D game. With this book, the players characters can meld incarnum—the power of souls living, dead, and unborn—into magical items and even their own bodies, granting them special attacks, defenses, and other abilities (much as magic items and spells do). Incarnum can be shaped and reshaped into new forms, giving characters tremendous versatility in the dungeon and on any battlefield.

This book also features new classes, prestige classes, feats, and other options for characters wishing to explore the secrets of incarnum, as well as rules and advice for including incarnum in a D&D campaign.

/sniff

We missed you, Monty Haul. I was hoping for a whole book of magical whoosits that will totally change the way my game is played and isn't planned for in any current setting.

Spell Compendium provides players and Dungeon Masters with quick access to the D&D spells they need most. Drawing from a treasure trove of sources, Spell Compendium is the one place to find spells that are referenced time and again: the best, most iconic, most popular, and most frequently used. This convenient reference introduces a new spell format that includes descriptive text.

Please tell me this isn't saying they're reprinting PHB spells in a seperate supplement.

 

[Li Shenron]

Fane of the Drow / Hellspike Prison

What a pity, I was hoping for new adventures, but 16 pages is very very short for my own tastes... And I definitely can find ready locations in other books if I want, so I doubt I would find these two worth buying.

Magic of Incarnum

This is large book, it sounds like a whole new subsystem to use as a whole, perhaps a kind of book somewhat in line with Ghostwalk (but not that extreme to incorporate). I am not attracted by the idea very much yet, but let's see what comes out of it. However I hope it won't end up used as a cherry-pick book.

Spell Compendium

Actually I'd really like to have a compendium of spells in one single book. There are 2 problems tho... (1) what about spells in the NEXT books and (2) 40$ is VERY expensive - by the time it reaches Finland it'll probably cost about 45 euros.

Heroes of Horror

Probably the most interesting. Well, there are already rules for taint or corruption in several books: BoVD, OA, UA... It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the book is going to be.

 

[philreed]

Item Code 885797200
Release Date September 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 224
ISBN 0-7869-3701-7
Price $34.95; C$49.95

This supplement introduces a magical substance called incarnum into the D&D game. With this book, the players characters can meld incarnum—the power of souls living, dead, and unborn—into magical items and even their own bodies, granting them special attacks, defenses, and other abilities (much as magic items and spells do). Incarnum can be shaped and reshaped into new forms, giving characters tremendous versatility in the dungeon and on any battlefield.

This book also features new classes, prestige classes, feats, and other options for characters wishing to explore the secrets of incarnum, as well as rules and advice for including incarnum in a D&D campaign.

This sounds very close to a concept I've been knocking around (and have even thrown some spirit-charged feats into the DM's Idea Pipeline). I'll be very curious to see how this book handles the concept of drawing power from souls and spirits.

 

[MerricB]

I'm very much looking forward to the two Fantastic Locations. 16 pages is enough for a good adventure, depending on how it is presented. Not reprinting lots of monster stats would help, of course!

Cheers!

 

[wingsandsword]

I loved the AD&D 2e Spell Compendiums, because they were proud to be every spell ever produced for the system, dating back to ancient issues of Dragon and obscure settings almost nobody had ever heard of, all updated and revised. They were the complete archive of every official spell for AD&D ever made, be it from core book, suppliment, Dragon magazine or module. Of course, they made them at the twilight of 2e, I think that the last volume of the Priest's Spell Compendium was the last 2e book made actually.

Now, this Spell Compendium doesn't even come close. It doesn't claim to have every spell made for 3e, just the most popular and widely used. Half the fun of the old compendiums was finding obscure spells in there you'd never heard of, not just reprints of spells you already liked. Also, if Charles Ryan has been saying we're nowhere near the end of 3e, isn't it a little early to be producing a big master spellbook? Or are we just going to get an Expanded Spell Compendium in a few more years that's bigger, more expensive and outdates our existing one?

Oh, and let me still grumble one more thing: Nothing more for d20 Star Wars?!?