SCOOP! Wizards to release 3E Draconomicon

[Kai Lord]

Currently in development now. I can't reveal my source, but you can bet I'll be bumping this thread when WOTC makes the official announcement...

 

[Kai Lord]

Oh...and the art is gonna rock.

 

[Crothian]

Do we really need it? I have a few good books on dragons already.

 

[Kai Lord]

As far as official 3E game material on Dragons from WOTC, all I'm aware of is the Monster Manual. It'll be cool to see what the new book brings to the table.

 

[Crothian]

As far as official 3E game material on Dragons from WOTC, all I'm aware of is the Monster Manual. It'll be cool to see what the new book brings to the table.

Official? What an odd concept. What's official? Is it only the stuff in the SRD? Or perhaps only books published by certain companies? I don't like the concept of official in an RPG because it sounds like someone is trying to tell me what I can use in my game.

Dragon books: Slayers Guide to Dragons, Dragons, and Draconic Lore. Least those are the three I know of, there may be others. I'll leave it up to the individual DMs to determine what is official or not in their games.

The book might be well done, and it might be better then these other books. There was time when Wizards was producing better books then the other people, but I don't feel that is the case anymore.

 

[rounser]

Do we really need it?

Not in the least. But it'll sell to the same people who buy things like books of god stats, and that's all that matters.

 

[Chun-tzu]

As far as official 3E game material on Dragons from WOTC, all I'm aware of is the Monster Manual.

Don't forget the dragons in Monster Manual 2 and Oriental Adventures.

I'm always interested in a good Draconomicon, especially if it contains useful material for _players_, not primarily DMs. I would love to see a good Dracomancer prestige class. The Dragonscribe is okay, but I'd like to see other takes, especially a fully developed 10-level prestige class.

 

[BOZ]

i certainly hope it's going to be FR if they're using that name...

 

[jasamcarl]

Official? What an odd concept. What's official? Is it only the stuff in the SRD? Or perhaps only books published by certain companies? I don't like the concept of official in an RPG because it sounds like someone is trying to tell me what I can use in my game.

Dragon books: Slayers Guide to Dragons, Dragons, and Draconic Lore. Least those are the three I know of, there may be others. I'll leave it up to the individual DMs to determine what is official or not in their games.

The book might be well done, and it might be better then these other books. There was time when Wizards was producing better books then the other people, but I don't feel that is the case anymore.

Uh, I have still yet to see anything from d20 publishers that is comparible to Wotc in terms of solid, workable, balanced mechanics.

 

[jasamcarl]

Not in the least. But it'll sell to the same people who buy things like books of god stats, and that's all that matters.

Yeah, you know, those people who would like some mechanical payoff for their imagination, the latter of which is so abundent as to not be nearly as marketable. Atleast they aren't trying to sell us the same, slightly tweaked, literalist cliche's that some fantasy fanboys would like to see.