The Complete Mage & The Complete Scoundrel

[Tuzenbach]

Alas....Scoundral is not a Star Wars book

Jeez, Crothian! That server crash REALLY took it's toll on you! Down to a meager 40k+ posts?

 

[Felon]

Jeez, Crothian! That server crash REALLY took it's toll on you! Down to a meager 40k+ posts?

When all you do is cruise around threadpooping one-line sentence fragments, it ain't that hard.

 

[Turanil]

Myself I am also waiting for the Complete Sorcerer, and then Complete Wilderness Wizard, and maybe also Complete Holy Necromancer, and that should make it. (BTW, I heard some rumors that the stuff in PHB III should add nifty clarifications too.)

 

[thalmin]

From the WotC September to December 2006 Catalog:

A D&D Supplement
Complete Mage
Ari Marmell and Skip Williams
A new D&D supplement all about arcane magic.
Complete Mage takes a fresh look at arcane magic in the D&D game. With 100% original material, it provides new ideas that put arcane magic into the hands of the players and Dungeon Masters in interesting ways. It also provides new types of feats, spells, warlock invocations, prestige classes, and magic items for characters that cast arcane spells, in addition to material for classes not normally associated with arcane magic.

It is listed as a hardcover book, 224 pages, MSRP of $29.95 / $39.95 Can

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Damn it, man, post a catalogue thread again!

 

[JPL]

Well, if tradition holds, WotC management generally forces the staff to keep the muzzles on until a few weeks before release. Just look how long we had to wait before getting any real info about the PHBII. Even the monthly previews don't give palpable teasers until a month beforehand.

It's a damned bizarre policy. Frustrating too. Best I can tell, the rationale is that getting you excited about a future product is a bad thing, because it might induce you to plan your purchases months ahead of time. They think it will hurt your chances of just buying whatever's currently on the shelves out of sheer impulsiveness.

Maybe they don't want to interest in the product to peak too soon?

Or maybe they're worried that if they end up posting a detailed outline, say, six months in advance, someone else will grind out a similar product beforehand?

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Or maybe they're worried that if they end up posting a detailed outline, say, six months in advance, someone else will grind out a similar product beforehand?

It's Wizards of the Coast. They fear no imitators.

 

[Li Shenron]

A D&D Supplement
Complete Mage
Ari Marmell and Skip Williams
A new D&D supplement all about arcane magic.
Complete Mage takes a fresh look at arcane magic in the D&D game. With 100% original material, it provides new ideas that put arcane magic into the hands of the players and Dungeon Masters in interesting ways. It also provides new types of feats, spells, warlock invocations, prestige classes, and magic items for characters that cast arcane spells, in addition to material for classes not normally associated with arcane magic.

If there wasn't Eric's grandma around, I would have now bursted out in huge swearings.... How could they possible call this "a fresh look"??? Yeah right, it says ALSO provides feats/spells/etc., not ONLY, but still this is everything except "fresh". Tome of Magic or Incarnum could be fresh, but Complete Mage is the least possibly innovative book scheduled.

 

[thalmin]

Damn it, man, post a catalogue thread again!

When I get the time. Just got the catalog last week, but RL has gotten in the way big time. I'll try in the next couple days.

 

[JoeGKushner]

From the WotC September to December 2006 Catalog:

It is listed as a hardcover book, 224 pages, MSRP of $29.95 / $39.95 Can

Either the price or page count is wrong or WoTC has changed their methods again as currently the 160 page book count equal $29.95.