The Complete Mage - What are your Thoughts

[Thanee]

Some new Warlock Invocations sounds useful, there is a little shortage of them.

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Thanee

 

[Greg K]

If anyone form WotC Research and Development is reading this thread take note. Make this section as good as the PHBII section regarding class variants and it will go a long way in making this book well worth the expense.

I love class variants, but I was disappointed with almost all of the PHBII offerings. Therefore, I would subsitute PHBII with Unearthed Arcana.

 

[Mercule]

Sounds like it could be an interesting book. I'm definitely up for more Warlock goodness. Wu Jen, not so much -- I like my fantasy distinctly psuedo-western.

Odds are that I'll be picking this up.

 

[jcfiala]

I hadn't really heard about this, but as I'm currently playing a Wizard I'm pretty interested in seeing what comes out there... always interesting to find new and different ways to blow things up. ^_^

 

[DaveMage]

I like the alternative class features, such as the PHB II sorcerer alternative.

The idea of other classes having a touch of magic sounds good to me.

 

[Psion]

I'm more of the mind that if you want to make a caster, the RAW gave you multi-classing for a reason. So if that's a large part of the of the book, the book will largely be a waste for me.

If it's something more to the tune of Book of Iron Might (which "retaining their core identity" sort of suggests), I'll be a bit more receptive to the content of the book.

 

[Vanye]

Charged with magical power huh? Hope its not just a rehashed Psionic focus type deal.

Or possibly something like the mindset spells present in the Races of eberron book, where as long as the spell remained uncast, the caster got some bonuses (as I recall, mostly skill related bonuses).

 

[Graf]

Some of it will just be "pulling back in stuff from other books". Psionics has had "reserve feats" for a while (so long as you have x psionic points this feat works like blah blah blah).

The core classes are just going to get to take advantage of some of that.

It could be worthwhile, depends on the execution.
Recently the Compelte Psionic was strong on new material and weak on expanding older mechanics but the PHB II was strong expanding older material (with little "new") stuff.
So there is hope.

 

[Wik]

Sounds like it could be an interesting book. I'm definitely up for more Warlock goodness. Wu Jen, not so much -- I like my fantasy distinctly psuedo-western.

Odds are that I'll be picking this up.

A little off-topic here, but when I ran a campaign based around the Roman Empire, I included Wu Jen but renamed them "elementalists". They were the primal practitioners of magic - all the first human mages were elementalists, until they began sharing information with one another and the first true "wizards" were born.

If you change the name and maybe rework the taboos a bit, you can keep that western feel.

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Regarding the book itself... I'm more looking forward to Complete Rogue, Since I'd love to see more spellthief support. I'd also like to see what arcane offerings they give to the rogue, since I've always been a big fan of the rogue/wizard hybrid character. Which is sort of funny, since I'm not too keen on playing straight rogues or wizards.

 

[variant]

I am hoping for an alternative Warlock with powers from Fae forces instead.