The Dragon Compendium

[Krug]

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/dragon/compendium

As the beginning of Fall draws closer, we here at Paizo are looking forward to the October release of our next premiere book, The DRAGON Compendium, Vol. 1. This 256-page “Best Of” compilation collects some of the fan-favorite articles from the last thirty years of DRAGON magazine, updates them to the latest version of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game, and presents them with full-color artwork and the high-quality graphic design you’ve come to expect from DRAGON magazine.

The DRAGON Compendium, Volume 1 features updated information on Races, Classes, Prestige Classes, Magical Items and Equipment, Feats, Monsters, and a whole chapter devoted to DRAGON classics such as Gary Jordan’s Tesseracts and Ed Greenwood’s Runestones articles. Other updated content includes information on such favorites as:

* The Death Master by Len Lakofka
* The Jester by Roger E. Moore
* Solo Dungeons by Gary Gygax
* The Chi-Square Test by D.G. Weekes

Plus... more than 30 monsters, including the bleeder beholder and the orange, purple, and yellow dragons. Check out this space each week at paizo.com for sneak peeks into this Fall’s biggest release from Paizo Publishing. We’ll feature pdf preview pages, design diaries, a look at some brand new artwork, and much more as we draw closer to the release date for The DRAGON Compendium, Vol. 1.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

The tesseract article is one of my favorites from back in the day! Woot!

 

[DaveMage]

October is going to be a very expensive month...

 

[Psion]

As these very boards were used for research on what would be good inclusions, I expect a lot of people are going to be happy.

 

[BOZ]

like i mentioned elsewhere, i think the bleeder and death kiss beholders are the same thing?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Man, I LOVED the Jester back in the day. I hope they include the Killing Joke companion article as a high level bard spell or jester ability.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I'll be interested in seeing what updates make it to core classes and which make it to PrCs. For example, the Death Master was only a 13 level NPC class to begin with.

I wonder if the variant paladins like the llyan and fantra made it into the mix with all their different hit dice and spellcasting abilities. They were quite the weird ones back in the day but fun stuff.

 

[Sundragon2012]

I am looking forward to this....I still have the old Dragon Annuals with the Deathmaster and Jester in it.

Ah, the memories.


Chris

 

[the black knight]

Lest we forget the Suloise Pantheon, I suspect Greyhawk fans will be quite pleased with this compendium.

 

[Greg K]

I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for additional previews, because there are many articles that I would like to see updated, but none of the articles mentioned are on my list of top 100 favorite Dragon articles- well maybe the runestone article, but off the top of my head I cannot recall what in that article would need to be updated to 3.5.- or are they just reprinting it for those who may not have seen it the first time around?