The Thayan Menace said:
I haven't checked out Bastion since Spells & Magic came out; do they actually have decent artists now?
Yes, the sinewy art from the original Oathbound book and the earlier products is long gone. We have a whole new set of artists, with a couple of holdovers from our more recent products, but the look is much more of your "traditional" fantasy look than the more alien approach of earlier products.
The disjoiner is from Oathbound, but the Oathbound Player's Guide, vastly reworks the channeling classes as well. The disjoiner from Plains of Penance, which Psion referred to, pretty much retained the name and that's about it.
When I first received the task of producing the Oathbound supplements, one of my top priorities was to bring balance to several mechanical elements where needed. Wildwood, the latest Oathbound release-available in several special editions at GenCon
is a reflection of that. The prestige race mechanic has been reworked, the races have been adjusted and all of the other crunchy bits have been given a thorough inspection and tweaking when necessary.
BTW...I've also been working on some of the crunchy bits for Castlemorn-a product that we're releasing in conjunction with Studio 2 publishing. It's a new campaign setting by...Ed Greenwood, the author of Forgotten Realms.