Wizards of the Coast in 2005 (Q1 and beyond!)

[Knightfall]

While it was previously noted that WotC had once again put up their product listings for Q1 2005, the actual descriptions didn't make it onto the board - just some of the covers posted by Eric Noah. (d20 Past, Complete Adventurer, Races of the Wild, Sandstorm, Eberron: Grasp of the Emerald Claw, Eberron: Races of Eberron, Forgotten Realms: Ancient Empires.)

This thread will bring together all of the relevant data into one thread, with links to other ongoing product info threads for Q1 2005.

Other Q1 2005 Discussion Threads

2005 January-April Wizards products (started by MerricB)
Complete Adventurer - sounds good (started by MerricB)
d20 Past? (started by Jer)
Sandstorm - beautifully illustrated (started by MerricB)

Plus, for the first time on EN World, the full description for...

Codex Anathema

The Book of Aberrations
Richard Baker, James Jacobs, Steve Winter

Codex Anathema: The Book of Aberrations takes a comprehensive look at the most bizarre monsters of the D&D world and the heroes who fight them. It provides detailed information about beholders, mind flayers, aboleths, and other popular aberrations, while also introducing several new aberrations. In addition, this book provides new rules, feats, tactics, spells, and equipment for characters that hunt aberrations. Extensive story and campaign elements add interest and dimension to playing or fighting creatures of this type. The book features a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and a full-painted cover.

Item Code 177410000
Release Date April 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 224
ISBN 0-7869-3657-6
Price $34.95 ; C$49.95

Next up... Ancient Empires.

 

[Knightfall]

See the previous post for a link to the cover

Ancient Empires

Forgotten Realms Sourcebook
Travis Stout

For the first time, the secrets of past empires of the Forgotten Realms world are chronicled in one comprehensive sourcebook. For players, this book contains new options for characters wishing to delve into ancient ruins, including new feats, prestige classes, magic, and equipment. For Dungeon Masters, this book contains new material associated with ruins, including rules for how to build and sustain a ruin-based campaign, more than a dozen detailed adventure sites with maps, and new monsters and artifacts.

Item Code 177380000
Release Date February 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 192
ISBN 0-7869-3654-1
Price $29.95 ; C$42.95

 

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Races of Eberron

A Race Series Supplement
Jesse Decker, Matthew Sernett, Keith Baker, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel

Races of Eberron provides Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters with an in-depth look at the new races of the Eberron Campaign Setting, including changelings, the kalashtar, shifters, and the warforged. The book includes extensive information on each race, plus new race-related feats, prestige classes, spells, and equipment. In addition, this book highlights the other major races of the Eberron world, including elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves, half-orcs, and drow.

Item Code 177450000
Release Date April 2005
Format Trade Hardcover
Page Count 192
ISBN 0-7869-3658-4
Price $29.95 ; C$42.95

 

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Deathknell Expansion Pack

Miniatures Booster Pack

The Deathknell Expansion Pack contains a randomized selection of figures designed to expand any collection of Dungeon & Dragons miniatures. The figures in this set will be chosen directly from key D&D titles, including Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead, Monster Manual III, Complete Adventurer, the Eberron Campaign Setting, and the classic D&D adventure, The Temple of Elemental Evil.

Item Code 966280000
Release Date March 2005
Format Booster Pack
ISBN 0-7869-3514-6

 

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Grasp of the Emerald Claw

Eberron Adventure
Bruce R. Cordell

This full-length adventure for the newest D&D campaign setting showcases many of the most unique traits of the Eberron setting. It plays out across the Eberron world and is designed to either be a stand-alone adventure or an immediate follow-up to the first and second published Eberron adventures, Shadows of the Last War and Whispers of the Vampire’s Blade.

Item Code 177300000
Release Date January 2005
Format Trade Paperback
Page Count 32
ISBN 0-7869-3652-5
Price $9.95 ; C$13.95

 

[DragonLancer]

Codex Anathema

The Book of Aberrations
Richard Baker, James Jacobs, Steve Winter

Codex Anathema: The Book of Aberrations takes a comprehensive look at the most bizarre monsters of the D&D world and the heroes who fight them. It provides detailed information about beholders, mind flayers, aboleths, and other popular aberrations, while also introducing several new aberrations. In addition, this book provides new rules, feats, tactics, spells, and equipment for characters that hunt aberrations. Extensive story and campaign elements add interest and dimension to playing or fighting creatures of this type. The book features a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and a full-painted cover.

If they do one of these for each of the different creature types (perhaps excluding vermin and animals) I will be quite pleased, Especially if they can keep the same excellent work that went into the Draconomicon.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I got my wish...I wanted either the Koboldomicon or the Illithiad...this Codex Anathema is good enough for me! Woo Mind Flayers!!

And Death Knell has ToEE mini(s)? Ooooooooooooooooooh....

 

[Warforged Janitor]

I'm kinda curious though. In an interview about the Planar Handbook, Bruce R. Cordell said he was working on a product centered around a part in the back of the DMG that player's usually drool over. I guessed that this was a book about magic items, but it's nowhere to be found in the january-april list. Perhaps it'll be in the may-august release list.

Among the new books, Sandstorm, Complete Adventurer and Codex Anathema are the ones I'm definately looking forward to. I'm probably gonna buy a whole lot of Deathknell packs too ...

Oh and from what I read about Ancient Empires, I just might pick it up and check it out. I don't play in FR anymore, but some of the stuff included might be worth porting over to my games.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'm kinda curious though. In an interview about the Planar Handbook, Bruce R. Cordell said he was working on a product centered around a part in the back of the DMG that player's usually drool over. I guessed that this was a book about magic items, but it's nowhere to be found in the january-april list. Perhaps it'll be in the may-august release list.

Among the new books, Sandstorm, Complete Adventurer and Codex Anathema are the ones I'm definately looking forward to. I'm probably gonna buy a whole lot of Deathknell packs too ...

Oh and from what I read about Ancient Empires, I just might pick it up and check it out. I don't play in FR anymore, but some of the stuff included might be worth porting over to my games.

Usually they work on books far ahead...I speculated that it was a Book of Magic Items a while back when the interview first came out, but the thread kind of died. It'll probably be a while(I'm thinking late 2005) before we see that book.

 

[DaveMage]

Maybe it's a book of magic items and/or artifacts.

I wonder what WotC will do for the remainder of 2005...

Should be interesting.