moosher12 wrote:
StarMartyr365 wrote:
moosher12 wrote:
With Pactbinder seemingly being ported to 2E via this book, and Runelords being confirmed to be ported, that makes both Dark Archive and Secrets of Magic taken from.
It makes me wonder what will happen with reprints of those books.
I could see Dark Archives getting a remaster and the remaining parts of Secrets of Magic being folded into another “magic” book. Secrets of Magic would require an extensive rewrite whereas the Pactbinder is two pages. I’m thinking that both books and the four classes in them will be folded into another “magic” book or something like that.
I was thinking something similar. It probably would not be unreasonable to imagine a combination book of the two.
Dark Archives has a lot of fluff text, so a book that combines Dark Archives content into a Secrets of Magic style book would not increase the size much, I'm pretty sure you can squeeze most of Dark Archives mechanical content into Secrets of Magic without breaching 320, with potential room for more.
I don't want to get overly ambitious with the thought, but I'm beginning to wonder. I think there is room to speculate that with the Impossible Playtest classes being so magical. I can imagine whatever book contains them can reasonably contain the remaining 4 classes and magical subclasses.
Both Dark Archive and the Impossible Playtest classes would fall easily under a secrets of magic theme, (and the Necromancer would fit well with content from Book of the Dead). So I can the Impossible Playtest being the book that finally puts to end the remaining classes, and also does a biggest hits port of legacy content from among Book of the Dead, Dark Archive, and Secrets of Magic, alongside copious new content.
I don't wanna sound crazy, but this could be a potential Player Core 3. Granted, I might also just be letting my imagination become overactive. Either way, I look forward to seeing what comes of this. Seeing stuff spliced from Secrets of Magic and Dark...
This is my theory as well.