Message to the editors (and anyone else who wants to chime in).
Will material from either Incarnum or Heroes of Horror make it into the AOW? I know that Incarnum might be seen in the same light as psionics (and thus not AOW worthy material), but it would be nice to see the new source of power in D&D officially used in an adventure. As for Heroes of Horror, the AOW seems a perfect place for the material from that book to be used, especially since material from BoVD is getting used.
On a similar note, I see that a lot of people are using Weapons of Legacy to give their AOW campaigns an extra twist. How about bringing a weapon of legacy into the AOW in the next couple of adventures? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate the effort.
Creative Director
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Material from Magic of Incarnum will not be appearing in Age of Worms. This supplement is in the same category as psionics; it's a capstone system that not all players will use or be familair with. In addition, we were already so far into the Age of Worms' development and design by the time we got to check out the Incarnum rules that it would have been quite disruptive to add any Incarnum stuff into the adventure. Magic of Incarnum adventures will be treated as psionic adventures; we'll run one, at most, once a year. Less, if we never see any good ones submitted.
As for Heroes of Horror... we still haven't had a chance to look those rules over and since we just got part 8 of the Adventure Path handed in this week, chances are good that we won't be incorperating anything from that book into the Adventure Path as well. Of course, once we see the book, that might change; there could be some neat new monsters or a prestige class we'll use...
Basically... the time for incorperating new rule books like this into something as complex as an Adventure Path is at the concepting stage. That was about a year ago, so it's pretty much too late now.
As for weapons of legacy... there's a better chance that some of those might get in to the adventure path, although they'll take up a fair amount of room since we'll need to reprint a lot of stuff... We'll see...
Thanks for the input James. It does mean of course that I'll be sending you both a few Weapons of Legacy proposals and a few Magic of Incarnum proposals in the next few weeks, just in case none of my Eberron proposals get the green light (which considering the number of acceptances versus the number of proposals is probably a good bet).
Just to throw in my opinion, I would prefer to *not* see anything from Weapons of Legacy or Magic of Incarnum in Age of Worms. As for Heroes of Horror, I do not know, as I have not read it.
MI