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Just got #351
Haven't read through all the articles yet, so don't expect instant answers.
Read Order of the Stick, laughed. (Belkar was overcharged I think)
Read Nodwick, this one belongs in every gaming table.
Started reading Class Acts... Hit the Arcane one...
Stared. Muttered. Cursed.
Who's idea was it to give the arcane casters Psionic Focus under a new name?
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Who's idea was it to give the arcane casters Psionic Focus under a new name?
Complete Mage (re?)introduced the concept.
I'm not a big fan of the Arcane Class Acts for a similar reason. It seems like 1 out of every 6 articles is actually using a core mechanic (as compared to maybe 1 out of every 2 or 3 articles for the other archtypes). The rest use the latest add-on from Tome of Magic/Dragon Magic/Complete Mage/Complete Harry Potter/etc. And then every so often we get psionics instead.
I wish there were an Expanded Class Acts category for these types of things. I haven't seen the article, so maybe the Arcane Focus stuff is usable w/o Complete Mage, but the Tome of Magic stuff is not.
Just got #351
Haven't read through all the articles yet, so don't expect instant answers.
Read Order of the Stick, laughed. (Belkar was overcharged I think)
Read Nodwick, this one belongs in every gaming table.
Started reading Class Acts... Hit the Arcane one...
Stared. Muttered. Cursed.
Who's idea was it to give the arcane casters Psionic Focus under a new name?
I want to know a lot of things, but tell me these first:
1) What does the Al-Qadim article cover?
2) What does the Planescape article cover?
3) What's covered in all the Class Acts?
Thanks. :D
2) What does the Planescape article cover?
*grin*
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Ok, let me try to get these in before work.
Al-Qadim: How to fly airships into Sharn's buildings.
Sorry, seriously. It's dealing with the desert tribes, by Wolfgang Baur.
Planescape: The gatetown of Ecstasy, by Todd Stewart. It's the Gatetown between the outlands and Elysium. (thus explaining the grin)
Class acts:
Adventurer: 'Real' Ninjas. Suggestions on equipment and some new feats, ki mostly
Arcane: Look, lets take one of the unique things from psionics and call it magic.
Divine: General cleric info on divine casting, turning, alignment, and some complete divine errata.
Warrior: magical cybernetic implants for monks, blah.
Dragonlance has info on Istar. Since DL is still in print, I'd have preferred a Mystara piece instead, but that's personal preference. (I wish DL products would stop going back to the original trillogy, but that's a seperate rant)
Ah, more Ninja ki feats. Nice. :D
Dragonlance has info on Istar. Since DL is still in print, I'd have preferred a Mystara piece instead, but that's personal preference. (I wish DL products would stop going back to the original trilogy, but that's a seperate rant)
Istar wasn't the original trilogy. It was the second trilogy, Legends. :) And we split our products fairly evenly between Age of Despair/War of the Lance stuff, current era/Age of Mortals stuff, and era-independent stuff, so it's not like we're retreading things all that often.
Cheers,
Cam
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[Istar wasn't the original trilogy. It was the second trilogy, Legends. :) And we split our products fairly evenly between Age of Despair/War of the Lance stuff, current era/Age of Mortals stuff, and era-independent stuff, so it's not like we're retreading things all that often.
Cheers,
Cam
Ok getting off my original rant. (and sneaking on from work)
Cam, I'm happy with the Beastiary (Lightning Draconians rock my world) The Towers, Legends, and most all of teh other DL products I've bought.
I didn't mean to imply that that's -all- that's out there. I should have been clearer.
Seeing Yet Another Trillogy With the Companions (Dragonlance: what the rest of the party was doing while Tanis was in the loo) a 3.5 edition of the original set of modules, more War of the Lance references etc. isn't what I want from the product line. (Legends is the exception, since it deals with Time Travel and alternate Dragonlances) I want to go forward. (And an update for Taladas, which I liked more anyway :-P)
it would be like every few years Forgotten Realms: Just in case you wanted more information about the Time of Troubles came out. Or Greyhawk: Yes Rary's still an evil son of a basalisk, want to go voer it again?
and Istar was in the first trillogy, albiet under the sea :-)
Oh, and back on topic and somewhat nearer my heart... I love James Lowder's work on Sithcus. Pity Taki's dead. I'd love to see her meet the mirror night
The weird thing with Dragonlance, which I think separates it from the other D&D campaign settings featured in novels, is that from what I have heard the first 6 books still consistently outsell the newer ones outside of initial release period. Newcomers to Dragonlance are still sent to Chronicles and Legends, and we have new fans every year. The kids read these books, want to play in that world since they hear it's D&D, and so we have to service that market, which is really enormous.
So yeah, the current novels and game products are moving things forward, but the DL creators would be crazy to ignore the huge segment of the fandom that just wants more of the War of the Lance.
Cheers,
Cam