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Necromancers of the Northwest is a small, third-party publisher that focuses primarily on producing content for 3.5/Pathfinder. What's really special about Necromancers of the Northwest, however, is that all of our content is available to the public 100% free of charge!
Our first book, Liber Vampyr, is a 90-page .pdf which attempts to re-examine the way vampires are handled by Pathfinder and the 3.5 OGL. Far more than a list of variant monsters, this book contains three new base classes, three new prestige classes, an exciting new system of "blood magic", and a dizzying array of feats and vampiric abilities. You could take my word that this fun, innovative tome has the power to radically alter the way you view bloodsuckers, or you could just go pick it up yourself at www.necromancers-online.com. After all, it's free.
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Just downloaded and after a brief look it looks great if not essential if you want to run a vampire flavored campaign.
One question though, parts of the text are selectable, and large parts are not (and also does not scale well when zooming). Any particular reason for this?
Cool, I will try to look through this tonight.
I've been wondering what sort of word would make sense for a blood mage, and Cruomancer just works beautifully.
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You guys did some great work! I look forward to checking out your future productions.
That said, I noticed a few errors in this book. These are just from the read-through I did earlier today:
1) On page 8, the last sentence at the bottom of the first column just ends, and isn't continued at the top of the second column.
2) Some things, such as the Blood Conversion feat, have the user take Constitution damage to himself to gain an effect. However, since revenants, and other vampires, don't have Constitution scores, this seems to preclude them from using that feat, and effects like it. Are those meant to be restricted to living characters?
3) The Black Blood Magic feat says (under the "Normal" listing) that that feat is the only way to gain 7th-level blood powers. However, Table 4-1 indicates that you gain 7th-level blood powers at cruomancer level 19+.
4) The Vampire Hunter's 5th-level ability, Critical Undead, seems to be based off of the idea that undead creatures can't normally be crit'd or sneak attacked - in Pathfinder, however, undead are subject to crits and sneak attacks normally. Hence, this power is superfluous.
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Thanks for all the interest, and I'm glad to hear that you like it, for the most part.
To answer your questions:
The reason that some of the text is selectable and some of it isn't is beyond me. We made all the pages in Adobe Photoshop and then converted them to .pdf. I wasn't really expecting any of it to be selectable, and wasn't that concerned about it. If there's enough interest, we may release an all-selectable-text version in the future.
@alzrius
1) Wow, I can't believe we missed that. I'll make sure it gets fixed in the first version of the errata (we realized a while back that one of the nice things about releasing your stuff as free .pdfs is that instead of cumbersome errata documents everyone ignores, you can just update the original document)
2) It's designed primarily for living cruomancers, yes, but if you take a look at possess thrall and possession, vampiric you may find a way for even undead cruomancers to use them.
3) It's true that, theoretically, if a 7th-level blood power that did not specifically require Black Blood Magic existed that you would not need the feat to take that 7th-level blood power. All of the 7th-level blood powers in that book, however, specifically require that feat.
4) You're totally right about that. I don't know how we could have missed that. Thanks for the heads-up and we'll definitely have that fixed in the first errata.
Thanks again for your interest and feedback, everyone. We really appreciate it, and it helps us to make sure the material we make is the material you want.
Alexander Riggs wrote: Necromancers of the Northwest is a small, third-party publisher that focuses primarily on producing content for 3.5/Pathfinder. What's really special about Necromancers of the Northwest, however, is that all of our content is available to the public 100% free of charge!
Our first book, Liber Vampyr, is a 90-page .pdf which attempts to re-examine the way vampires are handled by Pathfinder and the 3.5 OGL. Far more than a list of variant monsters, this book contains three new base classes, three new prestige classes, an exciting new system of "blood magic", and a dizzying array of feats and vampiric abilities. You could take my word that this fun, innovative tome has the power to radically alter the way you view bloodsuckers, or you could just go pick it up yourself at www.necromancers-online.com. After all, it's free.
While you're there, you may also want to check out our articles, as we have something new on the site every day Monday through Friday.
*perks up* free? did somebody say free? thas the magic word for me. ;)
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For those interested, I've posted my review of Liber Vampyr over on EN World.
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