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10/10/2006 7:53 PM  

I bought the book today and have skimmed through it reading sections here and there so I haven’t read it in detail yet but so far so good. I'm a huge fan of playing casters and manifestors so you can take my opinions with a grain of salt.

There’s a lot of Warlock love in the book, maybe a bit too much. Two of the prestige classes make me reluctant to play any arcane or cleric class without a few levels of Warlock.

The beginning of the book has some very interesting takes on different types of casters and suggested builds.

The alternate class/feats section has a new type of feat that makes the arcane caster a bit better in combat encounters. I’ve experienced this as a player and DM when the caster runs out of spells most parties decide to call it a day and rest even if they have only fought one or two battles or if only a few hours,game time, have passed. With Reserve feats you can extend in game adventuring time without giving the caster to much extra power.

A quick read through on the prestige classes makes me want to build an arcane caster for my next character, I’n not a fan of arcane prestige classes before now. Eldritch disciple,Eldritch theurge and Ultimate Magus look good for pure casters while the rest have benefits for muilticlassed characters or specialists.

As always new spells and for a change more Warlock love with new invocations. New magic items are always fun as well some I like some I don’t, I’m not sure about heward’s fortifying bedroll I still have to work my way around the wording of the items powers.

Just my 2 cents worth


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10/11/2006 9:26 AM  
Dang! Is that out already......I guess a trip to vesivus is in order.


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10/11/2006 12:43 PM  
I'm looking forward to some reviews from you folks. Details, I need details.

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10/11/2006 9:37 PM  
I received my complete mage and ravenloft module today, now to dive in.

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10/12/2006 5:26 AM  
I just looked through it in the bookstore yesterday and was quite impressed. I was pleased to see the new Warlock stuff and since I'm a HUGE Hexblade fan, I was glad to see a couple new feats that would benefit them and a fair amount of new spells. And even though I still don't like the new magic item format, there's a new rod in there that made me laugh. It reminded me of this:


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10/15/2006 8:57 AM  
I ordered mine online, haven't gotten it yet. Probably on Monday. Mike

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10/15/2006 9:09 AM  
I have it.

It isn't bad, but the number of 'high utility' spells/feats/etc... is low. It is a very useful book if you play a warlock, but in general I was a tad disappointed. Regardless, there are a half dozen things in the book that I'd like to get in the hands of some of my PCs (a few spells, two feats).

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10/16/2006 3:03 PM  
I found that some of the feats and most of the prestige classes are very useful. The rest of the book is just ok. If you have a gaming group you'd probably only need one person to buy one.

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10/16/2006 7:15 PM  
You know, that makes me more excited. I'm starting to get a bit overwhelmed by the amount of spells but I was hoping for more feats and prestige classes for mages, who I thought have ben slighted in the past.

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