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Originally posted by Dargoth

Spell Compendium: If it was going to be a Complete book like its 4 2ed Predessors than Id snap it up but it looks like its going to be a "Best of D&D spells"

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Originally posted by The Sage

The 'Fantastic Locations' series doesn't appeal to you Rad?

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Originally posted by Lord Rad

Spell Compendium

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Hellspike Prison (Fantastic Locations series)

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Heroes of Horror

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Magic of Incarnum

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Fane of the Drow (Fantastic Locations series)

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I feel pretty confident in saying that D&D has never seen a system quite like the one presented in Magic of Incarnum.

Honestly, I've never seen a system quite like this one anywhere, though I fully admit that I've not read every game or supplement ever produced.

If you're looking for a form of magic that feels like neither traditional spellcasting nor psionics, you should give the book a try.

(And note that the product page doesn't say "use souls as fuel." That'd be a mischaracterization of what's going on here...but I'll not reveal more.) ;)

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This book is pretty much my baby, and I am more proud of it than of anything else I've done in my career so far. For a couple of years, whenever we'd talk about what products we should do, I'd always pipe up with, "We should do something totally new, something that's never been done before." I mean, I think we needed 3E versions of the stuff that's been around in D&D forever—psionics, planes, Oriental Adventures, and so on—but I really wanted us to innovate beyond the things that have always been a part of the game.

So I finally put my money where my mouth was and came up with the idea for this book—and then I got to write it, with a lot of help from some brilliant designers and developers. In a nutshell, this is the same kind of book as the Expanded Psionics Handbook: A new system of magic-like stuff. But that description is where the resemblance to psionics ends.

The magic of incarnum is a form of magic that combines persistent effects with round-by-round resource management. It's a flexible system that you can use to create a lot of different effects. There are three standard classes that use this system, and then a bunch of prestige classes that let them (and characters from other backgrounds) use it in new and interesting ways.

We also tried very hard to provide ways to integrate the system into an ongoing game. There are feats and spells that allow existing characters to learn some techniques that use incarnum. There's a chapter on campaigns that includes three different adventure arcs that you can use to introduce incarnum into your game, whether you prefer to say that these techniques have always been around and kept hidden, or they've just been discovered.

Frank Brunner and Stephen Schubert (before we hired him as a developer) were the freelance designers on the book, and both of them brought an incredible amount of creativity to it. Andy Collins led a very rigorous development process that burned off the dross and produced a refined masterpiece, with a lot of additional design from Rich Baker. It's an awesome book, in my not-at-all-humble opinion, and I'm pretty sure that when it comes out, you will be as excited about it as I am.

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Originally posted by tauster

perhaps Magic of Incarnum could be converted and then used in combination with the 2e arcane age adventures, when karsus discovered and experimented with heavy magic. otherwise, i see no use for it in a FR campaign. in a multiworld- campaign (spelljammer, planescape) as essential part on another world, perhaps...

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Originally posted by tauster

perhaps Magic of Incarnum could be converted and then used in combination with the 2e arcane age adventures, when karsus discovered and experimented with heavy magic. otherwise, i see no use for it in a FR campaign. in a multiworld- campaign (spelljammer, planescape) as essential part on another world, perhaps...

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Originally posted by George Krashos

As to Sage's comment re how do we explain the lack of incarnum in the modern Realms, well quite simply we aren't talking about incarnum at all - we would just be adapting the game mechanics for our own partcular requirements. The question that should be asked is how do we explain the lack of heavy magic in the modern Realms?

There are a few in-game explanations for this, not the least of which was that it was the baby of Karsus and abandoned in terms of spell research by him. It's doubtful he would have shared his research or lore with other arcanists. We could resurrect heavy magic by finding one of Karsus' boltholes (like the one showcased in "The Temptation of Elminster") and finding his notes and maybe a sample of this stuff. Sounds like a good DRAGON magazine article to me.

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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR

I do wonder how the Incarnum material will work in WOTC's new baby Eberron, since "everything in D&D is in Eberron" (I've heard that before somewhere . . . )

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Originally posted by The Sage

Any particular reason why Heroes of Horror piqued your interest Warlockco?

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I'm thinking that "Weapons of Legacy" may have lots of stuff that will sit well with the Realms.

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I'm thinking that "Weapons of Legacy" may have lots of stuff that will sit well with the Realms.

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Here's the link - http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/178620000

I actually think you might be right about that Krash. I'd originally dismissed this product because I thought that it would be solely a 'crunch-based' tome. But now I can see this tome which, if used in conjunction with LEoF, could produce some very intriguing results, as well as a host of adventure-generating material...

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