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A guide for game masters about the Forgotten Realms setting. Provides background information on the lands of Faerûn, a detailed town in which to start a campaign, adventure seeds, new monsters, ready-to-play NPCs , and a full-colour poster map of Faerûn.
The first three combat types make up a "Combat Triangle", which governs effectiveness of styles in a rock-paper-scissors fashion; melee beats ranged, ranged beats magic, magic beats melee, and each style is neutral to itself. [33] Necromancy is a standalone method of combat and is neutral to the other styles.
Allen Varney briefly reviewed the original Tome of Magic for Dragon magazine No. 172 (August 1991). [3] Varney surmised that spellcasters would focus on "heavy artillery" spells, but cautioned that the wise DM "should prefer the many spells that don't cause damage but instead enable good stories" such as the many communication spells that allow characters to convey information more easily and ...
Fabrice Colin of Casus Belli felt that this supplement provided the raison d'etre of being a mage that had been missing in the original rules. "More than a varied gallery of ready-to-use NPCs, it is above all a precious guide on the lifestyle, the motivations and mentalities of the mages, as many elements were rather lacking in the basic rules."
Pages from the Mages is a supplement which features spells for the Forgotten Realms campaign, collected in a format that presents several spellbooks found in the campaign world, and details the histories of each of these spellbooks within the setting, as well as the backgrounds of the characters who created them and provides clues as to where in the world characters may now find the spellbooks ...
Complete Mage, for example, doesn't introduce new classes like Complete Arcane did, though it does provide some new options (feats, spells, and so on) for the new classes from Complete Arcane." [ 2 ] Shannon Appelcline identified Complete Mage as one of the books that "changed the way that D&D worked in dramatic ways" and may have influenced ...
[1] [7] Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage is available as a digital product through the following Wizards of the Coast licensees: D&D Beyond, Fantasy Grounds, and Roll20. A corresponding product, Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage Maps and Miscellany, was also released. This product reprinted handouts and 26 maps from the book on 8.5" x 11 ...
White Wolf Publications first published Mage: The Ascension in 1993 as part of its World of Darkness series of horror role-playing games. White Wolf subsequently released many supplements in support of the game, including 1996's Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds, a 200-page softcover book designed by Phil Brucato, Richard Dansky, Heather Heckel, Harry L. Heckel, Chris Hind, Angel Leigh ...