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Title: Ghostwalk: Campaign Option (Dungeons & Dragons Setting) by Monte Cook, Sean K. Reynolds ISBN: 0-7869-2834-4 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 28 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Unnecessary
Comment: You have a great 20th level character, he flubs his saving throw, he dies!...
...so his friends take him to the party cleric or the local high temple and get him resurrected.
As with most of the books from Wizards of the Coast, this, too, is not needed. Anyone with a brain and a smidgen of imagination (and if you role-play, you have to have it) can change a few details of the pre-generated undead in the Monster Manual and save themselves $30.
You want innovation? Go to Green Ronin.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ghostwalk as a Meta-setting
Comment: Like a lot of newer D&D stuff, Ghostwalk's application in games is up to the player. As a standalone game it is fair, though its ties into the D&D cosmology poses more questions than it answers.
It is best used as a meta-setting the same way that Planescape or Spelljammer are used. Making a few assumptions helps this game truly shine and answer some of the great unanswered questions of the D&D Cosmology:
Assumption 1-
Each prime has a "ghostwalk" leading to a distinct True Afterlife maintained by the gods of their world.
Assumption 2-
Souls that "willingly discorporate" in the True Afterlife are lead into the Well of Souls and out into the Planes.
Assumption 3-
Demihumans everywhere go through the Etherial voyage mentioned in the book, however in most primes the etherial boundary is too thick for ghosts to manifest through sheer will--so they either remain stranded or embrace the seductive power of the Negative Energy Plane into themselves, becoming corrupted into undead forever, even in the True Afterlife.
This resolves a lot of questions. What's the difference between the dead and undead and why do the undead have a connection to the Negative Energy Plane?
With infinite Prime planes, why isn't the flood of souls to the Outer planes neverending?
How do dead folks get to the planes?
If Ghostwalk is it's own cosmology, why does it mention the planes and intrinsically D&D characters like Orcus?
But yeah, Ghostwalk is a lot of fun. The entries on the various cultures are awesome, the listing on the city of Manifest is great. It contains the origins of the Yuan-Ti, which by itself is reason enough to get the book. The authors really put did put some quality effort into this--the writing is very polished and the artwork is very impressive on the whole. The absence of a name for the game world is very strange, as I would like at least a suggestion of what to call the world where this all happens, but otherwise an excellent setting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nicely done!
Comment: Who hasn't felt the sting of pain when a favorite character dies? What to do? Do you make a new character or spend the agonizing hours trying to rebuild the character that just died after suffering the level loss? No more, I say! Just pick up your corpse and keep adventuring. Ghostwalk allows characters to do just that, and in addition provides a well fleshed out setting and ethos for the adventure. I heartily endorse it.
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Title: The Draconomicon (Dungeons & Dragons) by Andy Collins, James Wyatt, Skip Williams ISBN: 0786928840 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 14 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Book of Exalted Deeds (Dungeons & Dragons Supplement) by James Wyatt, Darrin Drader, Christopher Perkins ISBN: 0786931361 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 29 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Complete Warrior (Dungeons & Dragons Accessory) by Andy Collins, David Noonan, Ed Stark ISBN: 0786928808 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 03 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Underdark by Bruce R. Cordell, Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel, Jeff Quick ISBN: 0786930535 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 29 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Unearthed Arcana (Dungeons & Dragons) by Andy Collins, Jesse Decker, David Noonan, Rich Redman ISBN: 0786931310 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 25 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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