Of all the supplements in the immediate future…

I wrote most of this post before I got my hands on Manual of the Planes, so it’s a little outdated and the language reflects that. Still, I plan to talk more about Manual of the Planes soon, so this’ll make for a good segue. :P

Out of all of the supplements I’ve read, seen, or heard about so far, Manual of the Planes is the one that excites me the most overall. Here’s why.

Mercykillers article is up

I spent some time reading the Factol’s Manifesto last night, having forgotten that today the Mercykiller stuff comes out yet. I can’t post much since I’ve got to leave for work momentarily, but of course I made time to peruse the article.

Quick thoughts!

The Druid: dang, I want to play this

I was pokin’ around, looking at the druid (sub. req.). It’s a very cool take on a controller, possibly better at it than the wizard, and the way they implemented beast form stuff is also neat. Given these powers and abilities, I think that druids are pretty much guaranteed to have interesting choices to make in character creation and combat.

Sad times at WotC

I heard about the layoffs through this month’s Ampersand column (sub. req.). I noticed that, f’rex, Dave Noonan’s name wasn’t in the list of designers, but failed to read anything into it. Call me naive, I guess.

It wasn’t until Jonathan Drain’s latest round of links popped up on my feed reader that I dug deeper. (Aaaaand I just noticed that this update happened to include me. Wow. Thx, Jonathan!)

Martial Power first impressions

I got my grubby little mitts on a copy of Martial Power, and I had some time to peruse it. Here’s what I think so far!

For the most part, I think this is a great supplement. But I think I’m already running into supplement fatigue.