Complete Arcane
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Complete Arcane is a supplemental rulebook for the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. It expands upon and replaces an earlier soft-cover rulebook entitled Tome and Blood. It presents additional rules and advice for the creation and use of character classes which specialize in arcane (as opposed to divinely-inspired) magic. Arcane magic, within the framework of the Dungeons & Dragons game system, represents magic that is learned through research or inherent power. It also provides a catchall for anything that doesn't fit into Complete Adventurer, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, or Complete Psionic.
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[edit] New Classes
The Complete Arcane introduces three new base classes
[edit] Warlock
Closer to a sorcerer than a wizard, the Warlock has been given supernatural powers. Either he or his ancestors made a deal with a supernatural being. A warlock has an innate magical ability called the eldritch blast, a damaging spell-like ability which improves as he increases in level. Instead of spells, warlocks gain a limited number of invocations, spell-like abilities with a distinctively sinister flavour.
[edit] Warmage
Warmages take the concept of "magical artillery" to its extreme. They specialize in direct-damage spells and can wear light armour without penalty to their spellcasting. Though they cast spells like a sorcerer, they have a very limited list of spells they can cast.
[edit] Wu Jen
Wu jen are arcane spellcasters with a distinct Oriental flavour. Wu Jen specialize in the casting of elemental spells. The five elements of Wu Jen magic are wood, fire, water, earth, and metal.
[edit] Prestige Classes
Prestige classes are mainly updates from Tome & Blood.
- The Acolyte of the skin: forges a pact with demons or devils through bonding of a skin of a fiend to his own. The acolye will eventually become an Outsider.
- The Alienist is mage who studies & summons creatures beyond normal understanding, eventually becoming an Outsider.
- The Mindbender focuses on charms and compulsions.
- The Wild mage is a master of chaotic magic.
- The Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil can call up barriers of prismatic power, gaining the ability to produce a different layer of prismatic wall each level.
[edit] Feats
Complete Arcane also introduces a number of metamagic feats and several others based on magic, including the Mage Slayer feat tree, which makes a character more dangerous to arcane casters.
[edit] Magic Items
Magic items include variant forms for potions and scrolls such as ceramic tiles that are broken to cause a spell effect instead of liquids that must be consumed, as well as spellbook materials for the discerning (or paranoid) wizard.
[edit] Campaigns
The last chapter of the book details how arcane magic can affect a campaign world, including the uses and abuses of Enchantment spells, flight, teleportation, and invisiblity, and how nonmagical people would react to bards, sorcerers, wizards, and warlocks.
| Dungeons & Dragons Core Rule Books | |
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| Player's Handbook | Dungeon Master's Guide | Monster Manual | |
| Dungeons & Dragons Supplemental Source Books | |
| Book of Exalted Deeds | Book of Vile Darkness | Complete Adventurer | Complete Arcane | Complete Divine | Complete Mage | Complete Psionic | Complete Warrior | Deities & Demigods | Draconomicon | Dragon Magazine | Dungeon Magazine | Dungeon Master's Guide II | Epic Level Handbook | Expanded Psionics Handbook | Fiend Folio | Frostburn | Heroes of Battle | Heroes of Horror | Libris Mortis | Magic of Incarnum | Manual of the Planes | Monster Manual II III IV | Oriental Adventures | Planar Handbook | Player's guide to Faerûn | Player's Handbook II | Races of Destiny | Races of Stone | Races of the Wild | Sandstorm | Stormwracked | Tome of Battle | Tome of Magic | Unearthed Arcana | Weapons of Legacy | Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss | |
| Pre-3E adventure modules | 3E/3.5 adventure modules | |
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