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Chris Lloyd reviewed Targen's Tome: A Master's Guide to Magic for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. [1] Lloyd comments that "Targen's Tome is an interesting and informative read for new Magic players, but the rest of us will be looking for more hard and fast advice on effective decks and card combinations than is offered here."
Viktor Coble listed the entire Complete series - including Complete Adventurer, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, Complete Arcane, Complete Champion, and Complete Mage - as #9 on CBR's 2021 "D&D: 10 Best Supplemental Handbooks" list, stating that "These books took a deep dive into specific class types. They expanded on what it meant to be that ...
Viktor Coble listed the entire Complete series - including Complete Adventurer, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, Complete Arcane, Complete Champion, and Complete Mage - as #9 on CBR's 2021 "D&D: 10 Best Supplemental Handbooks" list, stating that "These books took a deep dive into specific class types. They expanded on what it meant to be that ...
The flexibility of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game rules means that Dungeon Masters (DM) are free to create their own fantasy campaign settings.For those who wanted a pre-packaged setting in which to play, TSR, Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and other publishers have created many settings in which D&D games can be based; of these, the Forgotten Realms, an epic fantasy world, has been one of ...
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 ...
Mage: The Ascension, 2nd Edition was given an 8/10 by Arcane's Adam Tinworth, who called it "good for those who enjoy involved and challenging games." He noted that while it could be difficult for new players to grasp the game's background, develop their style of magic, or figure out how the magic worked; the gameplay system itself would be ...
Odyssey was a poorly received set. [5] Mark Rosewater, the lead designer for Odyssey, claimed that the set was the one from which he learnt the most as a designer, as it was the set in which he made his biggest mistakes. [5] Rosewater went into the Odyssey design deciding he wanted to challenge notions of card advantage. Looking back on this he ...
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 ...