Ozzy Osboune perde seu posto de Principe das trevas para Lich King, no comercial da Blizzard do World of Warcraft!!

Como sempre, os comerciais da Blizzard são muito bem feitos!

Veja alguns outros comerciais aqui!!

So, enjoy it!!!

Todos que começam um jogo possuem certas dificuldades inicialmente e vou tentar abordar desde o inicio as principais.

Nesse artigo pretendo tratar do básico, que será:

1. Conectando no jogo
2. Criação de personagem
   • Raças
   • Classes

1. Conectando no jogo

Ao entrar no jogo, você se depara com a tela de login. Você já deverá ter cadastrado sua conta e atualizado seu jogo de acordo com o servidor que irá jogar (farei um tutorial básico de instalação, configuração, etc em outro momento).

Você insere seu login e senha e entra. Na próxima tela, você escolhe qual o tipo de realm você está procurando.

Os servidores podem ser Normal, Player versus Environment (PvE), Player versus Player (PvP), Roleplaying (RP) ou Roleplaying Player versus Player (RPPvP), divididos de acordo com a ênfase na interpretação do personagem e sua interação com o mundo e os outros personagens.

Nessa tela você também escolhe sua localização, para que realms mais pertos de você apareçam na lista. Isso serve para que você tenha menos problemas de conexão pela distância e jogue com pessoas da mesma nacionalidade que você. Na blizzard, brasileiros costumam jogar nos servers Warsong e Gurubashi.

2. Criação de Personagem

Após escolher seu server e realm, você será levado à tela de criação de personagens. Aqui é onde o jogo começa de verdade!

A primeira coisa que você deve escolher é: qual facção você irá jogar? Aqui, suas opções serão: Aliança e Horda.

Nesse momento, a facção vai determinar quais raças você poderá escolher.

PS: As facções não podem se relacionar de maneira alguma in-game. Se você estiver começando com amigos, criem todos personagens na mesma facção ou serão considerados inimigos in-game sem contato algum além de se matarem!

• Raças:

O próximo passo é a escolha da raça. Cada raça possui uma aparência e características distintas tanto em relação a habilidades quanto a pontos de atributos dependendo da classe escolhida. Um resumo das raças:

Alliance

Horde

• Classes:

Após ter escolhido a Raça, você deve escolher a classe. A classe é o que determina quais serão as habilidades principais do seu personagem. Cada classe possui características distintas e são adequadas para cada tipo de sitação do jogo. Como o jogo em sua grande parte foca a organização dos personagens em grupos para atingirem seus objetivos, cada classe possui uma função e nenhuma é descartada.

PS: Não existe melhor classe. Cada uma é útil para uma situação. Ex: Rogues dão um dano alto, mas resistem a menos dano enquanto que warriors dão menos dano mas resistem mais. O jogo por si só já é bem balanceado.

Descubra um pouco sobre cada classe para saber com qual se identifica mais.
• Uma classe voltada ao combate físico, tendo como característica principal a possibilidade de se camuflar, sendo assim ele fica praticamente impossível de ser visto por outros jogadores, enquanto estiver fora de combate. Geralmente utiliza uma adaga em cada mão e tem a capacidade de aplicar vários tipos de venenos no imigo. Utiliza sistema de energy, que é necessária para usar as habilidades da classe e se repõe automaticamente.

• Classe voltada ao combate físico ou proteção de seus companheiros. Pode equipar o tipo de armadura com maior quantidade de defesa (Plate). Utiliza um sistema de Rage para utilizar as habilidades. Conforme o char vai batendo em inimigos e também recebendo dano, ele vai ganhando mais rage para utilizar as habilidades.

• Classe voltada a magia. Pode fazer portais, teleportar, conjurar comida, água e muito mais. Além disso, é a classe com maior poder de AOE (dano de área), ou seja, utiliza magias que acertam vários alvos de uma só vez. Utiliza sistema de Mana para a maioria de suas habilidades.

• Assim como o Mage, o Warlock também é voltado a Magia, mas tem foco na magia negra e maldições. Uma vez amaldiçoada, mesmo que a pessoa vá para longe do alcance do Warlock, ela continua a receber dano. Além disso, o Warlock pode evocar vários tipos de demônios que o auxiliam de várias maneiras. Utiliza sistema de Mana.

• O Hunter pode ser comparado aos Arqueiros de outros jogos, focado no dano em longa distância (Ranged). São especialistas na utilização de Arcos, Espingardas e Bestas. Além disso, o Hunter conta com a ajuda de um animal (pet), que ataca os inimigos e o protege. Utiliza sistema de Mana.

• Classe com foco nas Magias Sagradas. São especialistas em combate físico e na Cura. Podem utilizar vários tipos de armas e escudos. Possuem muitas habilidades de defesa e podem ficar completamente invencíveis por alguns segundos. Possuem um sistema de Auras, que são aprimoramentos para os membros do grupo que estiverem por perto. Assim como os Warriors, podem usar o tipo de armadura mais resistente e com maior absorção de dano físico (Plate). Utiliza sistema de Mana.

• Assim como os Paladinos, os Priests também podem se focar nas Magias Sagradas, mas também podem se especializar na Magia Negra. Enquanto os Paladinos podem ter foco no combate físico, os Priests têm foco apenas nas Magias. Possuem várias Habilidades de suporte e de Ataque. São muito frágeis caso não estejam utilizando suas Magias defensivas e de cura. Utiliza sistema de Mana.

• São líderes espirituais, podem ser comparados aos Pajés. É uma classe hibrida que pode se focar tanto nas magias ofensivas, no combate físico ou até mesmo no suporte. Além disso, contam com um sistema de Totems, que são colocados no chão e dão algum tipo de bônus para o grupo. Utiliza sistema de Mana.

• Druids podem se transformar em animais, dando ao jogador várias formas diferentes de estilo de jogo. Possuem diversas magias de ataque e cura. Enquanto na forma Humanóide, ele pode ser um Curandeiro, ao se transformar em Gato ele passa a ter habilidades semelhantes as de um Rogue. Pode também se transformar em Urso, com grandes quantidades de Armor e Health Points (HP), o que o torna bastante resistente se assemelhando aos Warriors. Possui também outras formas de animais, cada uma com sua característica especial. Enquanto Humanóide: utiliza mana. Forma de Gato: energy. Forma de Urso: Rage.

• Death Knight é a primeira classe “Herói” do jogo, estando disponível somente pra quem tem WOTLK e algum personagem de nível 55. Possuem uma taxa de sobrevivência muito alta, fazendo deles ótimos candidatos a tanks, mesmo que não utilizem escudo. Também contam com auxilio de minions e diseases.
  Talentos: Blood aumenta a capacidade de dano melee, enquanto Frost aumenta a capacidade do Death Knight de receber dano e gerar aggro. Unholy aumenta o poder dos mínions e diseases.
  Tipo de armadura: Plate

Esse vídeo foi criado por um player de WoW (Percula) e retrata uma Rogue invadindo Stormwind para tentar matar a regente. Imperdível!

Este foi o segundo trabalho do criador do vídeo e já apresenta uma qualidade inquestionável.

Assistam agora mesmo:

Saiba todos os detalhes da nova expansão para o World of Warcraft, o Cataclysm! Azeroth totalmente reformulada, fly mounts no mundo todo, novas raças, quests, instances e tudo mais!!

Com a expansão Cataclysm já anunciada pela Blizzard na  Blizzcon, surgiram muitas dúvidas em relação a como vai ser. O intuito desse post é reunir links para a maior parte das informações sobre o assunto que correm por aí.

Essa é a terceira expansão lançada para o WoW. O mapa de Azeroth foi totalmente reformulado com novas áreas e as antigas foram bastante modificadas e agora será possível voar por todo o mapa. Além disso, o nível máximo foi aumentado para 85.

Informações Básicas:

• Data de lançamento: durante 2010
• Level Cap: aumentado para 85
• Novas Raças: Worgen (Aliança), Goblin (Horda)
• Áreas modificadas: Aproximadamente tudo que existia em Azeroth
• Nova profissão secundária: Archaeology
• Novo sistema de talentos: Mastery
• Acréscimo de Guild Talents e Achievements
• Battlegrounds com rate points e novos títulos por honor

Informações Gerais:

• BlizzCon 2009: Cataclysm dungeons
• BlizzCon 2009: Paths of the Titans explained
• BlizzCon 2009: WoW Game Systems panel live blog
• Cataclysm concept art
• Cataclysm race-class combination matrix
• Official Cataclysm FAQ
• Rated battlegrounds and the return of PvP titles
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trailer
• World Events
  • • • In-Game launch event for Cataclysm confirmed

Últimas notícias e análises:

• 24 de agosto até 30 de agosto:
  • • In-Game launch event for Cataclysm confirmed
• Novidades e análises antes do Blizzcon 2009:
  • • Cataclysm easter egg reveals Deathwing’s musical side
    • Cataclysm release date targeted for 2010
• BlizzCon 2009 – Sábado:
  • • Arcane Brilliance: What Cataclysm will mean to mages
    • Cataclysm dungeons
    • Cataclysm, the story so far
    • Class Discussion Panel – Warlock
    • Guild leveling and talents
    • Initial thoughts on the Hunter changes
    • Mastery system and talent trees
    • Paths of the Titans explained
    • Raid Rx: Cataclysmic stat changes for healers
    • Rated battlegrounds and the return of PvP titles
    • The future of tanking
    • Worgen environments
    • WoW Game Systems panel live blog
    • WoW Q&A live blog
• BlizzCon 2009 – Quinta-feira:
  • • Archaeology and Path of the Titans
    • Cataclysm concept art
    • Cataclysm race-class combination matrix online
    • Cataclysm – Zone video
    • Goblin backstory and zone info
    • High quality Cataclysm map
    • Live blogging the Cataclysm new starter zones
    • Official Cataclysm FAQ
    • Opening Ceremony Live Blog
    • Q&A with Cory Stockton
    • Stats to be vastly simplified
    • Worgen animation
    • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm announced
    • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trailer
    • World of Warcraft Preview Panel live blog

Lore:

• A discussion in defense of the new race/class combinations
• All the World’s a Stage: More possibilities for Goblins and Worgen in Cataclysm
• BlizzCon 2009: Cataclysm, the story so far
• Know Your Lore: Deathwing
• Know Your Lore: Gilneas
• Know Your Lore: Goblin
• Know Your Lore: Worgen
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trailer
  

Rumores e boatos pré-divulgação pela Blizzard:

• Races leaked
• New race / class combinations found
• MMO-Champion posts expansion details
• WoW Comic #22 preview
• A discussion of the new race and class combinations
• Halloween masks reveal new details
• Blizzard files Cataclysm trademark

Mudanças nas Profissões:

• BlizzCon 2009: Archaeology and Path of the Titans\
• BlizzCon 2009: Insider Trader: Cataclysm professions
• BlizzCon 2009: WoW Game Systems panel live blog

Raças:

• Goblin
  • • Cataclysm race-class combination matrix
    • Goblin backstory and zone info
    • Know Your Lore: Goblin
    • BlizzCon 2009: Live blogging the Cataclysm new starter zones
• Worgen
  • • Cataclysm race-class combination matrix
    • BlizzCon 2009: Live blogging the Cataclysm new starter zones
    • Know Your Lore: Gilneas
    • Know Your Lore: Worgen
    • Worgen animation
    • Worgen environments

Informações sobre a data de lançamento:

• Data de lançamento: previsto para 2010
• Últimas informações sore o assunto: August 23rd, 2009

Mudanças nos Talentos:

• BlizzCon 2009: Guild leveling and talents
• BlizzCon 2009: Mastery system and talent trees
• BlizzCon 2009: The future of tanking
• BlizzCon 2009: WoW Game Systems panel live blog
• Raid Rx: Cataclysmic stat changes for healers
• Stats to be vastly simplified
• Totem Talk: Revamped stats in Cataclysm and Dwarven/Goblin Shamans

Áreas e mapas:

• High quality Cataclysm map
• BlizzCon 2009: Cataclysm – Zone video
• BlizzCon 2009: Live blogging the Cataclysm new starter zones

É isso aí. Uma coletânea de links abrangendo praticamente tudo sobre o Cataclysm. Enjoy it!

Foi anunciado pelo próprio Sam Raimi (escritor de O Resgate do Soldado Ryan e diretor de Spider-Man, entre outros) que já estão trabalhando no novo filme referente ao jogo World of Warcraft (WoW).

A Blizzard já havia feito um acordo com a Legendary Pictures em 2006 para a produção do filme. A Staff conta ainda com Charles Roven, produtor de The Dark Knight formando assim, um grande elenco. E como tudo indica, se o filme for um sucesso, podemos esperar por uma continuação, mostrando diferentes partes da história desse magnífico jogo nas telas do cinema.

Citado pelo diretor Sam Raimi: “Queremos ser realmente fiéis ao jogo, (no que diz respeito) à Horda, à Aliança, à mitologia e aos arquétipos conferidos na aventura”.  Ele diz ainda que precisa conhecer as bases do jogo para escolher quais as melhores cenas e cenários a serem retratados no filme. Para isso, conta com a ajuda de Robert Rodat, que está escrevendo uma história nova que se passa no universo WoW, como se fosse uma das aventuras presentes no game.

Com certeza teremos aqueles que dirão que transformar um game com a imensidão de detalhes e de história como o wow em filme é suicídio, e aqueles que estão entusiasmados com a chegada do novo filme, que deverá coincidir com a lançamento da nova expansão: “The Cataclysm”.

O filme provavelmente será baseado no jogo World of Warcraft e não na história base do Warcraft em si. Sabemos que o WoW é completamente baseado no Warcraft mas não podemos esquecer que o warcraft parou no Frozen Throne e o WoW mostrou a história de uma maneira um pouco diferente.

De acordo com o Blizzard’s Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams, o orçamento do filme ultrapassa os $100 milhões de dólares.

Para mais informações sobre o que rola sobre o filme, visitem: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/news#ni1076256

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Read a couple days ago that there are hints to a new type of quest for patch 3.3. Quests to go along with raids much like the daily dungeons we do now only with weekly lockout periods from quest givers.

I think it’s a great idea but for me personally this may mean PUGing more raids. I have still yet been able to make a guild run and complete any of the level 80 raids in the game. The only raid I have completed was Naxx and that was with a PUG a friend had put together. So that means for me to get my hands on some of the new badges I may be running with some unfamiliar faces.

Edit; We have downed OS with 0 Drakes up in 25 and 10 man

Zeus

açlığımı giderdim sonunda.. 2 aydır oynamıyordum a.k. oyununu.. nefret etti karşı takımdakiler benden ama umrumda mı?? hayır!! ezdim pis koydum ağlattım a.k. “noobları”.. oh be..

,etnikbarzo..

Phù, thi anh văn xong rồi khỏe quá, mà thi làm bài có đc gì đâu nà. Nhưng chả sao, miễn thi xong là khỏe à, mặc kệ cái kết quả, để đó tính sau.

Thi anh văn xong rồi, 2 ngày nữa phải lo học tuần sinh hoạt công dân nữa. Tất nhiên là phải học cho đầy đủ vì học kỳ này trở về sau là phải cố gắng hết mình, tuyệt đối không đc lơi lỏng, buông xuôi môn học nào, môn nào cũng phải học cho tốt, nhất là mấy môn chuyên ngành càng phải học tốt hơn nữa. Nói là phải làm, không đc để người ta nói mình ” nói một đằng làm một nẻo “ . Bắt đầu lên lịch học thôi.

Even though Cataclysm is a year away, it’s easy to get carried away with the speculation of the new expansion. But as we get closer I’m sure the hype will grow.

For the first time Blizzard is going to release an expansion that feels like an entirely new game. For $40 you’ll be able to play in a world that has changed dramatically from the previous 6 years. If your a hardcore player at all you want to start a new Goblin or Worgen just to see the new starting zones, and if it’s anything like the death knight starting zones then that alone will be worth the 40 bucks you’ll have to shell out for the game.

But what about the new players who have just picked up the game. Casual players leveling, enjoying the world of Azeroth. What if say this player reaches 30 around late summer early fall of next year and all of the sudden the landscape changes. Every zone is different, every city is different and all the sudden tons of players are running around the old world. If you ask me this would be overwhelming for a casual player who just picked up the game. Someone who still hasn’t visited the Outlands or even bothered to buy BC or WotLK. What happens to these players?

Blizzard’s attempts at speeding up the leveling process is an attempt to make all of these players feel welcome in a world torn apart. But as far as us who have been with the game for multiple years now they are creating an entirely new world for us to enjoy and we should embrace it by leveling new characters in a place that we will once again be noobs.

At least for a couple months…

Yeah, cool guys really don’t. Even when they’re Mark Wahlberg.

It’s Friday night in my country, and I got nothing better to do than posting an update for my blog. I mean, that is something special, considering the great irregularity in which I keep you up to date about my nerdy hobbies and my internal workings. So what happened in the last days?

I was quite busy on my World of Warcraft character, farming and buying Runecloth to boost my reputation with the Darkspear Trolls, and now I can call myself proudly “Akinya of Sen’jin”! The title was long overdue and is anything but special, but I’m still proud of it. Next project: Argent Champion. I’m not looking forward to all the Scholo / Strat runs…*sigh*

In other news, I’m getting more and more impatient during my wait for Champions Online. Cryptic is teasing me and all the other sad people who didn’t win a beta key in one of the many free-give aways with more and more “candy”, like previews of different Power Sets, interviews about Nemesis and Omega system, and other very diabolic tools purely designed to increase the already cosmic hype about this digital entertainment creation. Stop doing that, Cryptic, or I’m sending you the bill of my psychological treatment.

Meanwhile, somewhere else in MMO-country, BioWare is starting to turn on the marketing machine for Star Wars: The Old Republic. With appearances on the PAX and the Gamescom (where I also will be, yay!), BioWare is hoping to increase attention for its newest product in the Old Republic timeline of Star Wars. Someone should phone their CEO and tell him that every sentient MMO-fan is already watching this product more carefully than his own child. Still, BioWare announced gameplay demo’s and the earlier named conventions, and I hope that there will be enough pods at the Gamescom, so I don’t have to stand in line behind some fat, stinking Star Wars freak who keeps reciting quotes from some secret DVD bonus content, just to impress all the other nerds in a ten yard radius, hoping a girl who digs his fetish will hear it and lay down with him beside their Midichlorian-powered fire, while I have to endure this all waiting for my turn to rip people apart with a lightsaber. If there’s a God, such a scenario will not happen.

Furthermore, my brother got bored of pew-pewing people as a vacuum-cleaner-gun-wearing bovine hero, and decided to pimp our Wii collection with Wii Sports Resorts and some new Wii MotionPlus stuff. I promise a review of the game at the end of this weekend, but from the short moments I’ve spent with it, I can tell you that bashing people with a foam sword was never so funny as in Sports Resorts.

And lastly, I’ve completed week 2 of the hundredpushups.com – program. Coming Sunday, I will do my first exhaustion test to see how far my tiny biceps has increased in kinetic force, and on what level the program will continue for me. Excitement abound, and you will read all about it here!

Well, that’s it for the Friday update. Make sure to come back next Sunday for the next update, and I wish you all a great weekend. Be careful on the alcohol!

Signed,

Aki

What is a Lich ?  Well, in my old-school days of fantasy role playing (RPG’s), a Lich was a very scary form of undead. Usually a very powerful magician whom thru magical or demonic means has preserved it’s life after death.

I doodled this a little while back, it clutches a familiar staff, has attachments to jewelry, and wears the trophy of his former rival and master on its headdress for all to see.

I live near Litchfield road here in Surprise, AZ.  I drive by wondering which field is the ‘Lich-field’ so i can avoid it.  :-) Strange name for a road in my opinion.

Well I have to say that the World of Warcraft is officially boring me. My current “casual raid” guild has basically died, im lucky if there are 2 other people online at the moment. Sure i have new shiny things like the argent tournament to do, why not try some heroic 5 mans you ask? I’m definitely geared well enough to tank them, i have lots of experience in every paladin spec since I’ve played the game since my server (Terenas-EU) first started several years ago. But after some bad experiences i gave up on heroics.

An example, I was asked to tank a Heroic: CoT instance, i had done it a few times on normal mode so i knew the basics of the instance, and we wiped on the first undead wave… why? Because the healer didn’t heal, i thought ok could be a one off incident, and so we went back in. Then we did OK-ish till a few mobs later when i died again, due to lack of healing. When we got back again, once again i died almost straight away again, which caused my sword and trouser slot items to break… before going into the instance (like i do every time) i checked my gear, there was no need to repair it before i went in there, and yet they are now broken. Suddenly everything becomes my fault. My gear broke so my health and defense was lower than it normally was so they were saying things like “that health is a bit low for here…” “that’s not enough def” i mentioned several times that my gear broke and all i got was “you didn’t repair before coming here?”. At this point i knew the group was a lost cause… i tried to argue my case of NO HEALING but they would not listen. The only person who stood up for me was somebody from my guild who was also in the group. THEY ASKED ME to come, they thought i was perfectly fine beforehand, and now they blame me because I’m the guy they picked up.

So I gave up on heroics there and then, i hadn’t done pvp since wotlk was released so i really dont know how to get back into the game with that. With the easily obtainable money from the Argent Tourny i could easily get dual specs and some simple pvp gear from the AH, but then i would be far behind everyone else and get murdered a lot. I used to love pvp, now it just confuses me slightly. To me it just used to be have fun and kill people, get gear rewards as bonus. I still have my Master Sergeant title from pre-tbc, which i parade around a lot… although i do use the Elder title quite often now as well. Now with arenas and stuff its become more of a sport, and therefore more stressful. I did have fun in pre wrath arena skirmishes. For one day i played with a NE hunter, and we were both geared OK, i had about half of the retribution merciless gladiator set, and when we saw a fully geared rogue and warrior emerge from the other gates we each shat 3 bricks. But we won… because we both knew EXACTLY how our classes worked. But i digress, i simply do not know what to do in WoW anymore. If anybody actually reads this… any ideas?

Montag nach den ersten Playoffspielen. Viele Playoffnachberichte, einige Transfergerüchte, eine Clubhymne und ein vortreffliches Baldi-Interview zur Euroleague. Eine kommentierte Lese- und Hörauswahl:

Von den ganzen Spielberichten ist vor allem die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hervorzuheben, die in der Nachbereitung des ALBA-Paderborn Duells ein tolles Ense-Feature bringt.

In Lich gab es ein Charity-Game mit vielen alten Bekannten. Vom Ex-Braunschweiger Markus Wedler bis zu launischer Moderation durch Stefan Koch. Die Gießener Allgemeine berichtet.

Auch wenn Stefan Koch wohl als Coach verfügbar wäre, die gewöhnlich gut informierte Braunschweiger Zeitung verrät: Ex-Albatross Sebastian Sepp Machowski steht in der engeren Wahl. Mit Ex-Albatross Braun holt als Nachfolger des Ex-Albacoach Mutapcic wieder einen Albatross… Farmteam !

Gesungen wird in Oldenburg. Die Hymne der EWE Baskets ist online. Beste Dorfdiscoschlagerqualität. Hab ich mich verhört, oder kommt Oldenburg nicht ein einziges Mal drin vor? Nicht dass da ein Umzug vorbereitet wird

Aber den Kracher des Tages bringt Ballineurope mit Hintergrundinfos dazu, warum ALBA Berlin keine Euroleague-Wildcard bekommen hat: Die fehlende TV-Präsenz in Deutschland wars. Naja, und die Tatsache, dass ALBA seit 2003 nix gerissen hatte… Marco Baldi teilt aus: In Richtung BBL, in Richtung Frankreich, in Richtung Spanien.

Bottom Line: Wir brauchen Fernsehen, um unseren Sport interessanter zu machen und auch, um europäisch am Verhandlungstisch mitspielen zu können. Jaja, Herr Pommer pflegt in Vertretung der Ligamehrheit den Turnhallenchic und die Mittelmäßigkeit. Aber Hauptsache die BBL ist spannend, wenn sich auch niemand die Spieler merken kann. Was ist eigentlich die Position der BBL zur Euroleague-Reform? Ich seh Jan Pommer immer auf den Fotos, aber nie ein Statement.

Hello loyal viewers, I’m finally back and damn to schedules, I’m gonna surprise you with the reviews from now on! Today we’ll be looking at Undead, one of the oft-nicknamed “one word product” series by AEG. As you can guess, it’s 128 pages on nothing but undead. Let’s dig in then, shall we?

Chapter 1

Our first chapter, “That Which Cannot Live, That Which Cannot Die”, is in its majority a philosophical discussion about the religious connotations of undead. While it’s interesting fluff, it’s also a bit unnerving seeing someone fill up droves of  pages discussing whether an undead’s soul is corroded or whether or not a vampire can get into heaven. Don’t worry, though, that’s not the entirety of the chapter. There’s an interesting start to non-philosophical fluff with rumors of a city entirely run by undead, as well as a little look at the less structured “packs” of the ghouls. Did you know that they have a ritualized feeding group?

Chapter 2

This chapter is where we get the meat of the game, starting out with skill uses. The first is Craft (Autopsy). While the rules are very nice, I must ask…why the hell is Craft the skill used? Wouldn’t it be better under a Knowledge skill use, or even an inverse of Heal if we want to go out on a limb? Speaking of Heal, we get rules for using Heal to patch up the undaed (o….kaaaay, weird, but I guess it takes all kinds) as well as Knowledge (Religion) as a way to learn proper burial ceremonies that prevent animate dead from working as easily on the body(s) buried. Next come the feats…I bet you’re expecting some poisons, necromancy boons, and such, right? WRONG!! The feats are very…Clericy, to say the least. Other than Sixth Sense (which lets you “see” incorporeal undead), all of the feats are dedicated to buffing warding and smiting of the undead. Maybe our old friend prestige class can help rectify that, mayhaps?

Champion of the Dead: This 10-level prestige class is the ideal undead, the undead’s undead…he commands with an iron fist, both inspiring his legions with morale bonuses as well as warding himself from attacks by lesser undead enemies and able to negate a Cleric’s turning. This is a really nasty Cleric-killer NPC class that would be brutal on a lich or other powerful sorcerous undead.

Chirurgeon: This 10-level prestige class isn’t for the undead…heck, it isn’t even for evil (it can be any nongood, but that includes neutral stances too). A chirurgeon specializes in mending wounds of the undead, applying enhancing grafts onto the living, and creating a type of greater flesh golem that only they can craft. The class’s final ability, being able to transfer a brain into a flesh golem and revive it in its new shell via a lightning spell, is an obvious homage to Doctor Frankenstein. I like this class…I can see it having a lot of story potential, as well as giving good reason for utilizing the chirurgic horror template from the Book of Templates Deluxe Edition (but that’s a review for another day… ).

Dying: This 10-leveller requires being stricken by an undead disease such as mummy rot to enter into. In exchange for levels of stupidly strong resistance to fear and the undead, the finale is….death. Yep. You reach level 10 in this class, you die (albeit sometimes rising as an undead….at the GM’s discretion. Mwuahahahaha). This is definitely a roleplaying opportunity class.

Exorcist: The Exorcist can banish possessing incorporeal undead, place auto-turn undeads on monuments and holy sites via wards, and can entrap the undead in prisons of holy symbols. Standard stuff, really.

Faith Hunter: The Faith Hunter focuses on vampires and vampires in specific. Her abilities are keyed into them in particular, class features including being immune to a vampire’s draining attack due to having “holy blood” granted by her deity, can turn vampires as per a Cleric, can compel a vampire in gaseous form back into corporeality, and has a progression in the sneak at…err… “Stake Attack” special quality. While this is a niche class, it ties into the pop culture fascination with vampire hunters well, so I can see it  getting use in vamp-heavy adventures.

Hunter of the Fallen: Yet another undead fighter class. This one gets no fancy turning or shiny lights, but instead gets the ability to innately sense and track the undead, spell resistance against unholy magic, immunity to fear effects, and cannot be raised as an undead. Of all the hunter classes, I like this one the most, because they have no paladin stigma. Hell, they cannot have a lawful alignment, so they certainly can’t have a paladin stigma.

Knight of the Eternal Eye: These folks take “undying devotion” to a whole new level. They are so unswayable in their loyalty that nothing can break those bonds. For class abilities, the knight becomes undead, gains vampire, shadow, and ghost-like abilities, and has to constantly fight evil because his undeath “cost him his immortal soul”. This reiterates the book’s main flaw…it is obsessed with hammering “undead are evil no matter what, ‘kay?” down your throat. I disagree with this mantra…anyone remember the positive-energy mummy pharaohs from the earliest editions? I miss the positive-energy mummies.

Paladin of the Pale: These fellows are prestige paladins that follow a goodly god of death that hates the eeeebil undead. Yeah, I don’t care to go into more rehashing for the description here.

Puppet: This NPC prestige class essentially turns the taker into the familiar of a big undead such as a vampire lord or lich. This is an interesting alternative to spawn, since this being is still human and as such doesn’t automatically respond on the heroes’ “undead radar”. For a less unsavory undead master, I imagine a “Puppet” would be the undead’s envoy to the living.

Raider: These fellows are essentially prestige rogues with sneak attacking exchanged for the ability to sense living things and scrying. What does this have to do with the undead? …I dunno, I was hoping you’d tell me.

Risen: See Knight of the Eternal Eye. Change it up a bit but leave the whole “succumb to evil” part, add it to non-lawfuls, rinse, lather, repeat.

Sacred Theurgist: These people study necromancy in order to combat it by “unmaking” undead. Oh, and they can summon undead without being as vile as the book insinuates necromancers are because they “respectfully” summon them. Yeah. Whatever. *Rolls eyes*

Unbeating Heart: Vile assassin-cleric. Yawn.

Wasteland Druid: Eeeeeebil druids who are considered blasphemers because they feel the balance between life, death, and undeath must be preserved. They can wildshape into undead and their animal companion transforms into a wight version of itself. This could be an interesting class if the “always Neutral Evil blasphemer” stigma is removed.

The chapter ends with an uninspiring “hunter’s kit” section. Sp far, so good and bad mixed…

Chapter 3

This chapter first deals with the Lords of Gehenna. Here we get the big “explanation” on why undead-creation is evil…the Lords of Undeath are evil themselves, and since they taught necromancy to humanoids it is aberrant and evil. The lords of death and undead include Demortus the Eternal (lord of the undead), Gnawbone the Deatheater (lord of ghouls), Lochai the Reaper (guess) Rei Sul Vadoch (lord of “good and natural” death), Necronius (lord of vampires), Nercury (guide of the dead), Selina (lady of incorporeal undead and the only non-evil undead deity), and Shofayt (judge of the dead). Plague, Rot, Rulership, Spirit, and Undead fill out the new clerical domains that are garnted by some of the above deities. I won’t go into the spelsl and magic items too much, but suffice to say you can probably guess that most are either necromancy or anti-undead evocations.

Chapters 4 and 5

Chapter 4 deals with undead archetypes/stereotypes. This is a fairly nice chapter, since it does have some non-evil examples (such as “guardian mummy” as a concept) and offers advice for undead PCs, but I won’t go into too much detail…that would spoil the fun of you getting to read it yourself. Chapter 5 expands on these ideas with campaign concepts for including undead, from classic fantasy to Medieval to Renaissance era to even the present day. Yes, this book gives ideas for modern-day undead usage. Isn’t that kind of them? The locations section is sadly short, though. It pretty much consists of “urbania, ruins, wilderness…there you go. Nothing more partitioned.”

Chapter 6

This chapter is essentially a love letter to the creation process for liches and mummies. Nothing much more I can say than that.

Final Thoughts

Is this book worth your buy? Well, considering that it’s a third the price of, say, WoTC’s Libris Mortis but bordering on 130 pages, I’d say that’s a maybe. Is it without flaws? Naw. The book focuses way too much on making undead “vile stabbity stabbity cleric make shiny lights!” and not enough on the undead themselves. There are no new monsters or monster templates, which takes me aback for a book on undead that seems to tout itself as being THE book of undead. Overall, it’s more of a book you can springboard off of than a book you can use all on its own. 7/10.