Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved

Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved

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By Monte Cook
A full-color hardcover variant player's handbook for all levels
Cover illustration by JP Targete Interior illustrations by Andrew Brase, Mark Brooks, Kari Christensen, Jason Engle, Patrick Keith, Michael Komarck, Eric Lofgren, Jennifer Meyer, Terese Nielsen, Michael Phillippi, James Ryman Sam Wood, and Kieran Yanner

Electronic (PDF) and print editions available now.

Monte Cook’s Arcana Unearthed takes a huge leap forward when the long absent dragons return to wrest from the giants the lands they once ruled.

The "Director's Cut" Edition!

This new variant player’s handbook from 3rd Edition codesigner Monte Cook takes everything that you loved about Arcana Unearthed, gives it a deluxe full-color treatment—then adds in lots of new bonus material!

Discover a new PC race, the dragonlike dracha; a new class, the ritual warrior; new champion types and totem warrior abilities; new prestige classes; combat rites; and dozens of new spells, spell templates, feats, manifestations, equipment, and more.

Then get ready to evolve! Arcana Evolved introduces exciting new storyline elements that evolve naturally from the return of the dragons. Plus, check out evolved versions of all races, new 10th-level spells, and high-level play with characters up to 25th level! Now you can do more with your characters than ever before.

Arcana Evolved holds all the innovative and thrilling material from Monte Cook’s Arcana Unearthed, The Diamond Throne, and the Player’s Guide, updated with errata corrections in one convenient full-color volume This variant player’s handbook, with hundreds of options and rules, can either replace or supplement the official core rules Player’s Handbook to offer fresh excitement and energy to OGL roleplaying.

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Winner of the 2005 Gen Con and EN World RPG Awards gold medal for Best d20 Game.	Winner of the 2005 Gen Con and EN World RPG Awards gold medal for Best Interior Art.

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Errata and Clarifications for Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved These changes are incorporated in the May 2007 update of the Arcana Evolved eBook, but we provide this list for the benefit of those with the hardcover edition....	Digital Adventures Presents: Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds! Now available with FREE new graphics! Digital Adventures is proud to bring Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved variant player's handbook campaign to the Fantasy Grounds Virtual Tabletop software. This electronic product, on sale now, gives you all of the rules and ambiance you need to host or play an Arcana Evolved game online with Fantasy Grounds.
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Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Downloadable Maps! In order to keep the file size of the eBook version of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved down to a manageable (?) 20 mb, we had to compress the maps quite a bit. For those of you who would like the sharpest possible versions of Ed Bourelle's great-looking color Diamond Throne maps in PDF form, we've got them here for you as free downloads at high resolution.	The Test of Time The Test of Time is a very short scenario designed to start off an Arcana Evolved campaign and bring all the player characters together. It is designed for 1st-level characters who do not know each other and just happen to be in the right place at the right time—or, perhaps, the wrong place at the wrong time.
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Character Sheet! What better way to start off your new Arcana Evolved campaign than with an all-new character? To get you going, we're offering a free download of the official Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved character sheet. This is the same sheet you see on pages 424-425 of your book.	Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Now Available Malhavoc Press is pleased to announce the release today of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, the "director's cut" version of 2003's popular Arcana Unearthed variant player's handbook.
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved FAQ Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved FAQ now includes a comprehensive list of all the new material in the "director's cut" of the book.	Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Overview Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved is one weighty tome, as you can perhaps tell from the table of contents below. The new 432-page "director's cut" version of the popular variant player's handbook weighs in at 4 lbs., and it's packed full of updates and bonus material. And, of course, it also contains all the rules and information you need from the book's original edition, The Diamond Throne campaign sourcebook, and the Player's Guide (from our DM's Screen and Player's Guide).
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Art Preview We just got our copies of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved in from the warehouse today, and it looks so great, we just wanted to share a sneak peek with you. This is Malhavoc's first full-color book, so we're especially proud, as you might imagine.	Evolved Levels So, it's Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, right? What's the "evolved" part -- just a cool name? Just to convey the idea that this is the next step in the game's evolution? Well, yes. But there's more to it than that. . . .
Chat Transcript: Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved Last week in our chat room we welcomed designers Monte Cook and Mike Mearls to talk with us about their forthcoming Arcana Evolved books. Thanks to everyone who attended and asked questions! And thanks as well to Conrad Hubbard for sending us this transcript.	10th-Level Spells One of the cool new things in Arcana Evolved is that there are spells for characters above 20th level -- 10th-level spells! This is truly powerful magic, but still appropriate for a balanced campaign at extremely high levels. Included here is a small sampling of the new 10th-level spells you'll find in the book . . .
The Magister This free five-page download by Monte Cook offers a sneak peek at the updated magister character class, including new abilities for levels 20 to 25! Look for Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved coming in print and PDF on Feb. 28!	The Ritual Warrior and Combat Rites Everything in Arcana Unearthed began to come together around the time I realized that a lot of the concepts I was working on dealt with some of the deep, "inner" aspects of people: things like honor, oaths, and a connection to the land.
Combat Rites This is a small sample of 2nd-rank combat rites, usable by Arcana Evolved's new class, the ritual warrior, as well as by mid-level oathsworn and high-level warmains.	Some "New" Spells This free six-page download by Jeffery A. Dobberpuhl presents 10 spells from the core rules System Reference Document (SRD) converted for use with Monte Cook’s Arcana Unearthed or the forthcoming Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved.
The Akashic Here is a preview of the akashic class from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. In this updated version of the popular character class, note the new class abilities for 20th to 25th level, as well as the "Archetypes" section.	25th Level? One new thing about Arcana Evolved is that all the classes go to 25th level rather than 20th level. A lot of people had been asking about "epic" level Arcana Unearthed, and the core "epic" rules didn't fit my conception of high-level Arcana Unearthed very well.
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