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The mention of or reference to any company or product in rhese pages is not a challenge ro rhe trademark or copyright concerned. 'd20 System' and the 'd20 System' logo are Trademarks owned by Wiiards of rhe Coast and are used according to the terms of the d20 System License version 1.0. A copy of this License can be found at www.wiianls.com. "Dungeons & Dragons® and Wi:arcis of the Coast® are Registered Trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, and are used with Permission." PRINTED IN CANADA RELICS & , R1TUXL S 2 : LOS T Preface By Monte Cook When we heard that White Wolf Publishing was simply a book of ideas — wonderful, innovative, and i forming Sword and Sorcery Studio to publish d20 creative ideas. material, we knew that the d20 "experiment" was a Relics & Rituals 2: Lost Lore introduces astrological success. If a publisher of such regard, with such a effects, cabal ism, and miracles into your game. You'll successful record of its own would begin to produce find tattooed witches, serpentine assassins, and time- i d20 material, it not only proved that the task was mastering sages in these pages, as well as new spells for worth doing, but that it was worth doing well. Back every spellcasting class. Of course, the book offers a in those early days, when I still worked for Wizards of plethora of new magic items and artifacts for your PCs the Coast, we were thrilled at the whole prospect of to discover or for NFC villains to wield against rhem. quality material coming out for our game, but created What's more, this tome covers not only magic, but by someone else. It barkened hack to the early days of psionics, as the ancient legacy of a time-lost race. A D&D and the Judge's Guild. Often, true innovation variant secondary disciplines table created by Psionics idoesn't come from die market leader — the "big Handbook author Bruce Cordell offers a new take on boys" — but from a smaller company. While a larger acquiring powers. Fans of psionics should be thrilled publisher might want to (might have to) remain to see new psionic prestige classes, including the evil, conservative to hang onto a larger audience, smaller shadow-dwell ing cultists of the shade, and the insane companies could risk more daring moves, and thus warped ones. more original creations. In my campaign, when the player characters en- When Relics & Rituals was published, it didn't set counter a new character, they never know what to the bar fordZO quality, it created it. It presented great expect. What strange, obscure sorcery has this indi- and wondrous creations — imaginative new spells, vidual come across? What new sorts of magic irems interesting and well-conceived prestige classes and does she wield? Is she a member of some arcane exciting new magic items, artifacts and rules. More society that has taught her new, fantastic abilities? than a year later, it remains a hallmark of the d20 This feel ing of excitement is part of why I think the industry that has grown in its wake. players keep coming back from week to week. Not This book, a sequel of sorts, you might say, simply only for the surprise of what comes next, but for the offers more of the same. That, however, would be a discovery of what they themselves will find as they short-sighted observation. delve deeper and deeper into the fantasy world. If you're a music fan, you never stop trying new While I come up with most of these new features on music. No movie fan ever says "I've seen all the my own, the real secret I have is my collect ion of idea movies I need to see." No fantasy RPG player, then, troves like Reiics & Rituals 2: Lost Lore. Although should ever find himself or herself in the mindset of much of what you find here seems deeply rooted in not being interested in new ideas for magic. Introduc- the Scarred Lands (an imaginative and innovative ing new spells and magic items into your game is like setting in its own right), you'll find virtually all of it trying new foods, or traveling to new places.

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