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Sandstorm: Mastering the Perils of Fire and Sand (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement) Hardcover – March 1, 2005

by Bruce R. Cordell (Author), Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes (Author), J.D. Wiker (Author)

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A complete guide to playing D&D in arid wastelands.

This beautifully illustrated supplement continues a series of releases that focus on how the environment can affect D&D gameplay in every capacity. Sandstorm™ contains rules on how to adapt to hazardous hot and arid weather conditions, such as navigating desert terrain and surviving in fierce heat or harsh weather. There are expanded rules for environmental hazards and manipulation of hot weather elements, as well as new spells, feats, magic items, and prestige classes. New monsters associated with deserts and wastelands are included, as well as variants on current monsters. Sandstorm provides enough adventure material included for months of gameplay.

AUTHOR BIO: Bruce R. Cordell, an Origins-award-winning author, has designed over 30 game titles, including the Expanded Psionics Handbook™. He also co-authored Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead™, the Planar Handbook™, the Epic Level Handbook™, and Underdark™.
AUTHOR BIO: Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes is an editor for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. She works primarily on the Dungeons & Dragons® Miniatures line but has edited various roleplaying game books. She
co-authored Savage Species™.
AUTHOR: JD Wiker is currently freelancing while also working as president of The Game Mechanics, a d20 design studio. Some of JD’s recent titles include d20 Future™, the Power of the Jedi Sourcebook™, the Star Wars® Hero’s Guide™, and the Galactic Campaign Guide™.

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224 pages
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English
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8.59 x 0.71 x 11.15 inches
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Wizards of the Coast
Publication date

March 1, 2005
ISBN-10

078693655X
ISBN-13

978-0786936557
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BRUCE R. CORDELL, an Origins-award-winning author, has designed over 30 game titles, including the Expanded Psionics Handbook™. He also co-authored Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead™, the Planar Handbook™, the Epic Level Handbook™, and Underdark™.

JENNIFER CLARKE-WILKES is an editor for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. She works primarily on the Dungeons & Dragons® miniatures line but has edited various roleplaying game books. She also co-authored Savage Species™.

JD WIKER is a freelance game designer and president of The Game Mechanics, a d20 publishing company. He has co-authored numerous roleplaying game products for Wizards of the Coast, Inc., including the Planar Handbook ISBN: 0-7869-3654-1.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wizards of the Coast; First Edition (March 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 078693655X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786936557
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.59 x 0.71 x 11.15 inches

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JD Wiker
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Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, JD Wiker is a writer and game designer with over forty roleplaying game titles to his credit. After working as a designer for Seattle-based Wizards of the Coast, JD moved to the San Diego area and worked as an Intellectual Properties content manager and game designer for Upper Deck Entertainment. He relocated to the Washington D.C. area in 2008 to work on Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online MMORPG, then returned to Seattle in 2010 to work as lead writer for Runic Games, the design studio responsible for Torchlight.
After leaving Wizards of the Coast, JD helped found the d20 System design studio The Game Mechanics (www.thegamemechanics.com), while also freelancing for Wizards of the Coast and Paizo Publishing.
He currently lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Keri.
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Bruce R. Cordell authored books for Dungeons & Dragons over the course of 4 editions (2nd Edition through 5th Edition D&D). These days, he’s a senior designer for Monte Cook Games, LLC designing Numenera, Gods of the Fall, and The Strange. Also a novel author, his credits include several titles set in the Forgotten Realms. Bruce’s tenth novel, Myth of the Maker, is just now available from Angry Robot Books.
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Cody

Definitely Worth the Money

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2015

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This entire series of supplemental rules is definitely useful to anyone looking to play a lot of D&D in a specific environment. Really, though, most of my campaigns only touch upon the desert and I still found this book wonderful. I found the information within chosen with both a mind to flavour and game balance. Perhaps just as importantly, though, Sandstorm is enjoyable to read. I might just be me, but I didn't find this book at all dull when reading it.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015

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Yes this book is very helpful. My husband and I have been playing Dungeans and Dragons since the early 80's. When we seen this book come out at the bookstore we had it on our wish list, due to my factory closeing we could not get it at that time. then it was gone. We had forgotten the name of it but I had remembered the cover picture.

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Good material, but a lot of derivative stuff

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2005

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First, the obvious. This book, being the second in the series of Environmental supplements, follows the same format as the first book, Frostburn. It covers the environment, new races, classes and feats, equipment, magic, monsters, and adventure sites. I find it good that WotC is formatting its books in a common structure.

The Environment section is missing a few important things though. It touches on volcanic areas, but the rest of the book mostly focuses on deserts. It seems the volcanic stuff was either added in as filler, cut out for space, or the sections were written by different people. Its not clear whether this is supposed to be the "Hot Environment" book or just the "Desert" book. Also, there are a few notable environments missing. The plane of Mithardir in Arborea is totally missing. And it would have been nice to see a mention of Athas, the desert world of Dark Sun.

The new Asherati race seems very derivative of the D'Resh characters from Magi-Nation, from the physical appearance/description to some of their peculiar talents. The Ashworm Dragoon prestige class evokes visions of riding the sandworms in Dune, though its hard not to find similarities to that epic. Most of the other prestige classes are interesting, and can play very interesting roles in a campaign.

With the equipment, we have the hydration suit, a derivation of the Dune Still-suit - perhaps a necessity, but still pretty obvious. There are also obvious versions of real-world items such as suntan lotion or crude oil. The sand vehicles - desert variants of sailing ships - are good additions. But I would have liked to see more originality here.

The monsters have a good variety of challenges. A new (deceased) race called the marru are mentioned in several monster descriptions, though not in a lot of detail. Desert varieties of many creatures (dust hag, sand dragon, dry lich, etc.) are complimented by other novel creatures. But again, there are some hidden derivations. It is difficult not to compare the saguaro sentinel to any number of other cactus creatures which have appeared in anime, gaming or so forth. But the Sand Hunter is clearly derived from Vernor Vinge's Tine race from A Fire Upon The Deep.

I have no problem with people creating derivations. Its common enough in gaming, but it would be good to see credit given. I would suggest a list of references to other material in the future. This would not only credit ideas, but it would also let gamers find good extra material and ideas for campaigns.

There is still a wealth of information here, and I can say the book is a valuable resource for GMs who want to run desert campaigns or adventures. While not quite up to the standard set with Frostburn, its still a solid supplement

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