''Complete Scoundrel: A Player's Guide to Trickery and Ingenuity'' is a supplemental rule book for the
3.5 edition of the ''
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Contents
The book provides feats, prestige classes, and other options for characters interested in playing trickster characters. It has introduced the idea of Skill tricks, which are feat-like character moves that cost skill points to learn and may only be used once per encounter.
The Prestige Classes in this book are the: Avenging Executioner, Battle Trickster, Cloaked Dancer, Combat Trapsmith, Fortunes's Friend, Gray Guard, Magical Trickster, Malconvoker, Master Of Masks, Mountebank, Psibond Agent, Spellwarp Sniper, and the Uncanny Trickster.
Some of the feats in this book have been specialized for the Sneak attack. There are also Luck feats, which give the character a reroll on certain actions in order to get a better result. There are also Bardic Music feats, which give the bard the option to use up one of his daily bard performance in order to gain specific effects.
Publication history
''Complete Scoundrel'' was written by
Mike McArtor and
F. Wesley Schneider
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, and published in January 2007. Cover art is by
William O'Connor, and interior art is by
David Bircham
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Miguel Coimbra
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Career
Coimbra started drawing in his childhood. His special interest in games and the fantasy theme was aroused through the trading card game ''Magic: T ...
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Ed Cox,
Eric Deschamps
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His ''Dungeons & Dragons'' work includes interior art for '' Sharn: City of Towers'' (2004), '' Explorer's Handbook'' (2005), '' Dragon Magic'' (2006), '' Complete ...
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Carl Frank
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Education
He graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a BFA in illustration.
Career
His ''Dungeons & Dragons'' work includes '' Scourge of the Howling Hord ...
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Randy Gallegos
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Howard Lyon
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Howard Lyon was born in Mesa, Arizona and studied illustration at Brigham Young University (BYU) worki ...
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Warren Mahy
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Warren was born in the small sea side town of Whakatane in New Zealand. He grew up surrounded by the wonders of the Pacific ...
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Michael Phillippi
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Michael Phillippi started his illustration career in 1997 after graduating from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
Career
His ''Dungeon ...
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Franz Vohwinkel
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Vohwinkel drew the cover art for the book ''Dataware'' (1998) for TSR's ''Alternity'' game, and illustra ...
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Eva Widermann
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Education
She went to the Scholastic of Graphic & Design, Munich.
Career
Widermann started her graphic design career in 1998 and wor ...
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Kieran Yanner.
Mike McArtor explained whether the book was aimed at just the rogue class, or to characters in general: "The book takes a broader aim for the most part, allowing all classes the chance to act a little scoundrelly from time to time (yes, even paladins!). That said, however, we did not forget the original ''D&D'' scoundrels, so we have some support specifically for rogues (and bards, ninjas, scouts, and spellthieves, as well)."
Reception
Reviews
References
External links
Review at RPG net
Wizards site
Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 2007
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