''Tome and Blood: A Guidebook to Wizards and Sorcerers'' is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of ''

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'', and notable for its trade paperback format.

The guidebook provides supplemental information for characters belonging to the Wizard and Sorcerer base classes. This book contained tips for creating and playing characters of the aforementioned class, as well as a large number of prestige classes. ''Tome and Blood'' includes 15 prestige classes. *Acolyte of the Skin *Alienist *Arcane Trickster *Bladesinger *Blood Magus *Candle Caster *Dragon Disciple *Elemental Savant *Fatespinner *Mage of the Arcane Order *Mindbender *Pale Master *Spellsword *True Necromancer *Wayfarer Guide

Publication history

''Tome and Blood'' was published in 2001 by

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and

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. Cover art was by

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. The book was not updated to 3.5 Edition, although most of the prestige classes were later reintroduced in the 3.5 supplemental sourcebook ''

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''.

Reception

The reviewer from ''

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'' commented that "In some ways, the theme of ''Tome And Blood'' could be everything old is new again." The reviewer cited the example of the Arcane Order, originally found in the 2nd edition book ''The College of Wizardry'', by

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