Tome and Blood

Tome and Blood: A Guidebook to Wizards and Sorcerers is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and notable for its trade paperback format.

Tome and Blood

Cover of Tome and Blood
Author	Bruce R. Cordell, Skip Williams
Genre	Role-playing game
Publisher	Wizards of the Coast
Publication date	July 2001
Media type	Print (Trade Paperback)
Pages	96
ISBN	0-7869-1845-4
OCLC	47646058

Contents

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 Wizards of the Coast, and was designed by Bruce R. Cordell and Skip Williams. Cover art was by Todd Lockwood, with interior art by Wayne Reynolds.

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

Reception

The reviewer from Pyramid 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 Bruce R. Cordell.^[1]

Reviews

• Backstab #33^[2]

See also

• Defenders of the Faith
• Masters of the Wild
• Song and Silence
• Sword and Fist