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=== Back cover blurb === | === Back cover blurb === | ||
{{quoted text|This accessory includes: | |||
* Celestial Races. All of the information you need to design and play celestial characters: aasimon, aasimar, archons, asuras, eladrins, act and guardinals. | {{quoted text|This book sheds new light on the powerful and majestic celestials, guardians of the Upper Planes and empyreal enemies of evil. Players can design their own celestial characters and take the fight to those denizens of darkness, the fiends! | ||
* Celestial Beings and Places. Detailed information on various key players and sites throughout the Upper Planes. | This accessory includes: | ||
* Celestial Magic. New spells and magical items for celestial characters. | * '''Celestial Races'''. All of the information you need to design and play celestial characters: aasimon, aasimar, archons, asuras, eladrins, act and guardinals. | ||
* | * '''Celestial Beings and Places'''. Detailed information on various key players and sites throughout the Upper Planes. | ||
* '''Celestial Magic'''. New spells and magical items for celestial characters. | |||
* '''Celestial Campaign Tips'''. Techniques for running campaigns with celestial characters on the Upper Planes and the Prime Material Plane.}} | |||
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However, people still liked the idea of a web-enhanced product, so Perkins was asked to write yet more material. As a result, an article on the Quesar as a PC race and an adventure called “Devil’s Deal” were produced and made available online, making Warriors of Heaven TSR’s first web-enhanced RPG book. That material can still be found at [https://web.archive.org/web/20081123051742/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDWarriorsOfHeavenSupplement.asp wizards.com.]|<ref>{{cite web |last=Applecline |first=Shannon |authorlink=Shannon Applecline |title=Warriors of Heaven (2e) |url=https://www.dmsguild.com/product_info.php?products_id=17387 |format= |work=DMsGuild.com |publisher=OneBookShelf |date= |accessdate=6 January 2024 |page= |pages= |language= |quote= |postscript= }}</ref> }} | However, people still liked the idea of a web-enhanced product, so Perkins was asked to write yet more material. As a result, an article on the Quesar as a PC race and an adventure called “Devil’s Deal” were produced and made available online, making Warriors of Heaven TSR’s first web-enhanced RPG book. That material can still be found at [https://web.archive.org/web/20081123051742/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDWarriorsOfHeavenSupplement.asp wizards.com.]|<ref>{{cite web |last=Applecline |first=Shannon |authorlink=Shannon Applecline |title=Warriors of Heaven (2e) |url=https://www.dmsguild.com/product_info.php?products_id=17387 |format= |work=DMsGuild.com |publisher=OneBookShelf |date= |accessdate=6 January 2024 |page= |pages= |language= |quote= |postscript= }}</ref> }} | ||
On November 19, 2013, it was re-released in digital format through DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Masters Guild | |||
== Reception and influence == | == Reception and influence == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{cite web |last=Perkins |first=Christopher |authorlink=Christopher Perkins |title=Devil's Deal | * {{cite web |last=Perkins |first=Christopher |authorlink=Christopher Perkins |title=''Devil's Deal'' web enhancement|url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDWarriorsOfHeavenSupplement.asp |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123051742/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDWarriorsOfHeavenSupplement.asp |archivedate=23 November 2008 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=[[WotC]] |date= |accessdate=6 January 2024 |page= |pages=17 |}} | ||
* [https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17387/Warriors-of-Heaven-2e Warriors of Heaven] at DMsGuild.com. | |||
* [https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/de/product/17387/Warriors-of-Heaven-2e Warriors of Heaven] at DriveThruRPG.com. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Latest revision as of 10:30, 10 January 2025
| Warriors of Heaven | |
| <img src="https://www.dmsguild.com/images/44/17387.jpg" width="250" /> | |
| Cover of Warriors of Heaven, art by Brom (1999). | |
| Edition: | Second edition |
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| Author(s): | Christopher Perkins |
| Editor(s): | Ray Vallese, Penny Williams |
| Cover Artist(s): | Brom |
| Interior Artist(s): | Hannibal King |
| Publisher: | TSR |
| First Published: | September 1999 |
| Pages: | 96 |
| ISBN: | 0-7869-1361-4 |
Warriors of Heavenis a sourcebook by Christopher Perkins about all things angelic, published in 1999.
Blurb
Back cover blurb
"This book sheds new light on the powerful and majestic celestials, guardians of the Upper Planes and empyreal enemies of evil. Players can design their own celestial characters and take the fight to those denizens of darkness, the fiends!
This accessory includes:
- Celestial Races. All of the information you need to design and play celestial characters: aasimon, aasimar, archons, asuras, eladrins, act and guardinals.
- Celestial Beings and Places. Detailed information on various key players and sites throughout the Upper Planes.
- Celestial Magic. New spells and magical items for celestial characters.
- Celestial Campaign Tips. Techniques for running campaigns with celestial characters on the Upper Planes and the Prime Material Plane."
Content
Development and release
According to gaming historian Shannon Applecline (from DMsGuild.com),
"Origins: Warriors of Heaven was originally intended to be a companion product to Planescape’s Faces of Evil: The Fiends (1997). It would have been called Servants of Light: The Celestials.
After Planescape: Planescape began with the Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set (1994) and continued through final supplements Faction War (1998) and The Inner Planes (1998), after which Wizards of the Coast brought the line to the end. However, that didn’t mark the end of AD&D’s focus on the Outer Planes. Instead, Wizards began producing “Core D&D” planar sourcebooks, which could be used with any setting, not just Planescape; this was the same strategy they adopted for Ravenloft in 1999.
There would be just two sourcebooks in this post-Planescape era: Warriors of Heaven and A Guide to Hell (1999). Some readers complain these sourcebooks didn’t maintain Planescape canon, but really what they did was expand the Outer Planes mythology, without focusing on the complex setting details that might otherwise have turned new players away from the setting; Planescape’s cant was also phased out. Still, the Planescape setting is acknowledged in Warriors of Heaven; for example, there are some short details on how the Celestials relate to the Blood War.
One Core D&D planar adventure book followed: The Vortex of Madness and Other Planar Perils (2000).
Web Enhanced! Perkins tends to write more words than he’s assigned, and thus he ended up with extra material for Warriors of Heaven, which had originally been scheduled as a 64-page book. At first, the plan was to post this bonus material to www.tsr.com, but then the Brand Management team decided that the material was important enough to include in the book, which was thus expanded to 96 pages.
However, people still liked the idea of a web-enhanced product, so Perkins was asked to write yet more material. As a result, an article on the Quesar as a PC race and an adventure called “Devil’s Deal” were produced and made available online, making Warriors of Heaven TSR’s first web-enhanced RPG book. That material can still be found at wizards.com."[1]
On November 19, 2013, it was re-released in digital format through DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Masters Guild
Reception and influence
See also
External links
- Perkins, Christopher. Devil's Deal web enhancement (PDF). WotC. Archived from the original on 23 November 2008. Retrieved on 6 January 2024.
- Warriors of Heaven at DMsGuild.com.
- Warriors of Heaven at DriveThruRPG.com.
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Applecline, Shannon. Warriors of Heaven (2e). DMsGuild.com. OneBookShelf. Retrieved on 6 January 2024.
Bibliography
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.
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