The Dark Voyage

The Dark Voyage is a compendium of Dungeons & Dragons information. Not the backstory and tales of far-off lands that fills most sourcebooks, but the nuts-and-bolts of it all. Practical, useful information. The initial plan goes a little something like this:

1. Take one character class and deconstruct it, starting with the classes covered in the Player's Handbook.
   • Pros and cons.
   • Which type of player would this class appeal to?
   • Function in a party.
   • Survivability in various party configurations.
   • Assorted other details.
2. Once those are covered, move on to the core races.
3. Along the way, sprinkle in some prestige classes from the Dungeon Master's Guide, and playable races from the Monster Manual (with thoughts for DMs regarding balance issues for those races).
4. Having covered the core material, supplemental sourcebooks will be discussed, one at a time.
5. On occasion, feats and spells of note may be covered, and variant rules may be discussed.

Note: Much of the material described here is based on content that is copyright of various authors. Where this is the case, links to purchase these materials will be made available. Any such material referenced on this site has already been purchased by the author of this site (yes, I have a lot of D&D books). Any analysis of such content (including but not limited to: survivability of classes, usefulness of spells, balance of playable races, etc) is stricly the opinion of the author of this site. While I may have experience in both a Dungeon Master and Player capacity, my opinions are not to be taken as the absolute final word in truth. What I consider balanced may still be abused by a creative player.

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