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

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, and notable for its trade paperback format.

Contents

The guidebook provides supplemental information for characters belonging to the Wizard

Wizard (Dungeons & Dragons)

The wizard is one of the standard character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A wizard uses arcane magic, and is considered less effective in melee combat than other classes.-Creative origins:...

 and Sorcerer

Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)

The sorcerer is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A sorcerer is weak in melee combat, but a master of arcane magic, the most generally powerful form of D&D magic. Sorcerers' magical ability is innate rather than studied...

 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

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

Complete Arcane

Complete Arcane is a supplemental rulebook for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. It expands upon and replaces an earlier soft-cover rulebook entitled Tome and Blood.-Contents:...

.

See also

• Defenders of the Faith
  Defenders of the Faith (Dungeons & Dragons)
  Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and notable for its trade paperback format.-Contents:...
  
  
• Masters of the Wild
  Masters of the Wild
  Masters of the Wild: A Guidebook to Barbarians, Druids, and Rangers is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and notable for its trade paperback format.-Contents:...
  
  
• Song and Silence
  Song and Silence
  Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Rogues and Bards is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and notable for its trade paperback format.-Contents:...
  
  
• Sword and Fist
  Sword and Fist
  Sword and Fist: A Guidebook to Fighters and Monks is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, written by Jason Carl and notable for its trade paperback format.-Contents:...
  
  

External links

• Product page at wizards.com