{"product_id":"the-mages-war-pdf-pre-order","title":"The Mages' War Book + PDF Pre-Order","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Note, this is a preorder, the book and PDF will ship as soon as the book is printed (estimated June 2026)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChoose a Side...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJoin the ongoing war raging between the technocratic Order of the Blank and the insurrectionist Arcanuum mages. Choose between science and magic, high tech and fantasy, as you delve into a supplement filled with brand new options for Game Masters and players alike! With this fifth-edition game book, you can add elements of sci-fi and epic fantasy, and a conflict that will rock the very foundations of your campaign world! \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's in the Book?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Mages' War\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 230+ page tome compiling \u003cstrong\u003eHigh Magic\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHigh Tech\u003c\/strong\u003e elements. High Magic battles High Tech in this comprehensive 5e tome. Take a side and join… the Mages’ War! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnleash the ultimate fusion of fantasy and sci-fi with this groundbreaking D\u0026amp;D 5E supplement, introducing a wealth of new content including mechanics, player options, monsters, and adventures, all bridging the gap between ancient sorcery and futuristic marvels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe Mages' War Includes:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • The Death of Magic Adventure: Save the people of Graznia from a technocratic invasion!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 10 Encounters, for levels 1-20: Easily drop these encounters into your existing games. Battle monsters, solve riddles, gather loot, and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 27 Stat Blocks: Terrify your players with new foes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 2 Templates: A new mechanic for creating and enhancing monsters, including the clockwork and neurograft templates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 49 Items + 1 Artifact to enhance your games.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 18 Sigils: A new mechanic to customize and augment weapons, armor, magic items, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e8 Spells, bringing more magic to your games.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 9 Epic Casting Spells: A new mechanic with spells of incredible power.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 23 Warps: A new mechanic for technological marvels that alter reality and disrupt magic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 3 Races: The Edynites, soma, and nihilites.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 3 Subclasses: The Oath of Secrecy paladin, Oath of the Antimage paladin, and Arcanuum wizard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 13 Grafts: A new mechanic to augment characters' bodies. Replace an arm with a cannon, an eye with a robotic orb, and become the arcane or cybernetically altered character you always dreamed of.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 20 Feats + variant options for adding more feats.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 11 Deficiencies: A new game mechanic for making characters more versatile and providing new roleplaying opportunities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 2 Machines: The iron colossus and terravator. Ride to battle in a massive mech! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • 2 Backgrounds: The Blank supporter and wanted spellcaster. Join the Order of the Blank to destroy magic, or hide yourself away from your enemies to fight another day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • Hazards and Lore: Traps, environments, and histories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIt's time! Choose a side and join the Mages' War! \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaces \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlay as one of three new races, including the mechanical\u003cstrong\u003e soma, \u003c\/strong\u003eyour consciousness held within a crystal of scientific marvel, the ruined \u003cstrong\u003enihilite, \u003c\/strong\u003ea creature stripped down and rebuilt by the Order of the Blank, or the powerful \u003cstrong\u003eEdynite\u003c\/strong\u003e, a race of subterranean magic users hiding away from the persecution of the surface. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/races_2_97905b79-8d71-455f-8a91-2c6f0265553f.png?v=1712267302\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubclasses\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProtect the innocent, hiding spellcasters and protecting the weak by taking the \u003cstrong\u003eOath of Secrecy, \u003c\/strong\u003ecrush spellcasters by taking the \u003cstrong\u003eOath of the Antimage,\u003c\/strong\u003e paladins that forsake the lies of magic for the power of science, or take the fight back to those that dare oppose the might of magic as an \u003cstrong\u003eArcanuum Wizard. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/subclasses2_c905d57d-1324-4dfc-8699-80f361ff7c08.png?v=1712267256\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBattle Fearsome Foes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBattle\u003cstrong\u003e 23 new monsters\u003c\/strong\u003e of magical and mechanical origins with CR's of low, medium, and higher tiers or\u003cstrong\u003e operate new machines,\u003c\/strong\u003e take a ride in the terravator, digging through the earth, or the iron colossus, crushing everything in your path! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/monsters_2_c0b6f00b-cc78-464f-9443-6ce5c7853e68.png?v=1712267462\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrafts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugment your character with grafts, a new mechanic that allows you to replace body parts with augmentations. Use the new mechanic to apply grafts, and make use of your Medicine skill to quickly apply or remove grafts... or suffer the consequences of failure. Replace your arms with canons, implant your brain with an enhancer, cast spells from a crystal implanted in your palm, and more! This supplement includes grafting mechanics and \u003cstrong\u003e13 grafts \u003c\/strong\u003eto augment your characters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/grafts2_81f94099-6efe-4b16-b42c-33945f571431.png?v=1712267333\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBackgrounds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePick a side in this new setting easily dropped into an existing game or serving as a stand-alone setting. Side with the Arcanuum as a \u003cstrong\u003eHunted Mage\u003c\/strong\u003e, or join the Order of the Blank as an\u003cstrong\u003e Initiate\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/backgronds_2_be96b80e-bb62-4a56-9fee-456ba0fe62d4.png?v=1712267364\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeats \/ Deficiencies \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake new feats to customize your characters! Never use feats? Not to fear! We have created a new Deficiencies system. With this system you take the opposite of a feat, a deficiency makes you worse at something, perhaps making it harder for you to cast spells, or decreasing ability scores. In exchange you can take on a bonus feat, allowing for greater character customization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/feats_and_deficiencies_2_7552249a-baa1-429f-8f30-4becde8323f3.png?v=1712267503\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnhance Monsters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate countless new monsters by applying our new monster templates. Create technological marvels with the clockwork template or intellectually advanced monsters with the neurograft template. Templates can be applied to hundreds of monsters, giving you endless opportunities to surprise your players or create thematic enemies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/templates2.png?v=1712265783\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeave New Spells\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to\u003cstrong\u003e 6 new spells,\u003c\/strong\u003e this supplement details \u003cstrong\u003e9 epic casting spells,\u003c\/strong\u003e spells that take your characters far beyond even 9th-level spells. These spells have specific requirements and are incredibly difficult to cast, but their effects are truly devastating. Epic spells serve as a great goal for characters or a horrifying repercussion should a BBEG succeed in obtaining the appropriate rites, rituals, or materials to cast one. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/spells2.png?v=1712266266\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreate Warps \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHave you forsaken magic for the TRUE power? Have you turned from the weave and embraced the truth of mechanics? You have unlocked the new powers of\u003cstrong\u003e 23 new Warps.\u003c\/strong\u003e These technological marvels cannot be \u003ci\u003ecounterspelled \u003c\/i\u003eand are not thwarted by \u003ci\u003edispel magic\u003c\/i\u003e or similar spells. Show spellcasters who truly wields the power of the universe as you utilize the might of arcanhile to create warps. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/warp2.png?v=1712267042\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover New Items \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrill your players by rewarding them with High Magic and High Tech items alike, with 50 new items! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eInscribe Sigils\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnhance existing items with sigils, a new mechanic allowing you to augment your existing items with new magical abilities, allowing for endless combinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/1480\/1193\/files\/sigils2.png?v=1712267820\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"image\"\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDelve Into Adventure!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin with the Arcanuum or crush your foes with the weapons of The Blank. Delve into adventure with this comprehensive book including new lore for each faction as well as new hazards! \u003cstrong\u003eExplore 10 encounters,\u003c\/strong\u003e five for each faction. These encounters are easily dropped into an existing campaign or can be strung together to create a campaign all your own! Encounters are written by our lead writer Dillon, with over half a decade of experience creating stories and adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncounters include interesting NPC's new items, puzzles, traps, and more! Our encounters are not \"you see 1d6 kobolds\" we put a lot of love into these encounters to make them easy to run, with roleplaying tips, read-aloud text, and more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book includes a\u003cstrong\u003e full adventure\u003c\/strong\u003e \"The Death of Magic\" for characters level 3-6. 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