Advanced Hexmasters Handbook (Hexmaster Series) Paperback – February 3, 2025

Unleash the Power of the Hex with the Advanced Hexmasters Handbook!Are you ready to take your hexmastering to the next level? Delve into the secrets of the arcane with the Advanced Hexmasters Handbook, a comprehensive guide designed for compatibility with all your Advanced Hexmaster products. This isn't just an expansion; it's a complete overhaul packed with countless hours of research, experimentation, and a few minor dimensional rifts (all closed...eventually).Inside, you'll find a treasure trove of knowledge including:Extensive procedures for hex exploration to guide you through any terrain.Detailed dungeon generation techniques to craft the perfect challenges for your players.A revised magical item creation system that now properly accounts for reflective surfaces in enchantment calculations.New monster creation procedures for animals, biomechanical horrors, clockwork nightmares, deepworld behemoths, demons, dimensional paradoxes, dragons, eldritch machines, liminal beasts, memetic predators, mindscourges, oozes, plant monsters, tideborn horrors, transhuman horrors, and the undead.Comprehensive artifact creation tables for magic books, containers, and dolls.This handbook is more than just a rulebook; it's a collaborative effort from Malidrex the Hex-Mistress, The Magus's Mirror, and The Book of Eldritch Shadows. Benefit from their combined wisdom (and bickering) as you learn to:Create unique magical books with varying origins, materials, cores, appearances, quirks, and primary spell effects.Craft potent magic containers with origins ranging from planar imperiums to rogue AIs, and with a wide range of aesthetic properties and drawbacks.Construct unsettling magic dolls with their own origins, materials, soul infusions, appearances, quirks, and spell effects.The Advanced Hexmasters Handbook also features:Wasteland Sickness and Wraithform conditions to add new challenges and strategic options.Tables for aberrant features, mutations, and flaws to create truly unique creatures and artifacts.Procedures for creating various monster types, with specific tables for modifying their stats and abilities.A vast array of monster abilities such as Adaptive Strike, Soulfire Breath, Living Shield, Gravity Dive, and many more, each with its own specific flaws.Random tables for wilderness hex encounters for various environments, including arctic, mountains, ruins, swamps, and more, plus artifacts and adventure hooksDetailed dungeon generation tables with side passages, special passages, treasure, and adventure hooks, plus tables for mundane items.Wandering monster tables for various dungeon depths, with stats for goblins, mummies, wraiths, dragons and much moreDon't settle for the ordinary. Embrace the chaos and become a master of the hex with this essential guide!Note: Some content may involve biomechanical transmutations and mushroom forests; please read warnings carefully. Also, be prepared for some inter-artifact bickering. Read more