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Classtravel Series
Class Travel Series was originally envisioned as a comprehensive book series to address all of the common issues and questions with the class system. The back cover of the first book claims that all 250 classes allowed under the game would have their own book but in reality only the first 138 classes were ever published.
Many people were upset that many of the classes were carbon copies of other classes under the core rules and allowed for little in the way of customization even with the 15 page charactor sheets. By adding another twenty plus pages to the character sheets and adding many new rules these issues were addressed.
Each book includes new class abilities, new class merchant abilities, new class skills, new class armor counts, a unique ability set for every race/class combination, and more.
One of the major problems with the series was that they readily contradicted not only the core rules, but the themselves as well. Additionally, the new class abilities were often much, much more powerful than anything offered in the core rules. This is why it was widely reguarded as the munchkin series of books and were banned by most groups of players.
Even though they were banned, they still proved to be good sellers. Some think that obsessive compulsive nature of the CCGers (who had to own them all) is the only reason for their sales, while those owning the books will defend them saying that it's best to know all of the rules. The catchy naming scheme of the series also added to this.
In order of their release...
1 Nov 97 - Warrior Wanderings, Clone of Hitter Man
2 Dec 97 - Rogue Rovings
3 Dec 97 - Elemenstors Jumping Around, Non-Clone (Expansion of a Core "Xtra" Class)
4 Jan 98 - Bardic Bolting
5 Jan 98 - Monkish Moving
6 Jan 98 - Mage Meandering, Clone of Sorc'lyer
7 Jan 98 - Shopkeep Slothing
8 Jan 98 - Town Crier Careening
9 Feb 98 - Beggar Stumbling
10 Feb 98 - Barbarian Bickering, Clone of Warmonger
11 Feb 98 - Pirate Plundering, Clone of Warmonger
12 Feb 98 - Gatekeeper's Gate
13 Mar 98 - Ranger's Wild Adventure (this was originally released under the title Ranger's Rovings, they pulled it when they realized they already used roving)
14 Mar 98 - Visor's Vectors
15 Mar 98 - Drawer Dexterousness
16 Mar 98 - Brewer's Bustling
17 Mar 98 - Dunderhead's Dancing
18 Apr 98 - Ninja's Sneaking
19 Apr 98 - Intellectual's Inertia
20 Apr 98 - Pyromancer's Prancing
21 Apr 98 - Hydromancer's Sailing
22 Apr 98 - Lifegiver's Lumbering, Clone of Clerical Healer
23 Apr 98 - Summoner's Sliding
24 May 98 - Magecrafters Mobility, Clone of Whyzard
25 May 98 - Shaaman's Stalking, Non-Clone (Expansion of a Core Class)
15 Jun 98 - Warlock's Walking
20 Jun 98 - Rune Knight's Runnings
21 Jun 98 - Town Watchman's Wobblings
22 Jun 98 - Hangman's Hoppings
23 Jun 98 - Holy Baker's Hithering and Thithering
24 Jun 98 - Axe Lord's Anglings, Clone of Warmonger
25 Jun 98 - Animal Tamer's Awaying
15 Jul 98 - Paladin's Pitter-Patter, Clone of Holy Cavalryman
20 Jul 98 - Cleric's Coming, Non-Clone (Expansion of a Core Class)
21 Jul 98 - Collector's Circumnavigation
22 Jul 98 - Landscaper's Lollygagging
23 Jul 98 - Pole man's Perusing
24 Jul 98 - Peasant's Perambulating
25 Jul 98 - Seeker's Somnambulation
29 Jul 98 - Listener's Leaping
22 Aug 98 - Dairy Bishop's Driving, Clone of Sorc'lyer
23 Aug 98 - Tinker's Transportation
01 Sep 98 - Plumber's Peril, Clone of Dancer
14 Oct 98 - Miner's Mining
07 Mar 02 - Warrior Bard's Wonder, Semi-Clone of multiple classes.
12 Dec 02 - Token Master's Mianderings class devoted to using Summon Tokens
| (more to be added later...) |
The series last print was in March of 2002.
| I don't know whether I should create separate page for each book, or just link the titles to descriptions of classes, like Warrior - Jake |
| Let's just link to the class descriptions for now. If someone wants to write a book description, they can change it and link to the class description from that sub-page. Unless you want to make a stub page for each that just says something along the lines of Also See: Warrior - tim |
| I think I have a copy of "Gatekeeper's Gate," but it sez "Gatekeeper's Keepings" for some reason. Maybe I have a European version or a Japanese Bootleg? I got it off of e-bay -1c3m4n |
| Wasn't "Cleric's Coming" called "Clerical Healer's Sweet Time" in the US edition? -andras |
| I'm stubbing the pages in hope that someone fleshes them out later, though obviously the main RPG will come first. Luckily, most of the classes are just clones of the main ones with different skillsets, so it shouldn't be too difficult once the main RPG is fleshed out. Anyone who want to help in this endeavor is invited to jump in. ~ Charmy |
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