num_pages: 160
description: The essential handbook integrating war and battlefield action into D&amp;D play.Heroes of Battle provides everything one needs to know to play a battle-oriented D&amp;D campaign. Players can build military characters with newfeats, spells, uses for traditional spells, and prestige classes. Information isgiven on tools specific to the battlefield, including siege engines, weapons,magic items, steeds, and other exotic mounts. Battlefield terrain aspects arediscussed with plenty of illustrative maps and new rules. Specific types ofbattlefield encounters are discussed in detail, and the book provides specificdetail on designing battlefields. DAVID NOONAN is an RPG designer/developer at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Recent credits include authoring 
  Complete Divine
 and co-authoring
  Races of Stone
 and 
  Unearthed Arcana
.WILL McDERMOTT, former editor-inchief of Duelist and TopDeck magazines,has written a number of articles for DragonÂ® Magazine, but is knownprimarily for his fiction in the Magic: The Gathering universe, includingthe novels Judgment and The Moons of Mirrodin.STEPHEN SCHUBERT is a freelance writer whose previous credits includearticles in 
  Dragon 
Magazine.
language: English
title: Heroes of Battle
titlecomplete: Heroes of Battle
genres: Gaming, Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy, Role Playing Games
ratings_count: 84
publisher: Wizards of the Coast