Dark Factions

Dark Factions is a sourcebook for the World of Warcraft RPG. The book was released on May 14, 2008.
==Description ==
Crush the Alliance AND Horde!
Naga and satyrs stir in dark places. Goblins invent crazy devices. The Atal'ai summon a bloodthirsty god. Azeroth is home to more than just the Alliance and Horde.
Discover eight new races and fifteen factions. New game elements — classes, spells, technological devices, and the like — further enhance these characters.
* Contains eight new races, including naga, pandaren and satyrs.
* Contains nine prestige classes, including the brewmaster, death knight, and naga anomaly.
* Includes variant classes, racial iconic classes, and creature classes, allowing you to play just the sort of character you want.
* Brims with new feats, spells, magic items, technological devices, and other abilities and items to decimate your opponents.
* Contains information on the fifteen factions unaffiliated with the Alliance or Horde, including their leaders and strategies, narrated by famed dwarven explorer Brann Bronzebeard.
* Includes two adventures to challenge heroes of any affiliation.
Dark Factions is a supplement for the World of Warcraft Roleplaying Game.
== Interview ==
Dark Factions is unofficially subtitled the "Independent Player's Guide", because it's like the Alliance and Horde Player's Guides, but for independent factions and races...One of the races we cover is the pandaren. You'll see the pandaren written up as a new race, as well as at least one racial iconic class for them: the Wardancer. There's also a couple prestige classes designed with pandaren in mind. A Pandaren prestige class is the Brewmaster, based on the hero unit in Warcraft 3. The other one is called the Pandaren Transcendent. Here's a quote:
"These are the pandaren's ultimate heroes: Spiritual avatars capable of summoning vast storms of lighting, smashing mountains with their terrible fists, and breathing winds into existence." 
By the way, I should mention that Dark Factions isn't quite set in stone; everything I mention about it could, theoretically, change.-Luke Johnson, 2006-11-08
==Contents ==
===Monster Guide references===
This is a list of things that differ from the index list.
 
*Mur'gulMonster Guide, pg. 5, 209
:*Mur'gul Shadowcaster (doesn't appear in Dark Factions, may have changed into the "mur'gul necromancer".)
*Items
:*Chain Mail Barding of SpeedMonster Guide, pg. 157
Hinted at for future supplements;
*Forgotten one (Found in a list of monsters in Monster Guide, a single reference in Dark Factions, removed from final product .)
*Spell Breaker (class mentioned in Monster GuideMonster Guide, pg. 65)
*Blood elf, Racial Levels: Unlike humans and some other races, blood elves can take a few levels in "blood elf" as a class to develop their racial qualities more fully. See a future supplement for this class.
==Credits==
;Authors
:Rob Baxter (dragonspawn, pandaren, brewmaster, pandaren transcendent), Scott Bennie (Cult of the Damned, Defias Brotherhood), Richard Farrese (tuskarr, feats, subversive, vindicator, Cenarion Circle, Earthen Ring), Bob Fitch (set items), Bruce Graw (Chapter 5, "Goldknuckle"), Luke Johnson (Chapters 1, 2, and 9, death knight, high divinist, naga anomaly, naga and satyr history, Atal'ai and Hakkari, Darkmoon Faire, Zandalar tribe), Adam Loyd (feats, Chapter 6, Explorers' League, Farstriders, "The Lost Idol"), Jeffrey Moller (stat blocks), Andrew Rowe (dragonsworn, Scarlet battle mage, Scarlet inquisitor, Argent Daw, dragonflights), David Schwartz (martial enchanter, druid of the Nightmare, shadowmage, Syndicate, Thorium Brotherhood, Twilight's Hammer), and Amber E. Scott (Chapter 4, Dark Horde, Scarlet Crusade).
;Creative and Rules Design Assistance and Additional Material
:Chris Metzen, Ben Brode, Shawn Carnes, Samwise Didier, Bob Fitch, Evelyn Fredericksen, Brian Hsieh, Micky Neilson, Lisa Pearce, and Gloria Soto
;Developer
:Luke Johnson
;Editor
:Ellen P. Kiley
;Managing Editor
:Stewart Wieck
;Creative Director
:Richard Thomas
;Art Direction and Design
:Mike Chaney
;Cover Artist
:Samwise Didier
;Interior Artists
:UDON Studios, Satyr, Samwise Didier, Michael Koiter, Rene Koiter, Glenn Rane, & Chris Metzen
===Blizzard Entertainment===
;Creative Development Manager
:Shawn Carnes
;Producer
:Ben Brode
;Developers
:Evelyn Fredericksen, Micky Nielsen
;Art Directors
:Glenn Rane, Sam Didier
;Blizzard Special Thanks
:Chris Metzen, Gloria Soto, Joanna Cleland-Jolly, Lisa Pearce, Brian Hsieh, Cory Jones, Sean Wang, & Justin Parker
==Notes==
*Some things are mentioned, but not seen in the book. Perhaps these were cut from the initial document , or were planned to be included in a future book. They include:
**Faceless ones (removed due to Wrath of the Lich King development, a single racial is mentioned in Dark Factions)
**Pit lords (removed due to The Burning Crusade development)
*According to comments by Luke Johnson, the book was finished long before the release of the Naxxramas patch, but was delayed for a long period.
==Gallery==
File:Icon of the Damned.jpg|Cover artwork.
File:WoW RPG Darkmoon Faire by chriss2d.jpg|The Darkmoon Faire.
File:WoW RPG Argent Dawn by chriss2d.jpg|The Argent Dawn fight the undead.
File:WoW RPG Argent Dawn Forces by chriss2d.jpg|The Argent Dawn fight the undead.
File:WoW RPG Onyxia by chriss2d.jpg|Onyxia — human and dragon forms.
File:WoW_RPG_Transcendent_Pandas_by_UdonCrew.jpg|Pandaren trancendents showing off their elemental martial arts.
File:WoW RPG Scarlet Crusader by chriss2d.jpg|A member of the Scarlet Crusade kicks some butt.
File:WoW RPG Twilight Ritual by UdonCrew.jpg|Twilight ritual.
File:WoW RPG Pandaren vs Satyr by UdonCrew.jpg|Pandaren vs. satyr.
File:WoW RPG Scarlet and Argent by UdonCrew.jpg|The Argent Dawn and the Scarlet Crusade.
File:WoW RPG Defias Brotherhood by chriss2d.jpg|A member of the Defias Brotherhood assaults a peasant.
File:WoW RPG zBrewmaster by UdonCrew.jpg|Pandaren brewmaster.
==See also==
*Dark Horde
==References==
==External links==
* 
 Dark Factions
Category:World of Warcraft: RPG books
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