The essential handbook integrating war and battlefield action into D&D® play.Heros of Battle™ provides everything one needs to know to play a battle-oriented D&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-authoringRaces of Stone™ and Unearthed Arcana™.WILL McDERMOTT, former editor-inchief of Duelist and TopDeck magazines,has written a number of articles for Dragon® 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.