Book of Exalted Deeds

The Book of Exalted Deeds is an optional sourcebook for the 3.0 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) in 2003. It provides supplementary game material for campaigns involving characters of good alignment. Within the game, there is also a powerful magical artifact of the same name. Contents The Book of Exalted Deeds was designed to be a counterpoint to the previously published Book of Vile Darkness, and offered new rules for good occurrences, acts, and characters in the game. Chapter summary The Nature of Good: This defines how good is seen in the Dungeons & Dragons setting, as well as how good-aligned characters of different alignments act in relation to the world around them. Variant Rules: This simply adds additional rules for a campaign featuring good-aligned characters that allows such characters to become exalted characters. Exalted Equipment: This talks about the weapons (sometimes special) used by exalted characters. Feats: This chapter includes several new feats, the vast majority of which are exalted feats, meant specifically for good-aligned characters and usable only by such. Prestige Classes: This chapter introduces prestige classes appropriate for an exalted campaign. Magic: This chapter provides spells almost exclusively for good characters, as well as magical items, weapon and armor enhancements, and artifacts appropriate to such a campaign. Celestial Paragons: This chapter discusses (and provides NPC stat blocks for) celestial paragons, rulers of the Upper planes so overwhelmingly powerful that they are revered as a god would be, even on the Material Plane. It also discusses the Upper Planes to an extent. Monsters: This chapter contains good-aligned monsters, featuring the Deathless type, as well as templates to create customized monsters. Mature content Wizards of the Coast had published the controversial Book of Vile Darkness in 2002, a game supplement that explored evil themes and raised the ire of some with its "Mature Content" sticker, sexualized imagery and graphic details. The following year, WotC released the Book of Exalted Deeds, also with a "Mature Content" warning.