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Based on the award-winning RPG book Toolbox, the Ultimate Toolbox starts off where the original stopped. Focusing on inspiration, the Ultimate Toolbox is 400 pages of the best charts, tables, and seeds of gaming adventure. From character backgrounds and world building to pirate lore and magical portals, every page is the key to adventure.
Covering seven distinct and ever-important topics, the Ultimate Toolbox is a must for any GM. Whether your games take place in the city, dungeon, wilds, or even at sea, there's a chapter dedicated to it. Even PCs, NPCs, and magical creations get their fair share of attention, as well as advice and charts for building an adventure or campaign from scratch.
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This book can be used with any fantasy game system. There are no rules, no powers, no stats of any kind—merely page after page of charts, tables, advice and good solid gaming inspiration. With over 1,000 tables and a fully-loaded index, what else could you ever need?
I like releases like this. I wonder if there will be a PDF done? And when will the whole thing be converted to Tablesmith? Ha!
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I like releases like this. I wonder if there will be a PDF done? And when will the whole thing be converted to Tablesmith? Ha!
PDF? Yes, but sometime down the road, no idea how long.
Tablesmith? No idea.
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I like 3E, so which one whould i get, this or the old 3E one? What are the main differences ? How detailed are the 3E stats? Does Ultimate Toolbox have more content?
PS: Please someone correct the typo in the thread title.
Last edited by Thanael; 13th February 2009 at 11:40 AM..
I think the number of tables is about 2:1 or even 3:1, relative to the 3.0 book. But that other thread would be the place to look.
And it'll generally be a bigger book as well. But again, go to the sauce.
Emphasis on the '.0' bit, because while it does have stats (even stripped down monster statblocks), there are things like Wilderness Lore and Alchemy skills, Rangers with d10 HD, and so on.
edit --- now I took my own advice, 2:1 or 3:1 probably doesn't cut it.
Last edited by Aus_Snow; 13th February 2009 at 02:32 PM..
From the intro (mislinked on the AEG preview site; here's the file), it sounds like an excellent book, though perhaps less-GM focused than the earlier tome. Even so, it's clocking in at 400 pages, which makes it more-than-double the size of the first version of Toolbox.
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