talinthas said:
hehe. i got your point the first time, kai =)
As for the DLCS, i adore the book.
Gah, and here I thought ENWorld had frozen as completely as amazon.com's shipping department. *click click click submitreplysubmitreplysubmitreply*
Anyway fixed that mess, sort of. And while I agree with your enthusiasm for the DLCS, I just think its a misnomer to suggest that you can't run a campaign out of a 288 page sourcebook of regions, PrC's, event timeline, cultures, races, organizations, gods and so on. Its all there.
A longtime DL fan really only needs 3.5e conversions on the races and PrC's. The maps and story hooks we've had for years. But to a DL newbie, I do think the DLCS is chalk full of rules and flavor goodness.
Even if you haven't read a single DL novel, this is the one and only major campaign world where heroes regularly ride
dragons into battle. Or get to play as divine sorcerers. With Minotaur legions that are playable as an ECL 0 race.
And even though they traded hobbits for kender, its always been the most "Tolkien" D&D setting in feel, but with a much more diverse playing field.
DL also has a great deal of fairy-tale whimsy, from the light side (dragons who have a tendency to polymorph into human/elven form and fall in love with their riders) to the dark--even including rules for "dying curses" where a dying character can bestow a nasty curse on someone who's wronged him as long as he foregoes the possibility of ever being raised or resurrected. And they list the effects of the curse the (most likely evil) character can choose to bestow before he dies. How wicked cool is that?
DL rocks, the DLCS rocks, and the product line-up looks only to get better. If only amazon would ship the freaking books....