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<blockquote data-quote="Neuroglyph" data-source="post: 5321673" data-attributes="member: 85633"><p>Yep, am very much aware that there is a Creature Catalog, and in fact I have a review of it here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/review-of-dark-sun-creature-catalog-by-wotc" target="_blank"><strong>Review of <em>Dark Sun Creature Catalog</em> by Wizards of the Coast</strong></a></p><p></p><p>But I stick by my original assessment, and still think that there could have been more content. When I do a review, I expect a book or ebook to stand on its own merits. And I don't think I should not have to go to another product to get a picture of a erdlu or crodlu, or of the other monsters in the sample adventure.</p><p></p><p>And honestly, would it really have killed WotC to include a little pic of the riding beasts of Athas in the book? We don't want every Player to go out and buy a Creature Catalog just to get an idea what their riding mounts looked like, do we?</p><p></p><p>That's the problem with a book that combines Player info and DM info, and then gives it far less pages of content than the other world settings that have been previously released (i.e. FR and Eberron). Things get left out when the Devs have to trim down material to cram it into a smaller package. And so far, by page count alone, Dark Sun looks the "poor cousin" when compared to the Realms and Eberron.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neuroglyph, post: 5321673, member: 85633"] Yep, am very much aware that there is a Creature Catalog, and in fact I have a review of it here: [URL="http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/review-of-dark-sun-creature-catalog-by-wotc"][B]Review of [I]Dark Sun Creature Catalog[/I] by Wizards of the Coast[/B][/URL] But I stick by my original assessment, and still think that there could have been more content. When I do a review, I expect a book or ebook to stand on its own merits. And I don't think I should not have to go to another product to get a picture of a erdlu or crodlu, or of the other monsters in the sample adventure. And honestly, would it really have killed WotC to include a little pic of the riding beasts of Athas in the book? We don't want every Player to go out and buy a Creature Catalog just to get an idea what their riding mounts looked like, do we? That's the problem with a book that combines Player info and DM info, and then gives it far less pages of content than the other world settings that have been previously released (i.e. FR and Eberron). Things get left out when the Devs have to trim down material to cram it into a smaller package. And so far, by page count alone, Dark Sun looks the "poor cousin" when compared to the Realms and Eberron. [/QUOTE]
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