Which of the following 3PP v.3.5 products should I buy?

[Knightfall]

Can you really find some of these books still? I've been looking for a couple of the older ones for quite some time...

Of all the ones I've listed, I'm 95% sure that these are available at one of Edmonton's LGSs. Any with an astrisk are definitely available since I've hummed and hawed over them more than once.

• Book of Erotic Fantasy *
• Cities of Fantasy - Stormhaven
• Eldritch Sorcery *
• Gary Gygax's World Builder
• Grim Tales
• Lore of the Gods *
• Morningstar *
• Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire *
• Shelzar: City of Sins
• Slavelords of Cydonia *
• The Black Company Campaign Setting *
• Tome of Horrors III
• Wilderlands of High Fantasy *

There is a store called Whyte Knight, which has tons of roleplaying stuff. They have older edition D&D books and RPG references from almost any other system you can think off. (Okay, that's an exaggeration but it's pretty damn close.)

They also accept used toys and have a large selection of used comics too. They even sell replica weaponry and fantasy and sci-fi-themed statuettes and the like. It's one of the most unique stores in Edmonton.

 

[Knightfall]

bump

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Well, if the poll had been multi-choice, as I had thought as I went clicking away down the list, rather than single choice, one of the votes for Wilderlands of High Fantasy would also be a vote for a few other choices off that list...

 

[kenmarable]

This is a serious option in the poll?

And it's currently beating the only product that has material I wrote in it.

I'm pretty sure I've seen it in one of my FLGSs. However, if I was mistaken and I decide I want a copy then I'll send you an e-mail. And, what does Arms & Armor v.3.5 have in it that sets it apart from other equipment sourcebooks?

I voted for Arms & Armor, but it was a tough choice. On the one hand I'm biased (that's the product with some stuff I wrote in it), but on the other hand, of the products in that list that I am familiar with, it is one of the most generally useful. For example, Chaositech was almost my choice, since it really is an awesome book, but it is also very tightly focused on that one topic. I know I drooled over it when I first got it (and still do on occassion, it's getting pretty waterlogged), but it has pretty much never actually been used in my campaigns because it has rarely with the theme and mood.

Arms & Armor is just packed to the brim with magical and mundane... well, arms and armor. It's a very generically useful book full of crunch that can be used in ANY game, no matter what sort your group likes to run.

Some of the other ones might fit that description as well (Book of the Righteous perhaps?), but I'm not as familiar with them.

 

[Knightfall]

And it's currently beating the only product that has material I wrote in it.

I bought Book of Erotic Fantasy today. It's definitely a different type of book. Still, it has some "interesting" ideas in it.

 

[Knightfall]

As an aside, what can people tell me about Tome of Horrors II? One of my LGSs has two copies of it but they shrink wrap all their books (and it costs $2 to view books there).

Opinions?

 

[Ghostwind]

All of the Tome of Horrors books are worth buying. Very well done stuff.

 

[Knightfall]

All of the Tome of Horrors books are worth buying. Very well done stuff.

Does anyone have an index of what is in Tome of Horrors II? Does it contain "classic" monsters (like the first Tome of Horrors) or new monsters?

 

[Ghostwind]

Does anyone have an index of what is in Tome of Horrors II? Does it contain "classic" monsters (like the first Tome of Horrors) or new monsters?

If I remember correctly, it had a mix of new and old with more new than old.

 

[Psion]

Does anyone have an index of what is in Tome of Horrors II? Does it contain "classic" monsters (like the first Tome of Horrors) or new monsters?

If I remember correctly, it had a mix of new and old with more new than old.

It's really mostly new, unless you count animals. There are a few nods to classic concepts, like the "sepia shake" and "blood weird" (which is really a red colored classic water weird).

TOH III had a few more nods to classics, though slightly altered as they didn't have any arrangement with WotC as they did in ToHI. e.g. Demonic Knight is their take on a Death Knight, they have a more faithful-to-1e demilich, etc.