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WbL is somewhat of a misnomer I think. It is really magic items by level. How many characters really use their wealth for anything else? In D&D (1st-3.5, never read 4th ed) magic items really make up a big power chunk of your character and his abilities. When you are playing in a home campaign...

I just preordered V20 today. (first WW purchase in years) I preordered tome of horrors complete PF version earlier this month (My birthday present) I am a pathfinder adventure path subscriber Finally, in April I pickup up Basic fantasy and Dark Dungeons from LuLu and a used copy of Mongoose...

I picked up the PDF, overall not a lot of changes in the classes. Assassins got a HD increase, Corsairs got a HD increase, Monster hunter had the biggest change adding a few benefits to help him fight his enemies, survivor got a HD increase, no real changes for the noble or cultist. There were a...

The adventure Caravans (TSR) for al-Qadim deals with the players going to find and rescue a merchants true love (Sita) that has been turned into a ghul. It is not exactly the same adventure hook that you are talking about but you could adjust it to fit without too much effort.

Skull and bones adds a lot of flavor text but it focuses on the piracy era in the Caribbean. There are about a dozen 1/2 page summaries scattered throughout the book of famous pirates between 1690-1720 (with character class levels and hp being the only stats besides background info). It has many...

Let us know how it goes and try not to be too brutal, you want the players to come back for more. :)

Souls for smuggler's shiv has an interesting NPC section and the island could easily be a stand alone adventure. I would change the set up a little though with the players being hired to investigate the hauntings of the island, dropped off, then after they land the ship has its "accident"...

I think you have most of the books I would recommend already. The only one I would further suggest would be Skull and Bones by Green Ronin if you would like to look at a low magic pirate campaign and see some ship rules/fluff. Also see if you can get a copy of the Dragon archives (out of print...

2nd edition is much more unstructured than the later editions. The idea of "encounter levels" did not exist. The belief was that it was okay to travel out into the wilderness or dungeon and run into a vast array of creatures of very different power levels. Parties could and would commonly...

Got it 8/12/09, very nice book.

I agree about the quality of this book. I only own double copies of two RPG books. One is BotR and the other is Midnight 2nd edition.

WotC is trying to change D&D into a steady monthly expenditure rather than an occasional book expenditure. It makes a lot of sense from a company's point of view. You have say 100,000 people playing a month and only 10,000 people buying a book each month, you can usually make more by getting a...

3rd party publishers also do not know if they will be able to use everything in the new 4th edition players handbook, DMG, and monster manual and what OGL requirements will be. Sure in 3rd edition everything but a select group on monsters out of the monster manual was fair game (and you could...

I have to admit, I do like the removal of save vs die and energy drain. I also think that the rules are going to be more balanced and overall it will be a much better game, as much as I hate to admit that. The biggest thing I do not like it what I see as a change in the marketing and...

My favorite WotC/TSR settings are Taladas (James O'Rance's D20 conversion was one of my favorite D20 products ever and it was free, go figure), Then would come Ravenloft 3rd edition (Gazeteers were the best), then the original forgotten realms. Upon doing this I have noticed a trend. I like...