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And are also exempt from standard alignment classification due to their inability to act beyond instinct and emotion, for the most part, due to their intelligence. A number of animals also engage in forms of rape, cannibalism, infanticide and other atrocities that would peg a human as being...

Chaotic Good that leans closely to Neutral Good. I prefer playing someone good, someone who cares and will go out of his way to help others, anyway, but sometimes really just want to say the heck with laws or the like and get impulsive. Sometimes, doors just need to be kicked down. The vast...

Of course, the true quality of a book can't be judged by anybody until they've read it for themselves. With that said, advertising helps one gauge whether to bother looking in the first place - or possibly for placing a preorder, which it seems many folk do. Not to mention that it can be...

No use arguing opinion, mine being the Player's Guides were decent, yours they being good or great, so I'll just cut to the one thing worth continuing on. Anyway, what I put in bold is, to a degree, my point. Of course even the most solid d20 companies bleed. That nearly goes without saying...

It's interesting to see how advertising backfires at times, or how some products unexpectedly bloom beyond what they were intended to. With that said, the top ten list Wizards has there may as well read as the top ten reasons not to buy the book. It was, in my mind, a simple list of "More of...

It's not a matter of bank roll, it's a matter of profit. White Wolf isn't going to keep sinking money into a line of books that isn't making a profit, no matter how much they have to spare. It means they'll probably let it continue a wee bit longer then a less wealthy company might, but in the...

Depending on how you run it, Changeling: the Dreaming is actually closer to D&D; considering the princesses, dragon slaying, plate mail, knights, thieving rogues and etc, it could definitely, easily be spun to something closer to D&D than Werewolf. With that said, if you're looking for...

Selfishness tends to be one of the typically ascribed evil traits, contrasting with the good that is selflessness. Neutrality typically lies somewhere in between - need for ones own survival very strong, but including a capacity to sacrifice and suffer for family and loved ones while letting...

Maybe I'm mistaken in this, but wasn't a major part of Elminster's point that he represented to the players that, no matter how big their PC's got, there was always going to be someone bigger and better then them? I've always considered Elminster to be possibly the worst offenders when it...

It's really a number of things. First, sizable threads on Enworld will typically do it for me, for one. Seeing a four to ten page thread or so on a book, like it seems many of Wizards products will get, tends to grab my attention. Then company factors in. Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy Flight...

And you know, just as an aside, it seems I'll read a review and find that many of them state that the products a 4, but that the review itself reads like a 3.

I like my campaign settings to be the center of their respective settings. Sort of. If I'm running a Dragonlance game, for example, chances are the planes aren't going to be dealt with at all. A Forgotten Realms or other such game also likely won't deal too much with the planes. They probably...

Well, my own reviews have 4-6 comments total stating they had steered the commentor towards buying or not buying those books. Whether those people actually went with what they said or not I can't honestly say, though. As for myself personally, before deciding on whether or not I wanted the...

It is a bit depressing to hear that all the remaining continents will apparently end up being shoved into one book, one book that's only about as large as the past two singular continent books have been. And yes, it does seem that it's possibly being done that way to "wrap up" the Scarred...

Although previous Scarred Lands books have offered a glimpse of the settings planes, such as in Divine and the Defeated, it is only as of Edge of Infinity that we get to see a more complete picture of them. After having seen a number of less then interesting Scarred Lands products come out...

Typically I'll allow anything that can fit into or at least hide amongst humanity and has a level adjustment that fits in with whatever level I'm starting things off at (generally 2nd, to allow a little space for multi-classing or, hey, level adjustments). As such, generally the Player's...

True. But this is about supporting a setting with new material being printed and, as is, I'm not sure I'd do that with the Scarred Lands now, at least if I'm restricted to choosing only one setting. Which I suppose is rather supported by your statement...that new books really aren't needed...

Hmm... I'd have said the Scarred Lands, but the current absence of information about what the heck is happening with the setting followed by some of its later books... Other then that, Iron Kingdoms is looking interesting, though I'm not quite sure it's what would win me over fully...I really...

Much obliged. Typically I try to be rather critical, perhaps overly so, in my reviews because I'd feel responsible if someone bought a book in part for what I'd written only to turn around and feel like they'd wasted their money. However, Eberron proved at least my initial thoughts on the...

Edge of Infinity left about as much to the imagination as the Manual of the Planes; to a degree, Edge of Infinity is like someone took the Manual of the Planes and put a campaign setting spin to it. And leaving a lot to the imagination, to my mind, reads as "The book itself is lacking and...