2006 WotC D&D Product Survivor - Round 15

[Presto2112]

The only reason that I voted for FC1 is that, while it is a fantastic book in terms of both content and layout, I simply grew a little tired of demons as a whole. Where's the devil love?

 

[Greg K]

Good point. I guess that makes its sins as bad as PHBII.

I guess I'll hope that the complete mage hatahs join me next round and spare the (best books of the year) FC books for last.

Psion, I'll be joining you to spare the FC books for last.

 

[sckeener]

I'll be saving FC books for last, so bye bye PHB II next....

 

[Razz]

Both FCI and FCII will have to go for me. I loved them, but their flaw was in the page count. Sorry, but they deserved 224+ pages devoted to them each, not 160. Yet Drow of the Underdark gets 224 pages, a subrace of elves? Gimme a break. See ya FCI and FCII, such potential WotC gave you but screwed over on.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I will probably also be moving to spare the FC books, though it is an incredibly hard call. These last four were definitely my top 4 WotC products of 2006, far and away above the others. And Complete Mage, while an excellent book, was without a doubt the one to vote off next, leaving the others as the top 3.

At that point, however, it gets very difficult for me. FCI and FCII were both extremely awesome, and PHII had tons of useful material, one of my favourite base classes (sorry Psion, but I love the Beguiler--it lets me play an Enchanter who can do Diplomacy and the like, much like Telepath, my other favourite. Wizard:Enchanter and Sorcerer are both woefully incapable of this. Of course Dragon Shaman is extra-meh), useful spells (not universally, of course), great feats (again not universally--Arcane Thesis is an overpowered waste of space). However, I can't fault it for not having 100% top-notch material with so much in there.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Your Complete Mage must be different from mine, as there's only a handful of pages of content about Warlocks and Wu Jen in my copy.

What do you consider a handful? Witha few PrCs for Warlocks, the page count automatically gets kicked into the double digits because of the expanded page count of the PrCs themselves no?

 

[Vanuslux]

What do you consider a handful? Witha few PrCs for Warlocks, the page count automatically gets kicked into the double digits because of the expanded page count of the PrCs themselves no?

It's roughly 15 pages all together out of a 160 page book, 2/3rd of which is PrCs which every book has a bunch of crappy, useless ones anyway. That's a handful to me and certainly not enough to justify saying that warlocks are a huge focus of the book.

 

[Mercule]

Complete Mage. We're complete enough, already. A better title would have been Mage Glut.