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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6064743" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>As a general quality, I loved how 3rd edition books by and large felt like <em>tomes </em>- large books with small text with lots of random, and often useless, info in them, but without the slick (and often boring) streamlined feeling of 4E books. I felt that 3E did a good job recaptures at least some of the elements that made 1E books fun to browse, but for which 2E was a bit less interesting.</p><p></p><p>As for specific books, in that regards the 3.5E <em>Player's Handbook</em> is terrific, and the <em>Dungeon Master's Guide </em>is pretty good. But for me, as a setting junky, my favorite 3.x book is the <em>Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting</em> hardcover which, along with the 1987 gray box, is the best FR product (imo) and is simply the most beautiful, complete setting product that WotC or TSR has every produced. A master work, really. Also, a lot of their later theme books were quite good (the various codexes and books that looked at weird creatures and alternate rules).</p><p></p><p>Beyond WotC, I have great appreciation for <em>The Book of Righteous Might </em>which has similar qualities to what I describe above: more ideas than should fit into its page count, which is a good thing and what I love about RPG books (think the 1e <em>DMG </em>as the archetype of this quality).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6064743, member: 59082"] As a general quality, I loved how 3rd edition books by and large felt like [I]tomes [/I]- large books with small text with lots of random, and often useless, info in them, but without the slick (and often boring) streamlined feeling of 4E books. I felt that 3E did a good job recaptures at least some of the elements that made 1E books fun to browse, but for which 2E was a bit less interesting. As for specific books, in that regards the 3.5E [I]Player's Handbook[/I] is terrific, and the [I]Dungeon Master's Guide [/I]is pretty good. But for me, as a setting junky, my favorite 3.x book is the [I]Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting[/I] hardcover which, along with the 1987 gray box, is the best FR product (imo) and is simply the most beautiful, complete setting product that WotC or TSR has every produced. A master work, really. Also, a lot of their later theme books were quite good (the various codexes and books that looked at weird creatures and alternate rules). Beyond WotC, I have great appreciation for [I]The Book of Righteous Might [/I]which has similar qualities to what I describe above: more ideas than should fit into its page count, which is a good thing and what I love about RPG books (think the 1e [I]DMG [/I]as the archetype of this quality). [/QUOTE]
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