50 dollars ear marked for PDFs. What to buy?

[Michelle Lyons]

Please do get Advanced d20 Magic. I think you'd enjoy it, based on your reaction to Slayers.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Since there's already some shameless self promotion going on, I'll mention a little book I wrote called Fifty New Ways to Blow Things Up (Starlanko the Magnificient's Big Book of Evocations). Because you can never have too many ways to blow things up.

 

[Napftor]

...Especially considering I've been toying with the thought of...Non Player Compendium I...

Oh, sure, something of mine I didn't plug.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Vascant - How easily extensible is NPC Designer? I am not in the market for a "core only" designer. I use scads of third party d20 stuff, and if I can't put it in easier than I could write up the NPC by hand, it's not worth my time (this has been the consistent failing of all the electronic support on the market). Tall order, I know.

Auld Grump - it'd be cheaper to buy the Print version of Wilderlands stuff. And compared against below, that's not seeming like a bargain. Not to mention that I talked myself out of getting wilderlands a month ago (and got blasted for doing it publicly...) Campaign Planners I already have. DL gives me hives. And I don't think there is a Legends & Lairs volume I don't have... I rounded out my collection when they had their $5 sale.


Right now I'm looking at:

• Blood and Space Bundles $16.95
• Curses $4.00
• DM Design Kit $3.96
• Conjurer: Core Specialist Wizard $1.40
• Diviner $1.40
• Evoker $1.40
• Transmuter $1.40
• Under the Mountain 4 $2.99
• Blackmoor $17.14

Which comes out to a bit over 50.

With some hankering for:

• Advanced Magic ($18.40)
• Mastering Iron Heroes ($7.20)
• Sanctum & Sigil ($15.11)
• Folkloric - Sahasra ($7.95)

I could swap out Curses + DM Design Kit for Sahasra or Mastering Iron Heroes
or
Drop the Blood & Space Bundle or Blackmoor for Both, or for Advanced Magic or Sanctum & Sigil.

Well, there are at least two sheets that I still use from the DM Design kit - the Chase matrix and the Mystery form. Most of the others (though not all) have been taken over by the Campaign Planner series. (My most used PDFs.)

I also still use sheets from The World Builder's Handbook. (I have a weakness for forms...)

As for Wilderlands... where can I find it cheaper in print? The last place I looked was definitely higher, but I would love to have a hardcover of the Citystate. (So many happy memories, all the way back to the '70s. )

DL is a setting that I had great fun running, and a terrible time playing. For what it is worth my players (some of them who also tried to play in the aforementioned 'terrible time playing') also had fun. We had a DM who didn't want us to read the books, but then complained (well, whined really) that we didn't do the same things the characters in the book did. I played Raistlin slowly turning Good for example. So I both like DL and can understand the allergic reaction.

The L&L $5.00 sale hit while I was in a straitened financial state. Otherwise I would already have 'em all in print.

Your list seems like a good one, happy hunting!

The Auld Grump

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Ooohh, I forgot - the old Historic series for AD&D 2nd ed. had some nice bits. A Mighty Fortress was one of the starting points for my homebrew setting for example (I actually started the groundwork for it under 2nd ed.) Well worth $4.

The Auld Grump, who suspects that you already have the Magical Medieval Society books...

 

[Psion]

As for Wilderlands... where can I find it cheaper in print? The last place I looked was definitely higher, but I would love to have a hardcover of the Citystate.

DriveThruRPG PDF - 24.99
Buy.com Print- 20.99

The 20% off coupon would put them just about even, but even then, I see added value in print.

 

[Samuel Leming]

If you don't already have it, I'd suggest Morningstar from Goodman Games. It's a fascinating "golden-age of magic" type setting. It was one of the WotC setting search semi-finalists and I like it quite a bit more than I liked Eberron. It's more... sleek.

I'm going to pick up Blackmoor before Christmas.

Sam

 

[TheAuldGrump]

DriveThruRPG PDF - 24.99
Buy.com Print- 20.99

The 20% off coupon would put them just about even, but even then, I see added value in print.

Thanks! Ordering now.

The Auld Grump

 

[Vigilance]

Two words: Super Agents

 

[tetsujin28]

Dogs in the Vineyard
Anything Iron Heroes