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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 85907" data-attributes="member: 546">What? Psion! We actually agree on something? LOL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Villains is a better book than Minions, I will give it that much (but nothing else).Psion, I hope you will give Arms & Armor a chance when you finally do see it in a store. It's hardly essential, but a very nice supplement to have, IMO. YMMV. TQF has a much smaller but still useful selection of new arms & armors that I really liked.I had seen Villains and Minions before Arms & Armor and not liked them much at all, but decided to give A&A a fair chance at my gaming dollar. That said, of course, I waited and read it for half an hour very carefully before plunking down my $25. My LGS has a comfy couch for just such an occasion, thankfully, and reading stuff is encouraged (either that, or the owner is lax because I spend so much $ in her shop, LOL). Because I liked A&A so much, I am giving their forthcoming books a fair chance: Alchemy & Herbalists and Spells & Magic seem like they should be useful and fun, if hardly essential, supplements. But I'm a sucker for new spells... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />I do agree that Bastion's format is expensive---too expensive for the page count in most cases, with the exception of A&A. Keep in mind that their printing costs must be atrociously high going with a slick, glossy all color format, so I think the "sticker shock" $25 price tags are probably justified to warrant the line's profitability. I would rather get a cheaper B&W version than pay for that fancy extra stuff, personally. Because of the $25 price tag, It took an hour of deliberation to decide to buy A&A (30 minutes of solid reading plus 30 minutes of debating its merits over other items I wanted to purchase that day). If A&A had been $15 or $20 I wouldn't have hesitated as much.</blockquote>

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