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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarogoth" data-source="post: 569536" data-attributes="member: 3507">Another vote for KalamarAs already mentioned, the actual campaign setting for Kalamar has absolutely no rules in it, whatsoever -- it's pure 'campaign setting', and as others has said, one of the most consistent and 'thought-through' that I know -- all the other books (including the wincey VDH!) are mostly extra mechanics books that you can take or leave. There is virtually no d20 gaming content in it to speak of -- this can make it feel (as others have commented like a history textbook) -- but, personally, I like that level of realism and detail, and it's very well done.Gaming content-wise, the same, of course, can be said for the Ghelspad of the Scarred Lands in the majority -- though it has an appendix of Prestige classes. However, in my experience it's slightly more insidious... For example there's only nine pages of text on the Gods, and the demigods aren't mentioned at all... and yet you'll read that the Drifting Isle inhabitants worship Erias, and yet the only information on him is in the Divine and the Defeated... etc. [Another personal bugbear with the Ghelspad is the lack of index.]Trouble is, which ever setting you buy, you'll guarantee that you'll keep going back for the other books from the same stable -- at least that's what's happened with me. Doubly unfortunately, because I rather like both. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />However, if you wanted a single book, I'd suggest you plump for the Kalamar setting. That's certainly the best 'value'. Just my opinion, of course...</blockquote>

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