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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 324595" data-attributes="member: 518"><p>Well my top dissapointments....not neccesarily horribly poor..</p><p></p><p>1) The WOTC classbooks In general. I find most of the prestige classes either too offbeat, or undesireable for my campaign style,and was hoping that they would be more used for "belonging" to something (an organization with the perks of such) than simply as class to get cool new feats and special abilities. Each book does have a few good points, but hardly worth the price tags they charge, at least for me.</p><p></p><p>2) HBG. Yep cool for newbies; Not marketed as such though either. Expensive for the page count. And I often wonder jut what the actual percentage of newbies that were brought in by 3Rd edition. I see the vast majority of 3E players as established gamers. I can't imagine that even at least 1% of the PHB's sold was for a brand new gamer.</p><p></p><p>3) The GH gazetter. Not the LGH Gaz, but the 32 pager. Cool product 21 or 22 years ago maybe..The original Folio was fantastic, but it had a better map, better writing, and overall was much more interesting to boot. I know the premise of the item, but the Scarred Lands Gaz did a far better job or providing a really cool setting with a minimal page count.</p><p></p><p>4) The DM's screen. Flimsy, and close to useless. One of those new mastercreen things with Angramainyu's tables would be worlds better.</p><p></p><p>5) Deep Horizon. I just thought the plot, and the new race was just plain 'ol silly. I'm not a big fan of the core mods anyway (barring FoF and TSC), but this was by far the worst, especially after Skip had just put out Raider's of Galath's Roost in Dungeon which I thought was really, really good. I had high hopes and was very dissapointed.</p><p></p><p>From the get-go I was very particular regarding other companies D20 materials, so I suppose that is why 5 WOTC products made my list...In the begining I had more "faith" (if you will) with WOTC. Now I'm just as, if not more, scrutinizing with their products.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 324595, member: 518"] Well my top dissapointments....not neccesarily horribly poor.. 1) The WOTC classbooks In general. I find most of the prestige classes either too offbeat, or undesireable for my campaign style,and was hoping that they would be more used for "belonging" to something (an organization with the perks of such) than simply as class to get cool new feats and special abilities. Each book does have a few good points, but hardly worth the price tags they charge, at least for me. 2) HBG. Yep cool for newbies; Not marketed as such though either. Expensive for the page count. And I often wonder jut what the actual percentage of newbies that were brought in by 3Rd edition. I see the vast majority of 3E players as established gamers. I can't imagine that even at least 1% of the PHB's sold was for a brand new gamer. 3) The GH gazetter. Not the LGH Gaz, but the 32 pager. Cool product 21 or 22 years ago maybe..The original Folio was fantastic, but it had a better map, better writing, and overall was much more interesting to boot. I know the premise of the item, but the Scarred Lands Gaz did a far better job or providing a really cool setting with a minimal page count. 4) The DM's screen. Flimsy, and close to useless. One of those new mastercreen things with Angramainyu's tables would be worlds better. 5) Deep Horizon. I just thought the plot, and the new race was just plain 'ol silly. I'm not a big fan of the core mods anyway (barring FoF and TSC), but this was by far the worst, especially after Skip had just put out Raider's of Galath's Roost in Dungeon which I thought was really, really good. I had high hopes and was very dissapointed. From the get-go I was very particular regarding other companies D20 materials, so I suppose that is why 5 WOTC products made my list...In the begining I had more "faith" (if you will) with WOTC. Now I'm just as, if not more, scrutinizing with their products. [/QUOTE]
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