Canadian $ at parity! I'm loaded and looking to buy PDFs!

[Ry]

OK, so with the Canadian dollar hitting parity and a nice fat paycheck after some very, very long hours, I need some help choosing how to spend between $100-$200 on .pdfs

I own a colour printer, so colour is great. Size is not a factor, but quality is. A high quality 3 page .pdf might be of more use to me than 100 pages of crap.

But the biggest concern is getting strong Open Game Content, especially fluff over crunch. I want to buy the best OGL material out there. Closed material can be cool, but I've got lots of it and it only has so much use to me for my projects.

So what should I get?

 

[freyar]

Same here. I feel very much like I picked the right time to get a job in Canada.

So what are the good PDFs? I've heard good things about the vampiric mouse's Iconics of Fantasy (hope I got the title right), but what else? WotBS, I suppose...

 

[Gundark]

I'm looking to shop too . But from American vendors

 

[Monkey King]

Let me be the first to welcome our new Canadian overlords!

$25 will get you six Arabian Nights from Open Design. Or $16 will get you a year's subscription to Kobold Quarterly.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Not knowing what you have, but....

From Stone to Steel by Monkey God/Highmoon - great stuff for running non-standard D&D settings. From the same publisher(s) Frost & Fur - what Frostburn should have been!

Tome of Horrors Revised by Necromancer Games. Awesome! And the PDF is more useful (to me at the least) than the print version.

Steam & Steel by E.N. Publishing. I really wanted this, and was not disappointed. The sequels in the series are not bad, either.Also from E.N. Publishing (help keep E.N.World afloat) is Elements of Magic: Mythic Earth, I am currently using the system for a Spycraft/Steampunk game. I also rather like Librum Equitus Compiled, some good, basic prestige classes.

Book of Templates Deluxe Edition 3.5 by Silverthorne Games, if you like templates than this will keep you happy for months.

From Adamant Games - Corsair, an excellent ship combat system for D20, and Hot Pursuit - decent, easy to use chase rules for D20.

Pretty much any of the Legends & Lore PDFs by Fantasy Flight - at $5 each you can't go far wrong, and there are some greats. City Works was so much better than Cityscape, Sorcery & Steam goes great with Steam & Steel (yes, I have a thing about Steampunk...), and Darkness & Dread are the ones I consider best of a great bunch.

Expeditious Retreat has some great books in the Magical Society series, and their Monster Geographica is another great series - breaking monsters down by terrain type.

And the ones I use every single week - all of the Campaign Planner series by Ronin Arts.

The Auld Grump

 

[blargney the second]

I think it's very cool that it was on Eeee Ennn World that I learned about the exchange rate being over par for the first time in my life. It's the most fun news feed ever.
-blarg

 

[Ry]

I'm especially interested in the fluff side of things; I already picked up Classics of Fantasy: Iconics that Mouse wrote.

 

[Pinotage]

I'm not sure if you're an Arcanis fan or not, but Arcanis has got some of the best fluff in the business. You can pick up almost the entire collection of pdfs from Paradigm Concepts for the amount of money you're talking.

I'll also second the Expeditious Retreat Magical Medieval Society series - some fantastic stuff in there that can really open up a campaign world.

Pinotage

 

[Ry]

How much of Arcanis is OGC?

 

[Pinotage]

How much of Arcanis is OGC?

Not much, I'm afraid. Then again, in many cases you'd be hard pressed to find good fluff as OGC.

Pinotage