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<blockquote data-quote="Vanuslux" data-source="post: 3286806" data-attributes="member: 937"><p>I've come to this thread now several times without being able to decide yes or no so I finally voted undecided. There's just too many factors to consider. Celestials have minimal impact on my setting, so I don't have a huge need for more stuff about them than what I already have in <strong>Anger of Angels</strong> and <strong>The Book of Exalted Deeds</strong>. </p><p></p><p>However, I can't say that I wouldn't look at it on the shelves to see if it would be more useful to me than those others, neither of which I'm terribly satisfied with (<strong>Anger of Angels</strong> is a phenominally well written product, but push too closely towards real world ideals of Heaven vs. Hell rather than the more fantasy world Celestia vs. the Abyss which I prefer for fantasy games. The Book of Exalted Deeds had the fantasy flavor but in my opinion suffered from trying too hard to be the companion piece to The Book of Vile Darkness (which I loved, but the same approach just didn't work as well for Good as it did for Evil), screwing with the focus and making a lot of it feel kind of forced so the ratio of inspiring/useful-to-uninteresting/unuseful was pretty poor. </p><p></p><p>Then again, I'm kind of particular about celestial related stuff. It's one of those subjects that makes me sometimes wish I was a d20 publisher so I could hire someone to write a celestial book to my tastes since I'm too lazy to write it myself (I have a hard time writing anything over 5k-10k words since I'm terribly distractable).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vanuslux, post: 3286806, member: 937"] I've come to this thread now several times without being able to decide yes or no so I finally voted undecided. There's just too many factors to consider. Celestials have minimal impact on my setting, so I don't have a huge need for more stuff about them than what I already have in [B]Anger of Angels[/B] and [B]The Book of Exalted Deeds[/B]. However, I can't say that I wouldn't look at it on the shelves to see if it would be more useful to me than those others, neither of which I'm terribly satisfied with ([B]Anger of Angels[/B] is a phenominally well written product, but push too closely towards real world ideals of Heaven vs. Hell rather than the more fantasy world Celestia vs. the Abyss which I prefer for fantasy games. The Book of Exalted Deeds had the fantasy flavor but in my opinion suffered from trying too hard to be the companion piece to The Book of Vile Darkness (which I loved, but the same approach just didn't work as well for Good as it did for Evil), screwing with the focus and making a lot of it feel kind of forced so the ratio of inspiring/useful-to-uninteresting/unuseful was pretty poor. Then again, I'm kind of particular about celestial related stuff. It's one of those subjects that makes me sometimes wish I was a d20 publisher so I could hire someone to write a celestial book to my tastes since I'm too lazy to write it myself (I have a hard time writing anything over 5k-10k words since I'm terribly distractable). [/QUOTE]
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