Complete Overload

[Numion]

How can people wake up to the PrC and feat glut just now, considering that it's been going for three friggin years?!

No, really. There are already thousands of PrCs out for d20. Mongoose has more titles than WotC. And thats just one company. I don't see how this is a recent thing, and I don't see how it's somehow started by WotC.

 

[Nightfall]

Uhm probably cause I don't use Mongoose! I stick with S&SS logo stuff. Along with some GR stuff. Oh and you can never have too many monsters.

 

[Mystery Man]

no overwhelmage here...

What do you focus on?

I pretty much stick with WotC product (cuz I'm an FR beeawtch) and really only buy the occasional D20 product with Monkeygod being my fav. I agree with Merric on the design tool thing.

Not overwhelmed.

 

[Vaxalon]

...look through the products and pick and choose carefully what will be available in his campaign, and hands the resulting much shorter list ot the players - the whole problem becomes far less problematic.

This is what I do.

 

[Vaxalon]

Oh yeah, how I wish I was still living in that fabulous age where all my afternoons and evenings I had I could fill with ...

I did them for my gameworld in a week, probably a total of ten hours work.

 

[jester47]

WotC purchases stop with me at Unearthed Arcana.

From what serpent kingdoms describe, I may or may not pick it up. After UA its only the FR stuff and even then discriminately. I might go with the players guide to the planes if it is good and has Sigil and MotP updates in it.

Eventually I will pick up some of the wilderlands stuff (players guide, CSIO, Wilderlands Boxed Set) and depending on how blackmoor comes off I might pick that up. NG stuff gets carefuly looked at before purchase. So someone warn WotC! I am almost at the end of my buying curve!!! Hahahahaaa!

Aaron.

 

[Olive]

I don't feel overwealmedin the slightest. 2e era TSR was totally different, not least because these books are stand alone, and they produce about one a month, including setting stuff.

Sure, there are a millin and one feats that I'll never use, but so what? Who knows when I'll want to make the particular NPC who I'll need it for?

 

[ThirdWizard]

If a player wants to do something, they bring it to me and ask. I look over it for a while, consider it carefully, then either allow it or don't. That way I don't have to do the digging for them. Although, I do for the NPCs.

 

[Staffan]

I'm so trying not to make comparisons to 2e-era TSR. I really am. But it's frustrating to see the original plan for not overwhelming folks with splatbooks tossed by the wayside.

WOTC appears to be doing about one RPG book per month, give or take. I don't feel like counting them now, but I recall that TSR published over 50 books per year in the 90s (and that's a conservative estimate).

 

[barsoomcore]

I will say that WotC's books used to be pretty much clearly at the top of the d20 pile -- always worth picking up.

Not so clear-cut anymore. Complete Warrior stirs me not at all, and is it just me or is the art TERRIBLE? Not at all up to the standards of other WotC books. I thought Draconomicon suffered that way,too.

At the same time, the other d20 publishers have really picked up the pace. Mutants and Masterminds is one of the best put-together RPG products I've ever seen, and Privateer Press is nothing but gold. Skull and Bones is likewise very nice indeed, and the list goes on.

I don't see WotC contributing to a glut. They seem in danger of getting overwhelmed by the quality of their competitors, frankly.