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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1765280" data-attributes="member: 7394">I think this is generally useful overall. It was good to finally see a review on Serpent Kingdoms. The interview with Monte Cook was also interesting, as always.  The main problem I see with this was the obviously biased and slanted review of the Planar Handbook. Apparently the main criticism of this book in the review is that it isn't Planescape. Well duh! I like the comment from the review "Why drop the original flavor and go for the mundane?" Planescape as a setting was a misnomer in the first place since the planes have been part of D&D since 1E, yet everyone seems to be working from this annoying and misguided perception that nothing came before it when it was released in mid-2nd edition. I'll be honest here, I was never a fan of the Planescape setting. I didn't like sigil, I didn't like the art, and I didn't like the lingo. At most, every product could be refined down to a few pages that actually presented useful material on the planes that I could use. That said, the Planar Handbook gives fans of Planescape more information for their 3E game than any other product released to date, and yet people complain because it isn't Planescape. It really just shows that you can't make certain people happy so there's really no sense bothering in the first place. Do I think Planar Handbook is the best D&D book ever? Of course not, but I do think that it succeeds to some degree in what it set out to accomplish. As for the pay or not to pay issue, while I aknowledge the effort that went into this, paying for a review zine isn't something I'm willing to do unless it also has a good amount of game content I can use. No offense, but I can get this kind of material here at ENWorld, at D20zines.com, or a number of other quality sites. I don't begrudge anyone who is willing to pay for this type of e-zine, but I won't be one of them. Frankly, whenever I download an E-zine, I usually look it over for anything useful, which takes about 10 minutes, and then delete the file.</blockquote>

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