Justin D. Jacobson
First Post
Yes, if you want to get the full campaign setting, you'd want to get both books. OQL covers only Eos; HR covers the rest of the system excluding Eos. It's hard to call Helios Rising a supplement to the core setting. It stands on its own. (Not to mention that it's more than twice the size of OQL.)Pinotage said:
By way of analogy, it would be like if the Eberron book covered Khorvaire, and the next Eberron book covered the rest of the world other than Khorvaire. Or if the FR book covered the Sword Coast, and the second FR book covered the rest of the world other than the Sword Coast. If you only wanted to run a campaign in Khorvaire or the Sword Coast, you'd do just fine with the first books; if you only wanted to run a campaign elsewhere, you'd do just fine with the second books. In either case, you'd get a ton of information by buying the other book that you could still use in your campaign: items, feats, equipment, monsters, etc. If you wanted to run a campaign that spanned the whole world, you'd certainly want both books.
If you want to run a campaign that takes place only on Eos, you only need OQL, but HR will have a ton of material you'd readily be able to use. If you want to run a planet-hopping campaign that never touches Eos, you only need HR, but OQL will have a ton of material you'd readily be able to use. Frankly, HR is a great resource for a planet-hopping campaign in any setting. With a few tweaks, you could drop the individual planets into a Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Frontiers, etc. setting.
