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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King of Old School" data-source="post: 2511222" data-attributes="member: 8789">It will be dual-statted for CoCd20 and BRP.  Keep in mind that this book has been written and awaiting print for awhile, and the primary markets are:* the many people who already bought the print run of CoC d20, and* those BRP fans who want the long-out-of-print DG, didn't buy it when it was still in print, but don't want to pay $80 on eBay for it.Players of non-CoC flavours of d20 are not a primary market for this book, except insofar as they're willing to adapt the CoCd20 writeups (which in most cases, isn't really hard anyways).  Gamers looking for a self-contained new game are likewise not a primary market for this book.  Keep in mind that it is and has always been a sourcebook for an existing game, not a new game in its own right; and the vast majority of the book is non-mechanical fluff, so system isn't really an issue.Of course, it's all irrelevant to me anyways -- I own both DG and DG:Countdown, as well as all of the DG fiction, and it's some of the greatest RPG writing ever.  I don't know that I necessarily want to shell out more money just to get the paltry amount of conversion material that will be added, for a system I own and like but don't play*.  Now, if the DG reprint sells enough copies that Arc Dream will finally publish the DG chapbooks (the only DG material I don't own) in compiled form, then I'll be a happy camper.  So to those of you who don't already own DG but have an interest in the material, I say buy it!KoOS* If I were to play DG, I'd either run straight BRP or more likely, use Spycraft 2.0 and pinch the necessary bits from CoCd20 like magic, artifacts and psychic powers.</blockquote>

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