Do We Need any more d20 books?

[JoeGKushner]

Well, on Morrus' rant, one of the things I thought about, was do I personally need any more d20 books? I'm not talking about wanting but actual needing.

Yup.

I need some books like the old Capsystem promised when WoTC was first doing RPGs before Magic the Gahtering took over.

We still have no good system for creating gods, especially elevating characters to gods. Heck, I'm still using bits from the Primal order. I'd like for some official product to handle this, but I am looking forward to the Classic Play book by Mongoose.

We have no book on merchants, marketing or economoics. This was supposed to be one of the next books in the Capsystem line after they did a Primal Order sourcebook on the Norse Pantheon, among others.

We have a few books on prisons, but they tend to close over the actual prison construction itself or put them on different planes or magic dead islands.

How about you?

 

[Ryltar]

I agree with you. There are lots of unexplored areas, so to speak, in d20 "society".

Furthermore, I'd continue to buy books, if just to get another viewpoint on certain aspects, or to find something that, if I'd forgotten to implement, would have quite an impact on the realism of my campaigns.

And I like the art. Really.

 

[Meadred]

Well, as for needing new - as in not yet written or at least not yet found - d20 books, I'd love something about merchants, economics, etc. primarily for use in fantasy campaigns. I loved the "Dune Trader" supplement for Dark Sun, and would love to play a merchant character.

Apart from that, I have a few other needs/wants, but I think there are books covering those areas of interest already. I only have to find some loose cash...

Cheers,
Meadred

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Alright, You Primitive Screwheads, Listen Up!

There is NO SUCH THING as "too many d20 books"!! GET IT?

 

[philreed]

A good book (novel), for DMs looking to run games involving economics, is David Liss' The Coffee Trader.

www.davidliss.com

This book, and his other books, are easily some of the most inpiring books I've read in the last few years. Each is loaded with ideas a DM can swipe and, more importantly, they all inspire a slightly different way of thinking.

 

[crabclaw]

D20 is an industry, like everything else, where people earn a living, put food on the table for themselves and their families. There are obviously people out there who do want to buy. In my own defense, want and need are immaterial if people buy it they buy it.

 

[Alnag]

A book on merchant / guilds (in the original meaning - not a thieves guilds / and economics in general would be fine. A book on reneissance impact on medieaval DnD world would be cool too.

 

[Henry]

As far as I'm concerned, do I NEED more books? No. I have everything that could keep me and my friends gaming with new concepts, campaigns, character classes, and adventures for 20 years, easy, if not the rest of my life.

However, I'm an RPG junkie. I read it for entertainment. I read GURPS books for pleasure, I surf sites like this for the new and "ooh!" I read gaming material like some people read the latest Stephen King or Dean Koontz book. This therefore means I see things I want, and will likely pull new ideas from for a long time.

I can enumerate on one hand the d20 gaming books that I have gotten maximum utilty out of; but those purchases have been well worth the wait. Spycraft, for one, taught me that gaming innovations are quite possible in d20 and in fact sometimes lurk where you least expect them. The 3E player's handbook gives me everything I need to run a D&D game of endless permutation and combination, with no one being absolutely shut out of a fantasy character concept. The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting gives me a completely fleshed out game world which I could theoretically adventure in for the rest of my days. And that's really the biggest extent of my d20 "need" - the rest I have gleaned bits and pieces, yet used very little of.

 

[Fester]

Well, as for needing new - as in not yet written or at least not yet found - d20 books, I'd love something about merchants, economics, etc. primarily for use in fantasy campaigns.

Hi Meadred!

Have you seen A Magical Medieval Society - available as a pdf or book? It covers many of the things you mention and is well regarded. Well, by me at least

 

[Akrasia]

Need? No. Definitely not.

Want? In my case, no, but others clearly disagree, and so the steady stream of Complete Splatbooks, etc. will continue.