FFG apparently coming out with class books....

[trancejeremy]

In hardcover, too.

Can't seem too much on the FFG website about it, but it was mentioned on the Gaming Something or others's news.

Only thing I could find was

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/rants.html

But didn't look all that hard...


Seems to be competing more with the WOTC books.

 

[thundershot]

I just don't want to see them change what they're doing now. Three excellent hardcovers, and another on the way, I hope Way of the Sword continues the progress already started in the other 3 (soon to be 5) L&L books...


Chris

 

[JoeGKushner]

My only problem is saturation. I love d20 products, and D&D but I'm starting to have to pick and choose what I can support and what I cannot support. Setting specific stuff is starting to fall by the wayside, even when it has crunchy bits in favor of books that are all crunchy bits.

Is anyone else having this problem?

It's hitting me personally on two fronts. Time and cash. Now I receive some material for review from publishers and websites, mostly modules, so I buy rule books and core books for review and playing purposes, but even so, I'm still falling behind. The Scarred Lands setting, for example, has so many books, that in between reading Fading Suns, Dragonstar, and official WoTC modules, I'm trying to keep up with Hollowfaust, Divine & Defeated, Wise and Wicked and the last two sourcebooks that just came out.

 

[d20Dwarf]

I feel your pain, Joe. I was a d20 collector and fan before I started producing d20 books, and I started to have a hard time keeping up. Now I just buy the products that are must haves from companies I know and trust. I think this is where most d20 buyers are headed as well. I think this is also the reason d20 companies are putting out so many crunchy bits. Besides the general obsession with them (which I too find a bit distasteful), I think companies are trying to establish themselves as truly masterful of the d20 system. Its much easier to get someone to buy your book full of spells than your new campaign setting. But, after selling them a few high quality books of new rules and such, that new setting book might stand a chance of catching their eye.

So, with the Way books I really don't want to just ride the wave of d20 crunchy products, and I'm also very mindful of the saturation effect of having so many "class books" on the market. That's why I'm developing the Way books as something different than just traditional classbooks, I'm trying to make them true sourcebooks. Every PrC will have a full organization to go along with it. In addition to the new feats and equipment, there will be expanded rules and rules systems (such as the expanded mounted combat and acrobatic combat rules in Way of the Sword) that any character will find useful. I'm not trying to preach that we have some brilliant new concept for d20 sourcebooks, but I do think the Way books will stand out from the pack.

 

[dafrca]

My only problem is saturation. I love d20 products, and D&D but I'm starting to have to pick and choose what I can support and what I cannot support. Setting specific stuff is starting to fall by the wayside, even when it has crunchy bits in favor of books that are all crunchy bits.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes, I have passed up a few products this last year because I needed to budget my d20 spending. I have even passed up products others said where good because I wanted to buy only so much at one time.

However, I think this is a natural cycle. Lots of people come out to publish and the better ones last through the thining that will come.

dafrca

 

[thundershot]

Well, I only have a few WotC products to buy this year (Deities & Demigods, Epic-Level Handbook, Monster Manual II, and whatever strikes my fancy in the 4th quarter), so that leaves some wiggle room to try other companies. I buy all of the FFG hardcovers, all of the AEG Adventure Keep books, and taste other things here and there, depending on my mood. I also picked up Relics & Rituals, Dragons, and Evil.... with Twilight of Atlantis coming soon.

I would love to sample others, but I just have to have the right book...

Although, admittedly, when you have several successes with a company, it makes it easier to pick up other books. If Traps & Treachery, Mythic Races, and Seafarer's Handbook weren't so good, I'd never think twice about passing up a book called Spells & Spellcraft, but.. here I am, anxiously waiting for this book to come out.

Chris

 

[Greatwyrm]

I think everybody is feeling flooded by new d20 stuff. I pick up a number of titles every month, but I'm having to cut down. The first one to go was Star Wars. I wasn't in to it as much as some other stuff and the revised core rules decision didn't help any.

Oh, well. Time is money. If I worked more, I'd have enough to buy all of them and no time to read them.

 

[Erik Mona]

Guys,

Don't worry too much. I edit a d20 magazine with a paid circulation of 60,000, and I don't even come close to getting all the stuff. There's just too much out there to worry about buying everything.

In the beginning, I bought everything. That means I spent money on "The Horror Beneath" and "The Foundation: A World in Black and White." If the d20 glut saves even one child from such a horrible fate, it is indeed a good thing.

--Erik

 

[Morrus]

Guys,

Don't worry too much. I edit a d20 magazine with a paid circulation of 60,000, and I don't even come close to getting all the stuff. There's just too much out there to worry about buying everything.

Me too. I have a lot of stuff, but most of it from the first year of d20. Now, with 100-odd publishers out there I see perhaps 10% of it all at most. And muchof what I've got I haven't even looked at (we're talking adventures here - thank goodness that phase has calmed down a bit!)

60,000 readers! Hah! My site has more regular readers than your magazine! Ner ner ner ner ner!

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

You tell him Morrus!!! En world kicks butt!


eh hem but you know polyhedron does have those really cool mini-games, so it's ok too, right?