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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 3365960" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I definitely don't want a setting book to be largely made up of new 3e feats, skills, prestige classes and monster &amp; NPC stat blocks; or the equivalent in other games, but some kind of framework is good to help discipline the writers' creative process.&nbsp; I'd think that Gygar (F8), Rindim (Wiz3) is shorter than Gygar (powerful warrior), Rindim (mediocre wizard) and helps the GM a lot; whatever D&amp;D/d20 system game they run, or even if they're running Runequest etc, because it gives a useful jumping-off point for the GM.&nbsp; I do own one totally fluff setting book, Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World.&nbsp; It mentions a bunch of NPCs, characters from the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but in such an unstructured way it'd be very hard to use Titan as a campaign setting.&nbsp; I can tell Balthus Dire is a top-rank Fighter-Wizard, with some thought I can peg a level on him then start to assign levels to Yaztromo, Zanbar Bone and the rest, but if the writers had taken a moment to put Balthus Dire (Skill 10 Stamina 18 Magic 12) or whatever, I'd find it a lot easier to work out a D&amp;D/C&amp;C equivalent for all NPCs than when I have _nothing_ to go on.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 3365960, member: 463"] I definitely don't want a setting book to be largely made up of new 3e feats, skills, prestige classes and monster & NPC stat blocks; or the equivalent in other games, but some kind of framework is good to help discipline the writers' creative process. I'd think that Gygar (F8), Rindim (Wiz3) is shorter than Gygar (powerful warrior), Rindim (mediocre wizard) and helps the GM a lot; whatever D&D/d20 system game they run, or even if they're running Runequest etc, because it gives a useful jumping-off point for the GM. I do own one totally fluff setting book, Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World. It mentions a bunch of NPCs, characters from the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but in such an unstructured way it'd be very hard to use Titan as a campaign setting. I can tell Balthus Dire is a top-rank Fighter-Wizard, with some thought I can peg a level on him then start to assign levels to Yaztromo, Zanbar Bone and the rest, but if the writers had taken a moment to put Balthus Dire (Skill 10 Stamina 18 Magic 12) or whatever, I'd find it a lot easier to work out a D&D/C&C equivalent for all NPCs than when I have _nothing_ to go on. [/QUOTE]

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