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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 3370907" data-attributes="member: 1129">How about the various 'guides to x&quot;? I've seen Dragonriders of Pern, Shanarra, Wheel of Time, and other ficiton lines with resoruce books. Heck, the DK line of books and Star Wars have done more for my campaign than WoTC or WEG.Not always true. Some games have exlusive content. Some are simply exclusive. Some are rereleased latter. Rules companions are good but now it's an extra cost. Is it a flat cost that you get one rules companion? Do you have to subscribe?Disagree. Mixing this and that is usually only good for a generic setting and in such a case, perfect for a 'fluff' book as it's assumptions probably stretch back to Tolkien. On the other hand, if it's a low magic setting, that's going to pretty much knock out the warforged part and the dragon and unless it's Norse based, the dark elf no? Setting should be the starting boundries of &quot;what is&quot; not &quot;what can the players drag in.&quot; Settings should act as a guide to what's standard and normal and provide room for exceptions but not make the exceptions the norm. If the exceptions become the norm, there's no point in having ANY campaign setting as it's all the same. I can agree that arguing with such players such but then I have to ask them, &quot;What's your vested interest if Drizzt is alive?&quot; to get to the crux of the matter.You ain't lying about the FR! I've got about three Waterdeep books (my favorite being the box set City of Splendors.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 3370907, member: 1129"] How about the various 'guides to x"? I've seen Dragonriders of Pern, Shanarra, Wheel of Time, and other ficiton lines with resoruce books. Heck, the DK line of books and Star Wars have done more for my campaign than WoTC or WEG. Not always true. Some games have exlusive content. Some are simply exclusive. Some are rereleased latter. Rules companions are good but now it's an extra cost. Is it a flat cost that you get one rules companion? Do you have to subscribe? Disagree. Mixing this and that is usually only good for a generic setting and in such a case, perfect for a 'fluff' book as it's assumptions probably stretch back to Tolkien. On the other hand, if it's a low magic setting, that's going to pretty much knock out the warforged part and the dragon and unless it's Norse based, the dark elf no? Setting should be the starting boundries of "what is" not "what can the players drag in." Settings should act as a guide to what's standard and normal and provide room for exceptions but not make the exceptions the norm. If the exceptions become the norm, there's no point in having ANY campaign setting as it's all the same. I can agree that arguing with such players such but then I have to ask them, "What's your vested interest if Drizzt is alive?" to get to the crux of the matter. You ain't lying about the FR! I've got about three Waterdeep books (my favorite being the box set City of Splendors.) [/QUOTE]

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