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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sinistar" data-source="post: 260822" data-attributes="member: 1945">First off, thanks Anthony for replying to this thread. You have been really cool about this.I am a big fan of FR. but I have bought just about every book that WOTC has put out for 3E because I am a greedy little gnome. That said, I beileve that the setting is more important than the rules. The Guild mage prestige class was presented in both Tome and Blood and in the MoF. I read T&B first and was not interested in the prestige class at all. Why? because it was a generic guild mage. Whee. That is like a generic mage. Um, he is cool because of... stuff. But with MoF it was a guild mage of Waterdeep.Suddenly the class was worth looking at. Why? because I know a little something about Waterdeep. I have a mage there in a game I run. Maybe it could be worth looking into. I buy a ton of gaming material every month. Far more than I will ever use, but the one thing I skip every time is the book of prestige classes and feats. Why? without the bit of fluff that makes it useful, they are just pages of stats. I could read a statistics book for that. The only reason I find this at all odd is that I thought that "crunch" books had their day already. Now that the ELH is out, what other rules can you print? I think in just the WOTC core books there are too many flavorless Prestige Classes, too many wacky feats for me to buy another. And this is not counting what the other guys have put out. I think there will always be a market for new spells and possibly for new equipment. But how many of those can you make? I understand that the real world always keeps us from making what we want to make, but I am very surprised on this angle. I would have thought it would be completely reversed. That the crunch books have had their day and all WOTC has left to print are books of fluff. (just to continue with the analogy) But I guess I was mistaken...</blockquote>

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