Forked Thread: 3.5 Discounts (FREE TOOLBOX)

[DM_Jeff]

Happy belated Birthday Ghostwind!

-DM Jeff

 

[Ghostwind]

Best table in Ultimate Toolbox: "Uses for a gnome"

Even my son laughed at it.

 

[Treebore]

Thanks Ghostwind! I delayed getting this with my monthly budget to April in order to pick up somone's collection of D20 Dragonlance (Yes, including Towers of Sorcery, Races, etc...), and it was eating me up that I may have been able to win the contest. There is no way I could have gotten it faster than you did, so thanks for letting me know I made the right decision!

 

[Treebore]

Congratulations on winning the contest and Happy Belated Birthday to you and your son, etc...!

 

[jim pinto]

Yeah, that belongs to my son (his birthday was the 18th) - we had a joint b-day party last Sunday for both of us plus my father-in-law who shares the same birthday as me.

it only took 30 books, 2 million written words, and 600 enworld posts… but i finally made someone laugh

whew

i can rest now

ahem. ghostwind. send me your address, so i can get this crate of books out of my apartment.

 

[Ghostwind]

ahem. ghostwind. send me your address, so i can get this crate of books out of my apartment.

PM sent!

 

[DM_Jeff]

** CONTEST TIME **

Since I'm not sitting in an apartment of books like jim, all I can offer is a free signed copy of Original Toolbox...to the first one who can reveal in Ultimate Toolbox Table 6-105 all the pop-culture winks/nods/references.

Here's a hint. There's five. And they're tough. Give it a shot!

please note aeg employees or folks who already won stuff are not eligible

-DM Jeff

 

[Zustiur]

I'm confused. Does the Ultimate Toolbox overlap the Toolbox at all? Is there a point to having both?

 

[DM_Jeff]

I'm confused. Does the Ultimate Toolbox overlap the Toolbox at all? Is there a point to having both?

Thanks for an easy question! Does UT overlap with original Toolbox? Here and there, yes. For example, in Toolbox we name about 20 cities and 20 lands. In UT we name nearly a hundred of both and none of those entries are taken from original Toolbox.

That's one example. Here's another.

In the first book we had one table called "crime and punishment". In Ultimate Toolbox we have prisoners, crimes 1 & 2, local criminal gangs, punishment 1 & 2, an essay on running fantasy criminal trials, types of trials, trial complications, sentencing, arbiters, simple and complex bribes, etc.

We cover topics from the first book in heavier detail in the second, with very, very little duplication at all.

Hope this helps: Having both books isn't necessary. Today, given the choice, Ultimate Toolbox is the bigger, more detailed of the two, and you could tackle all topics with it. If you happen to have the first as well, then you simply have that many more charts and ideas to pool from!

-DM Jeff

 

[jim pinto]

Thanks for an easy question! Does UT overlap with original Toolbox? Here and there, yes. For example, in Toolbox we name about 20 cities and 20 lands. In UT we name nearly a hundred of both and none of those entries are taken from original Toolbox.

That's one example. Here's another.

In the first book we had one table called "crime and punishment". In Ultimate Toolbox we have prisoners, crimes 1 & 2, local criminal gangs, punishment 1 & 2, an essay on running fantasy criminal trials, types of trials, trial complications, sentencing, arbiters, simple and complex bribes, etc.

We cover topics from the first book in heavier detail in the second, with very, very little duplication at all.

Hope this helps: Having both books isn't necessary. Today, given the choice, Ultimate Toolbox is the bigger, more detailed of the two, and you could tackle all topics with it. If you happen to have the first as well, then you simply have that many more charts and ideas to pool from!

-DM Jeff

All of the pickpocket charts from #1 appear in UT, but this time they are about 100 times better. We've added some really cool PLOT devices to the pickpocket chart that I've never seen in a book before. I'm really proud of all the letters, writs, and personal affectations we added.

The Tavern Names appear again, this time in the appendix as an afterthought. The amount of overlap in the books is about 1-2%, so… yeah… owning both is good. UT is the more useful of the two, in my opinion.