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<blockquote data-quote="Guacamole" data-source="post: 12941" data-attributes="member: 1606"><p><strong>venting over the splat books, especially tome/blood and song/silence</strong></p><p></p><p>First of all, I like the class books, I think they are cool and even if I don't end up using the classes inside, they give me ideas to use. That said, I hate how the classes are grouped together for the splatbooks. I know, I know, mucho dinero for a book for each class, but that would be better than having to split things and do a half-a**ed job for each class! Plus that way I wouldn't have to read about sorcerers and bards, my least favorite classes, when I want to read about wizards and thieves, my favorite classes.</p><p></p><p>I hate that Sorcerers get pimped out prestige classes like dragon disciple while wizards get.... um... guild mage and uh.... teleport guy! Cool! The pro-sorcerer bias in the game is starting to make me hate sorcerers as much as I hate bards, who somehow, have more historical knowledge and arcane lore than the bona fide academics in the game, the wizards... go figure... which is relevant because bards get some cool feats in song and silence that are like metamagic feats for music except they have no draw backs (that I remember off hand). </p><p></p><p>One more rant and then I'm done. I hate that ALL the books keep comparing the way sorcerers shape magic to the way a poet writes poetry... inate talent, which is such BS! IT TAKES LOTS OF PRACTICE USING QUANTAFIABLE LIGUISTIC EFFECTS TO WRITE POETRY! No Im not talking about the friday-night-poetry-slam-written-on-a-knapkin-full-of-angst-poetry, Im talking about real poetry, in which a poet writes something, labors over it for hours, puts it away for months, gets it out again, and labors over it more.</p><p></p><p>Ok, Guacamole will get back in the bowl with the chips</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guacamole, post: 12941, member: 1606"] [b]venting over the splat books, especially tome/blood and song/silence[/b] First of all, I like the class books, I think they are cool and even if I don't end up using the classes inside, they give me ideas to use. That said, I hate how the classes are grouped together for the splatbooks. I know, I know, mucho dinero for a book for each class, but that would be better than having to split things and do a half-a**ed job for each class! Plus that way I wouldn't have to read about sorcerers and bards, my least favorite classes, when I want to read about wizards and thieves, my favorite classes. I hate that Sorcerers get pimped out prestige classes like dragon disciple while wizards get.... um... guild mage and uh.... teleport guy! Cool! The pro-sorcerer bias in the game is starting to make me hate sorcerers as much as I hate bards, who somehow, have more historical knowledge and arcane lore than the bona fide academics in the game, the wizards... go figure... which is relevant because bards get some cool feats in song and silence that are like metamagic feats for music except they have no draw backs (that I remember off hand). One more rant and then I'm done. I hate that ALL the books keep comparing the way sorcerers shape magic to the way a poet writes poetry... inate talent, which is such BS! IT TAKES LOTS OF PRACTICE USING QUANTAFIABLE LIGUISTIC EFFECTS TO WRITE POETRY! No Im not talking about the friday-night-poetry-slam-written-on-a-knapkin-full-of-angst-poetry, Im talking about real poetry, in which a poet writes something, labors over it for hours, puts it away for months, gets it out again, and labors over it more. Ok, Guacamole will get back in the bowl with the chips [/QUOTE]
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