Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1681516" data-attributes="member: 10201">How much of the content is useful to someone not playing D20 System? What about a group of characters with no political ties/influence? More importantly, how well do you think it'd port to a high-tech setting? I looked at that, and it sounded really interesting. But it sounded like it was too tied to (1) magical pseudo-Medieval setting, (2) court-intrigue adventures, and (3) to a much lesser extent, D20 System. I'm not interested in paying for 10% of the content being statblocks, for any system, much less D20 System (which i'm not likely to run). And i don't forsee myself running anything involving court intrigue or politically-influential characters in the near future, so i figured i could just buy it later. Finally, i'm not likely to run anything lower tech level than Renaissance anytime soon, and even that is a setting without much magic (but with supers). So, i didn't not buy it because it's a book full of fluff. I didn't buy it because (1) it looked like it might be too much crunch for my tastes and (2) much more importantly, it didn't look useful to my specific situation. Same way a crunch-lover who doesn't use psionics wouldn't buy a book with a bunch of cool new psionic stuff. That's the danger in a relatively narrow topic. (A fleshed-out city council, etc., rather than a book on how to set up governments and generate political intrigue--i bought Dynasties & Demagogues.)But, then again, it may just be the advertising/reviews i read. I may have horribly misjudged it, so feel free to explain it to me better.</blockquote>

Verification