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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8530262" data-attributes="member: 5948">Yeah, I backed the Borderlands and Beyond kickstarter, which introduces IK-style Warlocks and covers some of the Hordes content, and we got the first round of pdfs a while back.  The content choices are a bit odd, especially when combined with what was left out of the Monsternomicon.  B&B doesn't cover the skorne at all, and there's no option for playable gatormen or blindwater warlocks.  There's every variety of Tatlywurm you could ever imagine in the Monsternomicon, which are nice to have but hardly integral to the Iron Kingdoms, but dragonspawn are abstracted to a mere two varieties (from the vast Everblight selection) and there's no skorne critters at all.  There's no quick statbloks for NPC gunmages, warcasters etc for use as antagonists, nor much in the way of quick statblocks for warjacks.  You have to play a lot of these iconic IK character types using PC rules if you want to use them as antagonists, which is annoying.  And while we're at it, there's no mechanics for following Cyriss, either.  PP have a bit of a history about making weird content choices for their RPGs though.  The old non-5e IKRPG put out a number of huge, gorgeous hardbacks and still never got around to providing stats for Cryx critters, which is a bit like publishing an entire Dragonlance game line and never statting up draconians.What I HOPE they're doing is making the books cover geographical areas and the people within.  Requiem was the core Iron Kingdoms, B&B is mostly the nearby non-human lands of Ios, Rhul, and the kriels.  They've hinted that the next expansion will also cover a place that's never really been looked at before.  I'm guessing Zu given how prominent it's been in the recent Protectorate metaplot, but perhaps it'll be a part of a book that covers further-out regions like Skorne or Alchiere or the lands of Everblight too.The bindings of the books - I'm not sure about.  They certainly strike me as being a bit tenuous, the hardbacks easily fall open and lie completely flat.  It's a very weird 'feel' if you're used to the way most hardback RPGs are bound, and i instinctively don't trust it to be robust.  PP said in some of their posts on the kickstarter that they deliberately chose a binding method that would allow the books to lie flat while being used in game, but they've also said that a few proofs that weren't correctly bound were accidentally delivered to backers.  So I'm not sure what's going on there.</blockquote>

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