Is "The Book of the Righteous" worth it?

[Taelorn76]

I almost picked this up today, but I figured I should ask around first.

Also was checking out "The Complete Book of Eldritch Might" same question is it worth it?

 

[Hjorimir]

It is a good book with a solid cosmology design and evolution of the various churches. It pretty much allows you to drop a sophisticated pantheon onto a world and you're good to go. This is definitely designed for homebrews.

 

[Nightfall]

Good for homebrews, decent for other generic D&D worlds that lack a cohesive religious view. Plus Holy Warrior class is worth a look see.

Complete BoEM is good because it's a great all in one source for the entire series, updates to 3.5 AND has ideas on using stuff from those sources in AU.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

I'd reccomend BotR to any DM that needs some inspiration for a homebrewed Pantheon, or a general need to create gods with some depth and plausibility.

BoEM is a great Arcane Resource for players or GM's, and the Nexus section (III)has some great locations/places of power for GM's.

Both quality books. BotR is just a plain "great read" too.

 

[Crothian]

Depends solely on what your needs are. BoR is a well written book filled with a cosmology that works very well together. It is perhpas the single greatest write up of gods in a RPG suppliment. But if you have no need for that, it's value drops.

 

[Desdichado]

Have you read the reviews here on the site?

 

[WayneLigon]

Complete Book of Eldritch Might is wonderful. It has tons of new spells, many of which fill in 'gaps' in the D&D spell repetoire (such as Teleport Block and Teleport Trace). It has the expected magic items, monsters, PrC's and Feats but many are tied into specific locations so that you get a greater feeling of depth and purpose to them.

 

[shilsen]

Complete Book of Eldritch Might is wonderful. It has tons of new spells, many of which fill in 'gaps' in the D&D spell repetoire (such as Teleport Block and Teleport Trace). It has the expected magic items, monsters, PrC's and Feats but many are tied into specific locations so that you get a greater feeling of depth and purpose to them.

Umm, BoR = Book of the Righteous

 

[Taelorn76]

Thanks for the help everyone. I don't plan on running a homebrew just yet, just started DMing recently so I am still getting a feel for it, so you saved me some money on BotR On the other hand BoEM sounds like it would be a good investmet.
So once again thank you

 

[jgbrowning]

BotR is a very good book. If you don't need the subject matter, however, it just doesn't have much utility. But that's the same for every book.

joe b.