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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 38363" data-attributes="member: 151">Heh.  BoEM is good....it's also got some stuff in it that's horribly broken, too, IMHO.  I also think it has some lackluster classes in it.  You sound more dissatisfied with the ratio of price to content than the actual content....which is a perfectly valid viewpoint.  I don't necessarily disagree.But as often as not, the issue is whether the content is good...it's whether it's sexy or not.  Balanced is often bandied about as a euphamism for lackluster.  Sword and Fist has some great prestige classes, IMHO.  DotF, T&B and S&S have more prestige classes better suited for NPCs than PCs, which is something of a poor choice, but not an invalid one.The problem is, I haven't really found any of the free content to be substantially any better than WOTCs.  None of it applies to my campaign, and often most third party material is just as unbalanced as anything WOTC produces.  I like Relics & Rituals, for example, but the prestige classes don't work for me, either on a conceptual level or a balance level.  They may be cool, but being a cool idea isn't good enough.  The real problem are classes that could be cool, but fail...such as the Dread Pirate, which is just plain DUMB.  But the LGJ's DharkaGuard makes up for it, IMHO.There's nothing wrong with not liking WOTC's stuff...I'm the first to agree that there is better stuff being done by others.  My problem is that for every good third party supplement, there are ten bad ones...and I don't have the time or wherewithall to sort them.  WOTC's releasals are fairly consistent in quality, with minor problems, which are often resolved in errata.  Rangerwickett, in specific, is often touted as having fantastic ideas that beat WOTC's consistently, and IMHO, they really don't.  YMMV.</blockquote>

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