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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2569010" data-attributes="member: 7624">I hope my material has this much personalityHonestly, the strength of this product is not in it's solid implementaion of 3.5 rules, or the fact that the monsters are balanced for their CR...blah, blah, blah. The strength of this product is that these creatures have personality. These are monsters who look and feel different. They don't feel so different that they are utterly alien, but they are different in the way creatures unique to a given setting should be. I remember the first time I say the Dark Sun Campaign boxed set, I thought "Wow, what a great place." I got that tingle of my DM's-sense that told me that there is something special here. Well I feel that way about this book and what I have read about this setting. There is something special here, something that IMO can become at the minimum a cult-hit with a dedicated fan base similar to the way the Midnight setting has created, deservedly, a rabidly loyal following amongst fans. I think that Avadnu can be in that catagory if marketed properly and enough buzz is created.Also, these creatures are OGC which is great because it adds to the pool of quality creatures and mechanics designers can use whole cloth or tweak for their own settings without reinventing the wheel. Too often nowadays the OGC content alert as to what falls under that catagory and what does not is being hidden or obscured under legalistic mumbo-jumbo. This book is in the spirit of the OGL in that it makes itself available to all who would fairly use its contents to flesh out their own games or settings as necessary.The art and layout is gorgeous. WoTC take a hint from these folks and start using imagery like this as opposed to the superhero art of Reynolds who may be talented by IMO is more suited to comic art than fantasy.As I read this book and look over the company website I think to myself that I hope my setting, when its finally ready with be, for different reasons, as impressive as this. Seeing good material from 3rd party publishers should IMO push setting designers to raise their own bar in regards to quality and creativity.I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the Denizens of Avadnu hardcover..heck I might order it today.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Chris</blockquote>

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