Libris Mortis is no Draconomicon?

[Crothian]

I don't want this to turn into a flame thread, but after purchasing Libris Mortis I'm a little disappointed. When I saw Draconomicon, I was floored; the quality was THAT good. But Libris... eh. For whatever reason, it just doesn't appear that as much time was put into it. And that worries me when it comes to the next book (aberrations?) that is scheduled to come out.

Maybe it's just a matter of the sequel not living up to the original. Or maybe I'm just imagining things...

Draconomicon is probably the best book Wizards has put out, ever. Nothing else before or since has been as good and I think it will be hard for them to ever top it. Sure, it would be nice if all their books were of this quality, but that is a very high expectation.

 

[BryonD]

Draconomicon is probably the best book Wizards has put out, ever. Nothing else before or since has been as good and I think it will be hard for them to ever top it. Sure, it would be nice if all their books were of this quality, but that is a very high expectation.

That is pretty much my opinion as well.
Heck, I've probably gotten more use out of LM because, like others, I use undead so much more than dragons.
But Draconomicon is simply a beautiful book and fun to just read.

 

[Evilhalfling]

So I havent really looked at LM yet and nothing said here has made me want to. I dissed the Dracanomicon because I had the 2nd ed version, years of Dragon Magazine articals, and I use dragons sparingly. The players agree as the most recent time I set a mystic dingus in a dragons lair (white) the PC's decided they could live without it, heading for the ToEE instead.

After having borrowed and read the lovely book I am setting up a land overrun by dragons. Feats, spells, prestige classes, dragoncrafted items were all key, even though I tuned down the dragons, to fit a lower level game.

Im not sure that anything in LM could inspire this much devotion.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I actually like LM much better than Draconomicon, but aside from errors I did have some problems with it - I would have liked to see more on non-evil undead and religions dealing with the undead (they even glossed over Wee Jas - the only non-evil death godess in the core Greyhawk deities.)

And I would have enjoyed seeing more abilities, powers, and limitations for noncorporeal undead.

The Auld Grump

 

[Li Shenron]

Another question about Libris Mortis: does it have any flavor material about the origin and nature of different undead creatures?

Someone mentioned Codex Anathema, which there's about zero chance I'm going to buy it. IMO Aberrations are such a disomogeneous category that it makes little sense to have a book about them (in a way, aberration & magical beast seem more catch-all categories for whatever doesn't fit in the better defined ones), and it probably ends up to have a chapter for each most famous creature - such as Illithid - and a series of new weirdos.