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Message: <blockquote data-quote="twofalls" data-source="post: 3179687" data-attributes="member: 23718">Thanks!Thank you for taking the time to offer up your opinions on the books, it sounds like I was able to get a selection of good ones. Over the years my ability to purchase books has outstripped my availible time to read and use them, until just recently where that has reversed itself, so it was a great thing for me to be able to pick up so many titles so affordably.I agree with edemaitre that Kalamar is one of the best published game worlds out there and it was very well supported before the company went under. The only book that I am missing from my kalamar collection now that I concider a must have is the Orc book. I figured there was no way I could go wrong purchasing those books.I have a very large 150+ book collection of 3rd edition GURPS books as well as 6 of the 4th edition hardbacks, GURPS is my favorite game system for small groups. It's too rules heavy to be manageable in large groups such as the 9 player game I am running now. The four extra books were Supers, Ogre, Robots, and Mecha all of which I already owned. I'm giving them to players of mine who have been generous with me in the past by adding books to my library.The Babylon 5 and Starship Troopers books are both beautifully published full color D20 games. Starship troopers is completely focused on the military, with several alien menaces to fight and lots of tech toys and vehicles (power armor) to play with. Its based on the players handbook but I'd probably port it over to D20 modern. The Babylon book is the 2004 printing which I believe is the second for that game.I do like the White Wolf games though I've not ever run one. I have a fairly largish collection of early edition vampire material as well as Hunter, Werewolf, and Wraith items. I love reading thier game data but its another one of those game that I've collected but not had time to play. The D20 Trinity I just picked up will likely collect dust along with the rest of them. It's funny, I don't ever rid myself of a game book or suppliment. I have 6 bookcases in my game room stuffed with probably over 800 rpg books I have been purchasing since 1978, and the majority of that material has been purchased since 2000. Meaning that I have a LOT of unread material. When is it enough?The last thing I really needed was the two monster books, I have so many of them that I wont ever use 10% of the critters I have now. However I love Tome of Horrors I, so I will look through II and III and see what they offer.Drow might be overused, but dang I love them! I purchased a book a while ago called Sheoloth City of Drow and was really dissapointed by it, so I hope The Tome of Drow Lore is a step up. I've not overused the Drow in my games, but I plan on using them in the future.I'm not a huge fan of Oriental Adventures, but there are times in my past when I have been drawn to it. I have all the first and second edition materials including the Kara-Tur boxed game setting. I purchased 3.0 Oriental Adventures a few months ago and discovered that Rokugan was its default setting which is why I picked it up... $5 bucks was just far to good a deal to ignore for a brand new copy.I'm not a Montephile, but I do admire his work and I use his Arcana Unearthed book as the default ruleset for my current D&D game in Ptolus (I am using the WLD as the dungeon setting below the city). Hyperconcious looked interesting and the Mindscape combat system looks very cool, I dislike the clunky system as presented in the core books.The NPC book looks useful, I had at one point the ambitious idea of going through all my 370+ dragon magazines and cataloging all the npc 3.0+ stat blocks for ready to use NPC's as I just hate writing them up myself. This is far easier than that.Thanks again for the feedback.</blockquote>

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