Alzrius
The EN World kitten
Hrm, I've of two minds about this list.
Complete Divine and Races of Stone made me cringe, to be honest. It's not that this has been done with other d20 companies (though that's part of it), but rather that we've seen this from WotC already. Remember the five splatbooks from before? Apparently they don't. I was hoping Complete Warrior would be a singular thing, and not the beginning of a new line that covers the same thing as the splatbooks, just in 3.5 material. But, it looks like I was wrong.
As for the race book, I know WotC hasn't done that before, but truth to tell, I don't think it needs to. Races, unlike classes, are as much defined by where they are as anything inherent. A race book therefore becomes less useful if the gnomes in your world are a whispy race that lives underground and comes up at night to steal children, etc.
On the other hand, I'm quite excited about the Player's Guide to the Planes! I'd been a bit down about the planes ever since the announcement that the Player's Guide to Faerun would not only be keeping the "planar tree" cosmology, but expanding on it even. That was their big chance to rectify that mistake...but hopefully this will roll the Great Wheel back into the limelight!
I'm quite looking forward to the book celebrating 30 years of D&D. I've got a place for it right next to my Silver Anniversary boxed set.
Complete Divine and Races of Stone made me cringe, to be honest. It's not that this has been done with other d20 companies (though that's part of it), but rather that we've seen this from WotC already. Remember the five splatbooks from before? Apparently they don't. I was hoping Complete Warrior would be a singular thing, and not the beginning of a new line that covers the same thing as the splatbooks, just in 3.5 material. But, it looks like I was wrong.
As for the race book, I know WotC hasn't done that before, but truth to tell, I don't think it needs to. Races, unlike classes, are as much defined by where they are as anything inherent. A race book therefore becomes less useful if the gnomes in your world are a whispy race that lives underground and comes up at night to steal children, etc.
On the other hand, I'm quite excited about the Player's Guide to the Planes! I'd been a bit down about the planes ever since the announcement that the Player's Guide to Faerun would not only be keeping the "planar tree" cosmology, but expanding on it even. That was their big chance to rectify that mistake...but hopefully this will roll the Great Wheel back into the limelight!
I'm quite looking forward to the book celebrating 30 years of D&D. I've got a place for it right next to my Silver Anniversary boxed set.
