Miniatures Handbook-Who Needs It?

[Sado]

Is this a book I should get if I don't play the miniatures game? I know some people use the classes from this book like the Marshal and Healer in regular D&D. Does the stuff in here translate directly to the regular game?

 

[Scion]

I have it and I think it is a very nice book actually.

The marshal is just plain an incredible class. It can fit into just about any party and help them in some significant way. It has a great set of skills and decent combat modes. (I have seen 2 marshal pc's so far, one I made them a custom marshal prc that cut down on their combat ability and upped their aura powers and the other one is going warmage with 2 levels of marshal)

Warmage is very interesting, although in my opinion a bit over focused (duh, that is his point ).

The majority of the book is written for d&d, no porting of anything necissary. There are some skirmish rules that can be used in a normal d&d game but they are fairly lackluster.

All in all, I think it has a lot of useful ideas that can be pulled directly or modified to fit in most any game. Good resource.

However, there are other books with 'more' information in them relevant to the d&d game directly. Whereas you can use a little over half of the mini's handbook others you can use more than that. The info is good, but it may not have enough to make someone happy (I play the minis game but I still ignore the later part of the book, the first part is more than good enough for my money).

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I don't play the minis game but I use this book a lot - even more than Complete Divine or Complete Warrior. There's a lot of cool ideas in it. I highly recommend it.

 

[Warmage-in-Onley]

I really like the Miniatures Handbook for the D&D content. The classes are well thought out, there are some really useful spells and feats, and I think it has the best monsters section of any D&D supplement yet... including the new Monster Manuals! It has something for everyone in it and is well illustrated.

 

[tensen]

I originally wasn't going to get it... since I while I use miniatures in play, I don't play the minis games and such that is half of the book. However we've made use of a War Mage, Healer, Favored Soul, and Marshal from the book. So it was a worthwhile investment.

 

[Darklone]

Agreeing with the others, just wanted to add that I really like many of the feats in there additionally to the stuff the others mentioned.

Just be a little bit careful with some spells.

 

[Dthamilaye]

And be careful with some feats too.

Mageslayer, anyone? (Compare to the epic feat...)

 

[Darklone]

I like Mageslayer

A wizard in melee should be dead meat.