mongoose books balanced?

[Astragoth]

I saw in another thhread a reccomendation to use a feat from the quintessal fighter from mongoose publishers.

I'm interested in this material but before I purchase it I would like to know wether the (more expirienced) players and dm's on this board find those books balanced in a normal low-magic campaign and if so, wether the content is innovative enough to make the puchase worthwhile for a extremely cheap dutch guy..

so lock and load foulks... feedback please

 

[Maldur]

If you wanna spend some time reading through a serious pile of d20 books, drop me a mail (bazz@xs4all.nl).

Your welcome to browse my bookshelves.

 

[Astragoth]

woohoo

 

[Psion]

Hmmm... do I sense warez in the air?

Anyway... it depends on the book. Some of the feats in the Collector series are okay, though some I do find problematic. The thing most people (myself included) have problems with is some of the "character concepts" and the fighting styles, which are essentially freebies.

 

[Ysgarran]

What Psion said.

The Rokugan samurai book had something similar.
At least for the styles in the samurai book you had to pay experience points to access. You also had to go through a Kata before you could take advantage of a particular style. I'm not sure if it is balanced but at least it is not a freebie like the QF styles are.

I think something that might balance the styles in QF a bit is to decide the value of a particular style and make the player burn experience points every time he wants to use it.

Ysgarran.

 

[Darklone]

Yeah, the main problem with the free fighting styles is: Essentially only a fighter can take them due to the tremendous amount of required feats... as if fighters don't have enough feats anyways.

But if you take the book as source of ideas for houserules, they rock.

 

[Storminator]

Hmmm... do I sense warez in the air?

Well Psion, they're both in the Netherlands. Perhaps he meant his actual bookshelf!

PS

 

[Maldur]

Actually I do mean my actual bookshelves!

Your welcome as well , but it might be a bit of a trip

 

[Astragoth]

mail has been sent Maldur

 

[Piratecat]

Actually I do mean my actual bookshelves!

Your welcome as well , but it might be a bit of a trip

Good.
this isn't the site for promoting or sharing warez - but you already knew that!