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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3619428" data-attributes="member: 8158">Mist, it's after midnight where I am, so if it was Bizarro Day, it's now over. "Often" and "usually" actually aren't specific descriptors anymore. They're broad.You're right, I wasn't trying to win anyone over. I didn't start a thread about the matter. I didn't step up to the podium and make some grand rant. If I had, I'd feel compelled to support it. In this thread, I just shared my personal line-item list of broken stuff. If you want to declare the Book of Exalted Deeds to be unduly maligned, you post the essay, and I'll deconstruct. I'm just not that motivated to attack a book that's on the no-fly list of every DM in my gaming circle, and has been for years. Tome of Battle I have a little more steam for, so pick a fight about that and maybe I can indulge you.I'll be specific when I think it's appropriate. In this case, I feel so much of the content is power-creep personified (not just the prestige classes that you have made the focal point, but also exalted feats and equipment) that I regard the whole thing as a bad product. If folks desire more specificity, then they are free to not make much of my disdain. Here's the quote: "The overwhelming majority of prestige classes from the Book of Exalted Deeds are taken by almost nobody."Not a question, and contains sifnificant exaggeration, unless you do in fact have authoritative knowledge of what nobody plays. Well, used to be (again, it's not fresh material anymore). The Emissary of Barachiel's ability to make the villains into friends so very easily was kind of a joke, since it could adversely affect a campaign like RHoD where there are lots of evil humanoids to win over.</blockquote>

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