Newer Products in Use?

[JoeGKushner]

So what have people been using from the latest products?

I've messed with some of the Tome of Battle, Book of Nine Swords, but thanks to non-gaming issues, haven't had a chance to play in a few months so I'm just wondering what people have been using.

Dragon Magic: Anyone using any of the new spells, Incarnum, etc...?

Complete Arcane: One of my friends is playing in a game using the reserve feats.

Complete Psionic: This one's sat on the shelf for many a moon.

?

I'm outta the loop.

 

[glass]

My current AoW group has a Swordsage, and a few spells from the Spell Compendium are in use. We did have a Duskblade, but he got retired in favour of a Cleric.

EDIT: I don't have any of the books you list yet, assuming you mean Complete Mage rather than Complete Arcane.


glass.

 

[Psion]

Using PHBII, Complete Mage, Complete Arcane and Complete Psionic for some PCs and NPCs.

I am planning some stuff using Hordes of the Abyss.

For the game I am running for the family, I am taking Necromancer Games' Shades of Gray and giving it a Dragon Flavor[TM] using Dragon Magic (and less recent books like Draconomicon and Classic Play: Book of Dragons).

I shelved Book of Nine Swords due to balance issues.

 

[DM_Jeff]

My Red Hand of Doom campaign just ended, and in that we had a tiefling duskblade/swordsage, and my DM-NPC was a dragon shaman of sorts from Dragon Magic using a few abilities therein.

Everyone really liked (and was a little jealous) of the cool swordsage abilities and as a DM I found his powers fun and great to describe. When he took levels in the Jade Pheonix Mage prestige class, I was quite pleased with the flavor they instilled in it, it lead to some really great roleplaying moments.

In a game we play a few times a year, I'm actually a player, and have a warmage who has two of the reserve feats, and they are darned fun (and super when you are disarmed, let me tell you).

In my Shackled City campaign that ended back in spring, we had a career psionicist who went all the way up to 19th level and saw extensive use fo EPH and Complete Psionic with a dash of Hyperconscious, and those too proved to be valuable resources.

We run out games pretty tight and have a good crew, I have no reports of broken or useless powers or choices, everyone is enjoying the new books and they are seeing steady use at the table.

-DM Jeff

 

[delericho]

In my most recent short-lived campaign, I opened up a whole raft of options from the expansion books for use. The characters I got as a result?

Human Fighter
Human Cleric
Dwarf Wizard
Half-elf Bard
Halfling Rogue

(I wasn't allowing non-core races. Non-core classes were fair game, though.)

They used a feat here and there, a spell or two, and aimed their characters at non-core prestige classes.

It turns out that while a couple of my players are very keen on the non-core in principle, for power-gaming reasons, they aren't willing to put in the effort needed to work out a detailed advancement plan. And without that, you're better off sticking with the core.

Anyway, that campaign ended last night, due to unrelated TPK issues.

 

[Voadam]

Lot of PHII stuff on the player end. I played a beguiler in a savage tide game, used the alt class features of hexblades and rangers in two more games I play(ed) in, and had a knight as a PC in my pbp game.

Used some Tome of Magic binder stuff for an NPC.

Used folklore sayings lifted from Dog Soul Publishing's Nifflheim in a game with a Viking culture PC.

Had one PC in my game consider Elan racial feats from Complete Psionic.

Oh yes, and the PCs in my high level game are currently dealing with a mind eater from Alea Publishing's Mindcraft.

I buy and use mostly older books on sale, though the occasional deal on new pdfs catches my buying dollar such as the recent Dream Scarred Press Psionics splatbook Untapped Potential.

 

[Crothian]

I've used Dragon Magic and we are starting to use Book of 9 swords and Complete Arcane.

 

[smootrk]

Been using Heroes of Horror for the Archivist and revised Corruption (taint, but I hate the word in use). Lots of Feats from PHB2 being used.

 

[Mystery Man]

I shelved Book of Nine Swords due to balance issues.

What's unbalanced about it? I dont' have but was thinking about getting it.

 

[Psion]

What's unbalanced about it? I dont' have but was thinking about getting it.

Well, basically, if you include warblades in your game as is, the fighter is instantly a non-option except for maybe multi-class dwarves. It can do pretty much everything the fighter can do and more, and gets better HP to boot.