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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 884675" data-attributes="member: 813"><p><strong>Re: Re: Re: Niche products</strong></p><p></p><p>{Enter salesman mode}That's why my book is a niche book with great breadth. It's title (<a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=246&" target="_blank">Joe's Book of Enchantment</a>) makes it seem like only specialty wizards would care about it. And yet half of its prestige classes are NPC only. Only two of them assume you are a wizard, among the other 8 there are some optimized for Druid, Ranger, Bard and even Monk! There are general purpose feats for all spellcasters. There are 70 spells including 2-3 exclusive to the paladin. There are magic items which all share an Enchantment feel, even the weapons. There are some monsters, they use Enchantment. Half of them are Fey. There's a half-fey template. There's a fey disciple prestige class so you can grow into your feyness. There are sample NPCs for every PrC each with its own set of plot hooks for the party. What other book has an awakened, adolescent purple worm in it named Woobly? Not all niche books suffer from lack of breadth. I haven't gotten into the Alchemical auromatics in Chapter 9. Or the new uses for skills. And its 100% OGC. It has a 4.333 average here at ENWorld. It has 4, 5 out of 5 ratings on RPGNow (not one of which is written by a friend of mine).{exit salesman mode} I would also consider the Eldritch Might books as niche books. So perhaps there's a difference of opinion about what a niche book is. Don't judge a book by its title. Some of them are more broad than you think.</p><p>One book setting? Oriental Adventures? Have you not seen all of these support books: <a href="http://l5r.alderac.com/rpg/" target="_blank">http://l5r.alderac.com/rpg/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 884675, member: 813"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Niche products[/b] {Enter salesman mode}That's why my book is a niche book with great breadth. It's title ([URL=http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=246&]Joe's Book of Enchantment[/URL]) makes it seem like only specialty wizards would care about it. And yet half of its prestige classes are NPC only. Only two of them assume you are a wizard, among the other 8 there are some optimized for Druid, Ranger, Bard and even Monk! There are general purpose feats for all spellcasters. There are 70 spells including 2-3 exclusive to the paladin. There are magic items which all share an Enchantment feel, even the weapons. There are some monsters, they use Enchantment. Half of them are Fey. There's a half-fey template. There's a fey disciple prestige class so you can grow into your feyness. There are sample NPCs for every PrC each with its own set of plot hooks for the party. What other book has an awakened, adolescent purple worm in it named Woobly? Not all niche books suffer from lack of breadth. I haven't gotten into the Alchemical auromatics in Chapter 9. Or the new uses for skills. And its 100% OGC. It has a 4.333 average here at ENWorld. It has 4, 5 out of 5 ratings on RPGNow (not one of which is written by a friend of mine).{exit salesman mode} I would also consider the Eldritch Might books as niche books. So perhaps there's a difference of opinion about what a niche book is. Don't judge a book by its title. Some of them are more broad than you think. One book setting? Oriental Adventures? Have you not seen all of these support books: [url]http://l5r.alderac.com/rpg/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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