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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 1384786" data-attributes="member: 1297">I'm more or less a purist. Not be cause I care about officialness, although given that I buy WotC books most, it's nice when they work together.I buy them because WotC and I share a design aesthetic. I like core DnD, and things that work with in it's basic assumptions. I have a fair amount of 3rd party stuff, but little of it have I enjoyed as much as most of the WotC stuff I've bought.People keep sayng that Ua is going to have stuff that other people have done better. In some cases that's true, but I haven't seen much in the way of cloistered clerics or varient wizard speicialists. Alot of the other stuff was done ofr games I don't play which would require a lot more work to make suitable for DnD (eg. sanity), and I don't have time! So if WotC do it so that it does work with DnD, then I'm in to it.That said I really like some rules from 3rd party peeps: the whole MSS: WE book I loved, the ritual magic rules in R&R, Hammer and Helm etc.However I don't agree that WotC do it worse than 3rd party. I genunely think that BoVD does what it sets out to do better than the others who have tried to similar things. I genuinely thought FF kicked ToH's butt. I genuinely think that most of the BoEM is way more 'high magic' in tone that Magic of Faerun.Basically I don't have a whole heap of time. WotC stuff fits together better than trying to work all the 3rd party stuff in, and so it aves me time.</blockquote>

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