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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 188299" data-attributes="member: 94">Thanks for the reply, Joe. I'll take that grain of salt and leave you to your opinions. However I will try to answer some of your questions below!First, allow me to explain the focus of the book in a little more detail. The Heroes of High Favor series is designed to encourage multiclassing and roleplaying for each race's favored class. Dwarves presents skills, feats, and multiclass/prestige class options for dwarven fighters of all kinds. This is a very targeted focus, one that we think sets us apart from similar offerings.Improved Charge is mentioned on page 2, but that is not a standard feat.  Will it reference the feat or reprint it?Improved Charge can be found in an earlier chapter of the book.Mention of Slayer is also made.  Is this meant to imply something similiar to the Troll Slayers from Warhammer?The slayer is the fighter-ranger offering, combining the best of both the favored enemy abilities of the ranger and the bonus feats of the fighter. Sorry if these questions seem to get off to a bad start of imply that I"m not interested in the products but I agree that we need top quality materials and redoing an old kit from 2nd edition doesn't seem to prove the point.Let me reassure you that the battlerager preview was chosen specifically because of its widespread appeal and accessibility.As a player, I would not be happy with book about dwarves that did not present some kind of "beserker" prestige class. The beserk dwarf is an iconic character-- the archetype appears in countless incarnations in fiction and, as one might suspect, has been given its due in many 3e permutations as well. Any dwarf book without such an offering would be an omission.You will find much of the iconic in the Heroes of High Favor series. Frankly, we don't feel that a book full of prestige classes that no player would be interested in-- no matter how unique or bizarre-- serves the interests of gamers. For every gamer you find who wants to play a living pile of ooze, I will find you a hundred who want to play a bloodthirsty dwarf.This is more true when one considers the Frenzy based barbarian class already in Masters of the Wild.  As you have access to both the Frenzied Beserker from MotW and our dwarven Battlerager, I encourage you to compare them side by side and choose the one that suits you. They share the same 'iconic' focus and roleplaying concept, but in execution-- aside from their roots in the rage ability-- they are quite different. The price for the page count is great, $9.95 for 64 pages and I for one am interested to hear more about the plans and original material for the line up. Joe, although I think the price is great as well, I want to make sure to point out that the trim size of this book is 6x9. If you are keeping track of price-per-page, it is worth considering this on the same playing field as a 32-page standard sized book. However, our focus was on the text density (9-pt type with reasonable half-inch margins), the price-per-word, and most especially on the content. We're not padding the margins with artwork, and we're certainly not padding the content with useless fluff. (We feel the equipment chart in the Player's Handbook is quite enough, thank you.)It will not be long before widespread reviews are available, but I will be happy to answer any further questions you have.</blockquote>

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