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<blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 1913411" data-attributes="member: 5278">(Inspired by the &quot;Favorite Hardbacks&quot; thread)I noticed a lot of non-WotC books got mentioned in that thread, and frankly I was a bit surprised.&nbsp; I bought a few 3rd party books in the early days of 3.0 and was so thoroughly discusted by the amount of hopeless errors I soon dubbed every one of them &quot;useless&quot; and gave up on 3rd party publishers entirely.Have things got as much better as the &quot;Favorite Hardbacks&quot; thread seems to suggest? I know WotC's proof reading has deteriorated quite badly, though they've never yet published anything as terrible as my old non-WotC books! To my eyes those books appeared to have been written by someone who had only had D&amp;D explained to them at a party! (Ok, maybe they had tried a quick session once...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) Oops, nearly forgot: I've got the various &quot;Might&quot; books from Malhavoc! I figured that after having written the DMG, Monte was a safe bet (and he was).So have 3rd party publishers really gotten that much better? Or are all those guys on the &quot;Favorite Hardbacks&quot; thread just plugging books written by themselves or their friends?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jolly Giant, post: 1913411, member: 5278"] (Inspired by the "Favorite Hardbacks" thread) I noticed a lot of non-WotC books got mentioned in that thread, and frankly I was a bit surprised. I bought a few 3rd party books in the early days of 3.0 and was so thoroughly discusted by the amount of hopeless errors I soon dubbed every one of them "useless" and gave up on 3rd party publishers entirely. Have things got as much better as the "Favorite Hardbacks" thread seems to suggest? I know WotC's proof reading has deteriorated quite badly, though they've never yet published anything as terrible as my old non-WotC books! To my eyes those books appeared to have been written by someone who had only had D&D explained to them at a party! (Ok, maybe they had tried a quick session once... :p ) Oops, nearly forgot: I've got the various "Might" books from Malhavoc! I figured that after having written the DMG, Monte was a safe bet (and he was). So have 3rd party publishers really gotten that much better? Or are all those guys on the "Favorite Hardbacks" thread just plugging books written by themselves or their friends? ;) [/QUOTE]

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