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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1913560" data-attributes="member: 5100">I've been pretty hesitant to buy 3rd party books, too.  I've got Magical Medieval Society in .pdf form (which is a doubly odd purchase for me) and FFG's Wildscape.   Although I'm only about half-way through MMS (.pdf format absolutely blows), I can't recommend it enough.  It is absolutely great for building anything resembling a "realistic" world.  I've already gotten more value per dollar than any book besides the core three. Wildscape is a different matter.  It is an okay-enough book, and I was impressed enough to buy it after flipping through.  It just hasn't paid off in practice -- nothing in it has actually seen play in my game.  Dunno what the deal is. *shrug* Anyway, the point was that those are the only two non-WotC products I own.  I'm sure there is some great material out there.  Possibly stuff that puts WotC to shame.  I just don't have the time/inclination to sort the wheat from the chaffe.  And, I don't trust one-off recommendations, because there are some books, that I've browsed through, that get consistant thumbs up from people 'round here that I find to be not worth much to me.</blockquote>