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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TBoarder" data-source="post: 85418" data-attributes="member: 272">I didn't notice that it was you that blasted the reviewer.  Thanks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I understand what you're saying about why you believe S&F doesn't suck.  Heck, I almost agree with you.  The prestige classes are generally interesting, conceptually at least.  I believe the feats and items are garbage.  The items are a waste of space.  Everybody complains about the mercurial weapons (with good reason), but what sends me into apoplectic fits is the fullsword, a weapon created in direct contradiction to the rules set out for large sized weapons in the Monster Manual.  The errata fixes this, but in turn makes it an utterly useless weapon for PCs.  The feats show a terrible understanding of the way the new D&D/D20 system works and are either extremely poorly described (monkey grip for example) or pointless (dirty fighting).  The rest of the book is completely worthless for my needs.  Of course, when we're dealing with these non-mechanical portions of the book, our reviews of it are entirely subjective, more a matter of taste than anything else.  A few decent ideas with terrible implementation results in an "It sucks" rating from me.  I can't compare this the TQF because I have no interest in reading it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I probably am in the minority here.  I doubt that Magic of Faerun (Yes, that is what I meant.  Sorry for the confusion) sold nearly as well as the class books simply due to the fact that it's a Forgotten Realms book and not a core book.I probably mis-spoke what I meant when I said that MoF was more useful to me than all 5 class books.  It's obviously got a much smaller focus than all 5 books, and its Forgotten Realms focus limits it even more.  What came off as unintentionally extremist was just my way of saying That I'd have preferred the class books to have the same polish and rules density as Magic of Faerun did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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