Quintessential Splatbooks vs the Wizards Class Books
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Eternalknight
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I find the Quint books to be much like the old 'Complete' books from 2nd edition. Some people would think this a bad thing, but not me. I much prefer Mongoose's books.
TheAuldGrump
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I use both the Quint books and the splatbooks by WOTC. In general I much prefer yhe quintessential books, they are a 'better bang for your buck' despite being for a single class. A lot of the stuff in the class books by WoTC will not be appearing in my campaign, largely because of outright silliness. (An arrow that follows an unpredictable flight path doesn't get rid of Dex bonus, it just misses...)
When I first purchased the Quintessential Fighter my only reason to do so was the Open Mass Combat system. I had very low expectations and was in fact delighted to find very nearly the whole thing useful. Indeed I had to eat crow on that one and even tell people, 'this is a good book'.I pull it out now and again to point out that, yes, I can be wrong. I do impose both a cost in gold and an experience cost as well for the fighting schools, but I do use them in my D&D campaign.
The only book that seriously disappointed me was the Quintessential Rogue, I dislike the concept of 'rogue feats'. Even that was easily fixed, just opening them to all classes and adding a few prerequisites where I felt them needed.
The classbooks on the other hand waste too much space on Greyhawk prestige classes and random silliness. However they do have a decent amount of useable stuff. Tome and Blood in particular was very useful, and gets used fairly reularly.
As for the Oozemaster, not in my campaign.
The Auld Grump, who could fill several pages with comparisons...
When I first purchased the Quintessential Fighter my only reason to do so was the Open Mass Combat system. I had very low expectations and was in fact delighted to find very nearly the whole thing useful. Indeed I had to eat crow on that one and even tell people, 'this is a good book'.I pull it out now and again to point out that, yes, I can be wrong. I do impose both a cost in gold and an experience cost as well for the fighting schools, but I do use them in my D&D campaign.
The only book that seriously disappointed me was the Quintessential Rogue, I dislike the concept of 'rogue feats'. Even that was easily fixed, just opening them to all classes and adding a few prerequisites where I felt them needed.
The classbooks on the other hand waste too much space on Greyhawk prestige classes and random silliness. However they do have a decent amount of useable stuff. Tome and Blood in particular was very useful, and gets used fairly reularly.
As for the Oozemaster, not in my campaign.
The Auld Grump, who could fill several pages with comparisons...
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The Cardinal
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the absolutely best non-WotC "class-enhancer" books I've seen so far are FFG's Path of Magic and Path of the Sword: brilliant stuff!
The Cardinal
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Crothian said:
...at least their PrCs all have ten levels.
The Cardinal
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well, according to the ELH, 5-level PrCs are not really fit for epic progressions...
Oberton
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I as a DM have purchased the WOTC books, but I told my players if they wish to use another d20 product they are welcome to, but they will need to own the reference book. Plus, I warned them that I might not allow everything from a book. They are now purchasing players aids all the time. I approve almost 65% of the material they want to bring into the game. I really don't see a problem with them. The WOTC books are the same way, I approve about 65% of the content for my game which is based in Kalamar.
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