Races of Destiny: Buying/Bought?

[Alhazred]

I bought it and am disappointed that I did so. I can't wait for Complete Adventurer.

 

[Elephant]

Errhm...how can one not be sure whether or not they have purchased something?

 

[Lord Rasputin]

Errhm...how can one not be sure whether or not they have purchased something?

Well, I stole all their wallets, and used all their credit cards at the gaming store. Thus, they figure they might have bought a copy -- depending on whether or not I felt they should be purchasing one and which stolen credit card I used.

But seriously, Wizards, regrettably, needs to publish these books. It's either an increasing number of splat books, or 4e. D&D is one genre, so a GURPS-like strategy won't help it.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I bought it, thinking that the griping over the overdose of Illumians was overstated. But I was let down. It reall seems to be like Dark Psion says:

But instead it is the Complete book of Illumians.

There is so much potential to mine in previous material (OD&D/Basic/AD&Ds/3e) about degenerate humans, near-humans, and half-humans that they didn't need to invent a whole new one and give the majority (yes, it really is the majority of the book) to the new race.

The Illumian material is good enough. I just was let down there wasn't more on the variety of humans, near-humans, half-humans and degenerate humans in the multiverse of D&D editions. Even a complete collection of these races from all editions would have been cool. *shrug*

I'll get use out of the book yet.


Regards,
Eric Anondson

 

[Akrasia]

I just don't understand how ANY of these 'race' books can add enough to most campaigns to justify the price.

Besides, as DM I prefer to fashion the particular cultures of my races to suit my campaign setting.

 

[ivocaliban]

Races of Stone was a good book and brought hope to this series. I personally thought the new race (Goliaths) was good, but that it took up a little too much space. From all that I've heard Races of Destiny has the same problem, only to a much greater extent. Illumians become the focus and everything else is piecemeal. That leads to the real problem with Races of Destiny: it simply attempts to cover more races and offshoots than a book its size can actually hold. As a result the new race becomes the center of attention while the familiar races simply serve as filler.

Having enjoyed Races of Stone so much I had high hopes for Races of Destiny, but I also saw it as the most dispensable of the three scheduled volumes in the series. If Races of the Wild gives too much space to the bird-people, I suspect it will fall as well. There is still some hope in me that it will turn out at least as well as Races of Stone and if it manages that I'll be more than pleased.

 

[ivocaliban]

I just don't understand how ANY of these 'race' books can add enough to most campaigns to justify the price.

A valid opinion but one that can be applied to almost every d20 book ever published beyond the core books. And I'm sure there are those that would even argue against those three (er...six).

 

[Crothian]

A valid opinion but one that can be applied to almost every d20 book ever published beyond the core books. And I'm sure there are those that would even argue against those three (er...six).

ya, but at the same time anyone can argue that there are books out there that are so useful to people they are worth it; including these race books.

 

[Nightfall]

Yeah well so far if its good to use in the Scarred Lands, price is not my problem.

(I enjoy being poor. God looks after you they say. So god, send me more poverty with D&D/d20 books! )

 

[Tetsubo]

I answered yes, even though Amazon has not delivered it yet...