Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="shady" data-source="post: 1940024" data-attributes="member: 13536">Mostly it tells you nothing about humans, half orcs and half elves you didn't already know, from the core books or from INT&gt;1 inference. Ditto those races in the &quot;additional races&quot; section that have been detailed elsewhere. The new stuff is basically the Illumians, a couple of new deities (presumably for Greyhawk), new domain stuff, the new feats and PrCs (some of which are Illumian specific), and some urban encounter/design stuff, which is pretty inadequate and would have been far better dealt with in a terrain book, a la Frostburn.&nbsp;&nbsp;For an RPG book, it has less useful new RPG stuff than the miniatures handbook, which was ostensibly not an RPG book.&nbsp;&nbsp;My other objection on the humans coverage is that it doesn't think outside the box. The assumption of &quot;races of destiny&quot; is that humans will become the dominant race, and that the half-breeds are probably outcasts. More stuff about using humans in different ways would have been more useful, I think, even it had meant changing the book's title.&nbsp;&nbsp;I actually think the Illumians stuff is kind of OK, but not worth the price of entry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shady, post: 1940024, member: 13536"] Mostly it tells you nothing about humans, half orcs and half elves you didn't already know, from the core books or from INT>1 inference. Ditto those races in the "additional races" section that have been detailed elsewhere. The new stuff is basically the Illumians, a couple of new deities (presumably for Greyhawk), new domain stuff, the new feats and PrCs (some of which are Illumian specific), and some urban encounter/design stuff, which is pretty inadequate and would have been far better dealt with in a terrain book, a la Frostburn. For an RPG book, it has less useful new RPG stuff than the miniatures handbook, which was ostensibly not an RPG book. My other objection on the humans coverage is that it doesn't think outside the box. The assumption of "races of destiny" is that humans will become the dominant race, and that the half-breeds are probably outcasts. More stuff about using humans in different ways would have been more useful, I think, even it had meant changing the book's title. I actually think the Illumians stuff is kind of OK, but not worth the price of entry. [/QUOTE]

Verification