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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 2797028" data-attributes="member: 8461">In all honesty, the RL DMG had almost nothing that was in the original 3.0 campaign book. The RL PHB, however, was a 3.5E update for the campaign book.In terms of fluff, all of the RL core books are fairly fluffy. I found the RL DMG to be relatively non-specific compared to the campaign book/PHB. That is, the campaign book describes the rules and the world fairly well, whereas the DMG will give you a lot of example scenarios, organizations, and character ideas. It's largely a book of suggestions and advice for RL. I'd venture that it has less crunch than the PHB, and that's saying something.The campaign setting/PHB is more "concrete fluff". It presents an ignorant person's view of the world of Ravenloft, ignorant meaning that it describes the world without referencing darklords or the dread secrets of the various domains, exactly the way someone ignorant of those dark secrets would. It also has character creation rules, altered spells, fear, horror, and powers checks, curses, and alterations to classic monster types. The PHB doesn't have much that the campaign book doesn't, save for things like Magic Ratings for domains (affecting what levels of spells can be used, and how powerful they are).As for what'd work best...pick your poison.</blockquote>