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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HEATHEN ORACLE 2" data-source="post: 1256070" data-attributes="member: 9384"><p>I was looking at the Draconomicon and Complete Warrior, and wasn't too impressed. I was wondering if I was just biased, having written From Novice to Master, or if others who have read the material feel the same? I thought the Dragon Slayer in the Draconomicon was done pretty poorly (not on par with even Mongoose's version, much less Heathen Oracle's) and in the Complete Warrior, the duelist was pretty bland (and still a prestige class---I think it should warrant a full 1-20 levels class which is how I designed the class for From Novice to Master (you don't become a master and one with a weapon by starting out as a warrior or whatever, meeting prereqs---you train with that weapon from an early age and forgo other opportunities in order to gain the abilities of a duelist, in my opinion---maybe it could and should be done both ways, but I think as a full career class, the idea of a duelist is more fully embodied). They also had a class sort of like our crypt tracker, but again, it didn't seem as impressive. Overall, the artwork was lacking for the new pres. classes, but there were two outstanding artists. The prestige classes themselves had an angle or two I wish I had thought of (like hog-tie for the bounty hunter, but we have our quick-cuff. Still, I wish I had included versions of both), but I think our classes hit far more angles and show more depth than the WotC versions. I think they should have been a bit more innovative, and have a lot to learn from the smaller companies, like Monte's Malhavoc (though that's probably the 'top' of the small companies), which show a lot of thought and insight and has the rather cool idea of "suites" for a paladin type of prestige class (which I may blatantly steal in the future <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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