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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paulewaug" data-source="post: 1054619" data-attributes="member: 5899">Hey Joe, I must respectfully disagree with saying it suffers from "Palladiumness."At least with regards to the Mounted Warrior's mount stats.The entry in the book merely states: This mount may be a heavy warhorse..,a nightsaber panther...,or a dire wolf...-The GM will provide information about the mount...I am looking at the book and should state a disclaimer that I have not read the book all the way from cover to cover yet, nor am I exceptionally knowledgeable of the Warcraft 'universe.'I don't see anything under this particular subject that says "Refer to book x" or "stats can be found in book y," etc.One thing I like about the d20 system, something I am beginning to appreciate more as I continually but superfluous books is that it is easy to make things up as a DM as you want them to be, and a resource such as Enworld helps those of us that wish to seek to attain the karmic cycle of gaming "balance".  i.e. it's easy to make it up and not have to buy a book for it.That said the stats for heavy warhorse and dire wolf already exist in the MM, and as to a nightsaber panther, yes they will likely appear stated out in the "Manual of Monsters." But if I didn't want to wait for that or didn't want to have to buy another book it is left open IMO to just using the stats of a Lion from the MM.  Seems to be a balanced match compared to the other 2 options.Now it is nice that in the PHBv3.5 they provide "sample paladin's mounts" Heavy Warhorse. But that entry itself refers to the reader to "page 85 of the DMG for information on how to read a creature's statistics block."The Warcraft campaign setting does state it requires the use of the D&D PHB 3.5, a book that-in turn requires the other 2 core books by not including the stats for every type of creature which may be summoned using the various summoning spells, etc.Now I have seen mention that (on page 156 chapter 4) The necromancer is a prestige class that will be fully detailed in the forthcoming supplement Alliance & Horde Compendium But anybody could skip that if they didn't want to shell out the cash for it. <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=";)" />Now as I said I have not read the Entire book and could easily be missing such a things as was mentioned, but at least as far as MHO I have not had any feelings of Paladiumness.I am very impressed with this book in fact.Well that's my .02 on the subject so far.Hope it helps! Cheers! <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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