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<blockquote data-quote="Failed Saving Throw" data-source="post: 5325693" data-attributes="member: 45116">I'm gonna have to totally agree with you on Dark Sun; in fact, it's the recent purchases on the Campaign Setting and Creature Catalog that have me suddenly doubting the future for WoTC. The Campaign Setting is a pretty solid effort, but the art in the book is all over the place, and on some pages it's obvious that they pulled art from wherever they could just to fill space (there's too many examples of people in metal armor, wielding metal weapons, etc.). The Creature Catalog is perhaps the most shockingly lazy 4E product I have seen to date. It did nothing more than recycle some of the &quot;core&quot; monsters from previously published versions of Dark Sun. There is not a single new monster in the Creature Catalog. Not one. In other words, there was no creative growth in the monster department whatsoever. The book is nothing more than a big &quot;stat bloc conversion&quot; of 2E monsters into the world of 4E. Plus, the interior art is largely <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, too small, and fails miserably to live up to the genius visions of Brom and Baxa from 2E. I'm gonna go into this in greater detail later, but I just bought the Creature Catalog yesterday and it really, really pissed me off.Oh, and let's not forget that because WoTC simply refuses to hire enough qualified people to run DDI, the inclusion of all the Dark Sun material has been delayed &quot;until early October,&quot; which in WoTC parlance means &quot;some time before New Year's.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Failed Saving Throw, post: 5325693, member: 45116"] I'm gonna have to totally agree with you on Dark Sun; in fact, it's the recent purchases on the Campaign Setting and Creature Catalog that have me suddenly doubting the future for WoTC. The Campaign Setting is a pretty solid effort, but the art in the book is all over the place, and on some pages it's obvious that they pulled art from wherever they could just to fill space (there's too many examples of people in metal armor, wielding metal weapons, etc.). The Creature Catalog is perhaps the most shockingly lazy 4E product I have seen to date. It did nothing more than recycle some of the "core" monsters from previously published versions of Dark Sun. There is not a single new monster in the Creature Catalog. Not one. In other words, there was no creative growth in the monster department whatsoever. The book is nothing more than a big "stat bloc conversion" of 2E monsters into the world of 4E. Plus, the interior art is largely :):):):):), too small, and fails miserably to live up to the genius visions of Brom and Baxa from 2E. I'm gonna go into this in greater detail later, but I just bought the Creature Catalog yesterday and it really, really pissed me off. Oh, and let's not forget that because WoTC simply refuses to hire enough qualified people to run DDI, the inclusion of all the Dark Sun material has been delayed "until early October," which in WoTC parlance means "some time before New Year's." [/QUOTE]

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