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<blockquote data-quote="Django" data-source="post: 2415501" data-attributes="member: 19866">I've had great success with Green Ronin's Mythic Vistas books. I don't play any of them precisely by the book; I mine them for details instead. Most recently, I picked up Hamunaptra and had a blast running a series of adventures using a lot of the material from it. We sprinkled a few bits from Testament in there as well. With those two books, a pile of history texts from the library, and a viewing of several choice movies, I had the whole game nailed for weeks.I don't like how exhaustively some of the official settings are documented. I started running Eberron last year when the setting book came out and have found that as the later books came out, they were contradicting a lot of what I had done in the months before their release. Rather than try to resolve the differences, I just elected not to buy any of the later Eberron books. I stopped with the Sharn book. I imagine that when this campaign is finished, I'll have to decide whether to bite the bullet and invest in the rest of the source books. Early signs indicate not.I look forward to the Wilderlands Boxed Set. If its anything like the original, it will fit my needs very well. I don't want to read history, I want nuts and bolts encounters and such. I can make up my own history and would rather not have to worry about diverging from the published setting.It really got annoying when I returned to Greyhawk shortly after the Living Greyhawk Gazetter came out. I'd played Greyhawk for ages back in the day and suddenly here is this treatise on a Greyhawk that wasn't my own. I found that my newer players would expect the Greyhawk from the Gazetter and would be disappointed when -my- Greyhawk was different - even after I warned them of this very fact.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Django, post: 2415501, member: 19866"] I've had great success with Green Ronin's Mythic Vistas books. I don't play any of them precisely by the book; I mine them for details instead. Most recently, I picked up Hamunaptra and had a blast running a series of adventures using a lot of the material from it. We sprinkled a few bits from Testament in there as well. With those two books, a pile of history texts from the library, and a viewing of several choice movies, I had the whole game nailed for weeks. I don't like how exhaustively some of the official settings are documented. I started running Eberron last year when the setting book came out and have found that as the later books came out, they were contradicting a lot of what I had done in the months before their release. Rather than try to resolve the differences, I just elected not to buy any of the later Eberron books. I stopped with the Sharn book. I imagine that when this campaign is finished, I'll have to decide whether to bite the bullet and invest in the rest of the source books. Early signs indicate not. I look forward to the Wilderlands Boxed Set. If its anything like the original, it will fit my needs very well. I don't want to read history, I want nuts and bolts encounters and such. I can make up my own history and would rather not have to worry about diverging from the published setting. It really got annoying when I returned to Greyhawk shortly after the Living Greyhawk Gazetter came out. I'd played Greyhawk for ages back in the day and suddenly here is this treatise on a Greyhawk that wasn't my own. I found that my newer players would expect the Greyhawk from the Gazetter and would be disappointed when -my- Greyhawk was different - even after I warned them of this very fact. [/QUOTE]

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