Shards of Memory OOC

[Bront]

Yodeling Telepath? Sounds loud.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Y'know, when I left for MIT last year, it was brutally simple for me to decide what gaming books to bring--I knew there were no D&D players, so I just brought the core three in case any of the freshman surprised me. Then I stopped lurking on ENWorld, and well...now I'm not sure what to bring--not enough room. So if you had your choice from all the (non-adventure--I don't buy adventures) books made by TSR/Wizards from 2e and 3e (not that I have them all, of course), and you had to narrow it down, what would you guys bring?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yodeling Telepath? Sounds loud.

Eidolons are very different than yodeling

 

[unleashed]

Y'know, when I left for MIT last year, it was brutally simple for me to decide what gaming books to bring--I knew there were no D&D players, so I just brought the core three in case any of the freshman surprised me. Then I stopped lurking on ENWorld, and well...now I'm not sure what to bring--not enough room. So if you had your choice from all the (non-adventure--I don't buy adventures) books made by TSR/Wizards from 2e and 3e (not that I have them all, of course), and you had to narrow it down, what would you guys bring?

Apart from the 3 core books I'd bring the Complete's, XPH, and as many monster books as you can fit in. (I think I do nearly have all of them, though like you no adventures).

 

[Bront]

Other than the core 3 (Though you can probably get away without the MM, as you can get most of that info online at the 2 SRD sites), I'd bring the completes, XPH (Though, again, SRD may say no to this, depends on how much you expect to need it in a game), perhaps the races books, and I'd probably bring any Eberron books, since I like the setting.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Apart from the 3 core books I'd bring the Complete's, XPH, and as many monster books as you can fit in. (I think I do nearly have all of them, though like you no adventures).

You've almost picked out the first things I got off the shelves exactly (the only difference is that I do not like Complete Divine, so swap that for Unearthed Arcana, but I definitely pulled off every monster book I have--even Monsters of Faerun). But I do have room for more. The next thing I brought is the most useful of my Spelljammer books, and I've started taking some unusual things for one or two entries I might use some day (e.g. Encyclopaedia Magica Volume I made the cut so far, but not the others, and Wizard's Spell Compendium IV made it, but not the others. The 2e Planescape Compendiums almost made the cut because Planescape and DiTerlizzi's are both cool, but it might get in there later)

 

[Rystil Arden]

Other than the core 3 (Though you can probably get away without the MM, as you can get most of that info online at the 2 SRD sites), I'd bring the completes, XPH (Though, again, SRD may say no to this, depends on how much you expect to need it in a game), perhaps the races books, and I'd probably bring any Eberron books, since I like the setting.

Well my brother owns Races of Eberron and ECS, so I'm not getting my hands on that. I think that Races of Stone and Destiny are mine and Races of the Wild is his. Those are definitely books I'm thinking of bringing, although one of the Illumian runes failed the Divine Metamagic morbidly-broken test

 

[Bront]

I use those books mostly for the feats, and even then, they didn't impress me much. Didn't read into the new races, though the Golieth looked fun. The Arcane Hirophant in Races of the Wild is fun too, I want to play one once.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I use those books mostly for the feats, and even then, they didn't impress me much.

Not a very positive review considering you just picked to bring them over, say Draconomicon (Grrr...I can bring Draconomicon but I can't bring Lords of Madness)

Arcane Hierophant does look neat indeed--Mmm, Familiar Companion.

 

[unleashed]

You've almost picked out the first things I got off the shelves exactly (the only difference is that I do not like Complete Divine, so swap that for Unearthed Arcana, but I definitely pulled off every monster book I have--even Monsters of Faerun). But I do have room for more. The next thing I brought is the most useful of my Spelljammer books, and I've started taking some unusual things for one or two entries I might use some day (e.g. Encyclopaedia Magica Volume I made the cut so far, but not the others, and Wizard's Spell Compendium IV made it, but not the others. The 2e Planescape Compendiums almost made the cut because Planescape and DiTerlizzi's are both cool, but it might get in there later)

Well I wasn't much help then...UA...doh

Didn't think of SJ, EM, or SC, as my brother has them not me.

I'd also suggest Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue and the Arms and Equipment Guide (3e) for the miscellaneous bit and pieces in them. Any of the Draconomicon, Libris Mortis, Lords or Madness, the Race books, would have suggested all of them the first time but you said you had limited space.