Should I buy Complete books? Advice needed...

[JoeGKushner]

I haven't gotten as much use out of the complete books as some.

Having said that, Brother Kane was a rogue 5/ paladin 5, shadowbane inquisitor 10, who originated from Compleate Adventurer, had Monkey grip from Compleate Warrior, and a host of other bits here and there that made him an enjoyable character for me to play even though I wasn't strictly, the front-line fighter.

They provide different options. For example, one player was an elf mage and he took the swashbuckler class.

In the game I'm in now, someone is using the scott class.

If you're looking for more options, these books have them.

 

[Odhanan]

I like the Complete books - they give me some inspiration for NPCs and represent a good variety of PC progressions. But you don't *need* them, especially if you have the class books of 3.0.

 

[cmanos]

check e-bay and half.com for used copies of books as well.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Complete Adventuer is $17.99 at Buy.com. get $25 worth and it's free s&h and no tax. Good deal.

 

[Arnwyn]

What should I do??!!?!

I wouldn't buy them, but that's just me.

I've found the 3.0 books work just fine in my game, with only minimal (or no) changes required.

 

[tylermalan]

Well Janx, you're definitely right about money burning a hole in my pocket, and realistically, I probably won't use them nearly as much as some people, but I would probably buy them if I could get them cheap. As such, I'm going to check buy.com and half.com to see if I can get them cheap, and might buy them then. Thanks everybody!

 

[TheGM]

Ok, so I want to buy the "Complete" books, but I don't want to! Gosh, I want more options for the core stuff that doesn't deviate too much from the WOTC norm, but I already have all the 3E class books - you know, Masters of the Wild and what have you. I almost don't want to buy the Complete Books just because its more money that I feel like I've already spent.

What should I do??!!?!

How much money do you have?

That's what it boils down to. I really really really like the core classes in the complete books (with one or two exceptions, as one would expect, not all classes fit all campaigns), but if you don't have the money to spend, don't kill yourself. My players have used only one class out of them, and in all honesty, I ported the Warmage (with massive modifications inspred by RoleMaster and HackMaster) to C&C and it sees more use than any classes from the complete books do in my 3.5 games.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

As others have said, some of the new base classes are really good -- particularly the swashbuckler, hexblade, warlock and scout. I've used bits and pieces from all of them, but they are by no means essential. I haven't even looked at my 3.0 splatbooks recently.

Cheers


Richard

 

[tetsujin28]

I vacillated for a while over the Complete books. But given the amount of use I've gotten out of them (tons, especially Warrior, Adventurer, and Divine), and how cheap they are on Amazon, I think they're a great deal. Your party's divine casters will thank you for all the extra spells on their lists, some of which absolutely rock. The scout base class has been a big hit with our group's former ranger/rogue, who just converted her PC straight over to levels in Scout, and hasn't looked back. She isn't even really interested in PrC -- just 20 levels of scout

I think some of the changes to the older prestige classes are a bit silly. The templar, frex, ends up needing a new feat which is pretty darn useless unless you add an entire new category of magic items to the campaign (relics). We just retconned the old reqs. And why no Devoted Defender, one of the niftiest classes in Sword & Fist? But these are minor quibbles, really. There's so much good stuff in them that way outweighs the iffy.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

If you've got the money to blow, sure. Why not? They're fun to read, have interesting tidbits in them, and can be of some use.

On the other hand, I own all of them and they seldom see use since the PHB really does have so many options that it's difficult to use them up.