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<blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 3362858" data-attributes="member: 8849"><p><strong>Tome of Battle: Book of the Nine Swords</strong>: If you like inserting wuxia-styled combat into your D&D game. It's style is not for everyone.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and Truename</strong>: Adds three new magic systems to the game: pact binding, shadow magic, and truenaming. Balance is all over the place, with most abilities being underpowered, but the flavor (for the pact and shadow sections) is pretty great. </p><p></p><p><strong>Player's Handbook II</strong>: Has some really cool feats, spells, rules for retraining your character, affiliation rules, alternate class abilities, and some nifty new standard classes. It's really nice.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss</strong>: If you really like demons, buy this book. Also, buy this book if you love having books that kick all sorts of arse. </p><p></p><p><strong>Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells</strong>: Not as good as FCI, but it has some great ideas for using devils in campaigns. Much better than the similar section in FCI, even if the other book is, overall, better IMO.</p><p></p><p><strong>Complete Mage</strong>: Pretty nifty book, surprisingly. Not just a rehash of Complete Arcane, though it does build upon lots of material in there. It's not terribly needed, but it might be worth a look.</p><p></p><p><strong>Expedition to Castle Ravenloft</strong>: Revisits the old classic module and expands upon it adding extra stuff for PC's to do in Barovia. My opinion on this one changes every day, some days I think it's really nifty, other days... I don't. It might be worth a look.</p><p></p><p><strong>Red Hand of Doom</strong> - Adventure: Gets lots of praise here, though I don't own it. Basically sets PC's up in a 'race against time/invading army' plot. It looks really cool IMO.</p><p></p><p>Avoid:</p><p><strong>Complete Psionic</strong>: At best, it's meh, at worst, it's a waste of money. Which is too bad, since I like psionics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Cityscape</strong>: An exceptionally average book. It touches on lots of stuff, but doesn't really do much with it. Also, the mechanics are pretty blah too.</p><p></p><p>3rd Party:</p><p><strong>World of Warcraft: Monster Guide</strong>: If you love WoW like I do, then this book is for you. It's a very pretty book with a good range of monsters. Unfortunately, it also covers a lot of the same ground that the MM3.5 covers (with stats for dire animals, dinosaurs, skeletons, and zombies), and while most of the mechanics are solid looking, some are wonky. Overall, I liked it a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pants, post: 3362858, member: 8849"] [b]Tome of Battle: Book of the Nine Swords[/b]: If you like inserting wuxia-styled combat into your D&D game. It's style is not for everyone. [b]Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and Truename[/b]: Adds three new magic systems to the game: pact binding, shadow magic, and truenaming. Balance is all over the place, with most abilities being underpowered, but the flavor (for the pact and shadow sections) is pretty great. [b]Player's Handbook II[/b]: Has some really cool feats, spells, rules for retraining your character, affiliation rules, alternate class abilities, and some nifty new standard classes. It's really nice. [b]Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss[/b]: If you really like demons, buy this book. Also, buy this book if you love having books that kick all sorts of arse. [b]Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells[/b]: Not as good as FCI, but it has some great ideas for using devils in campaigns. Much better than the similar section in FCI, even if the other book is, overall, better IMO. [b]Complete Mage[/b]: Pretty nifty book, surprisingly. Not just a rehash of Complete Arcane, though it does build upon lots of material in there. It's not terribly needed, but it might be worth a look. [b]Expedition to Castle Ravenloft[/b]: Revisits the old classic module and expands upon it adding extra stuff for PC's to do in Barovia. My opinion on this one changes every day, some days I think it's really nifty, other days... I don't. It might be worth a look. [b]Red Hand of Doom[/b] - Adventure: Gets lots of praise here, though I don't own it. Basically sets PC's up in a 'race against time/invading army' plot. It looks really cool IMO. Avoid: [b]Complete Psionic[/b]: At best, it's meh, at worst, it's a waste of money. Which is too bad, since I like psionics. :( [b]Cityscape[/b]: An exceptionally average book. It touches on lots of stuff, but doesn't really do much with it. Also, the mechanics are pretty blah too. 3rd Party: [b]World of Warcraft: Monster Guide[/b]: If you love WoW like I do, then this book is for you. It's a very pretty book with a good range of monsters. Unfortunately, it also covers a lot of the same ground that the MM3.5 covers (with stats for dire animals, dinosaurs, skeletons, and zombies), and while most of the mechanics are solid looking, some are wonky. Overall, I liked it a lot. [/QUOTE]
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