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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 209336" data-attributes="member: 546">Don't knock Spells & Spellcraft!I hardly found any useful information at all in Spells & Magic (certainly not enough to justify paying $25), but Spells & Spellcraft was loaded with crunchy bits and was hardcover for the SAME price! Spells & Spellcraft really broadens the horizon for all kinds of magic (including clerics and deities) and familiars. I would say Spells & Spellcraft is one of the few third party rulebooks to actually DESERVE to be labeled as a "core rulebook." It's simply *fantastic* in its creativity. I wish all third party (and WoTC) products could be as useful and inventive as Spells & Spellcraft. But Spells & Spellcraft isn't so much about adding new spells or classes as it is about reinventing the way we look at and (in game, LOL) practice magic, so YMMV.IMO, Bastion's products are overpriced, overproduced and have terrible art from Todd Morasch that looks all cartoony, garish and amateurish, enough so to actually *ruin* the flavor of the books (I've had fellow gamers pick up Arms & Armor and start making fun of its artwork--I had to point out some specific cool crunchy bits to justify my purchase to them, LOL). Though certainly all of Bastion's rulebooks have some good crunchy bits here and there, as a whole, IMO, their releases do not deliver enough quality content for the price charged. The only Bastion product I have bought is Arms & Armor, and while I won't rule out buying future products from them, I don't have the same level of anticipation for them as I originally had. Minions and Villains were both awful, IMO, and Alchemy & Herbalists just seemed too complicated and boring to implement. I did enjoy the free online DL of Scribes and Scrolls (or whatever it was called), but I would never have paid money for it--I doubt it will ever see much use IMC. I think Bastion should replace Todd Morasch as Art Director and primary artist and consider reducing the cover price (and removing the glossy paper and full color interior art). IMO, most gamers don't care about these extra fancy features and would prefer a cheaper format with B&W interiors on standard paper (unless we're talking about a major hardcover core rulebook type release, which Bastion's products aren't---they're optional splatbooks). Just my two cents.</blockquote>

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