Splatbooks


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I'm pretty sure that "splat" is the name that copy editors give to the symbol "*".

So "the complete book of *" comes to be called a "* book", pronounced "splat book."
 

I have all of them, theones that get referd to he most are MoW and T&B. All the others rarely get opened at the gaming table even though we have thieves and clerics and fighters and monks in the party.

Aaron.
 

aha! Darkness hath fled!

Tiefling said:
They're called splatbooks because using the stuff in them helps you make things go SPLAT.

thanks, i guess from my perspectic (a DM's one) i could just as easily think of them as things to make my players go splat!

hehe, thanks

joe b.
 

Cheiromancer said:
I'm pretty sure that "splat" is the name that copy editors give to the symbol "*".

So "the complete book of *" comes to be called a "* book", pronounced "splat book."

Thats really close to how they started beign called splat books but not quite there. Over on the White Wolf e-mail lists they would talk about WW's various Clan Books, Tribe Books, Kith books and everything else books. After a while people started referring to them as *book Tremere or *book Pooka since everyone knew what supernatural thing belonged to what game. And since "*' symbol is called the splat it soon became common to refer to them as splatbooks in general.

I feel like such a geek for knowing that.
 


Song and Silence WAS in fact the worst one (and MotW the best), but the rogue feats in S&S are quite acceptable. Hamstring especially is sweet, and a couple others which I can't remember right now (memory...failing...).

I thought some of the feats in T&B to be way overpowered, especially depending on their interpretation.
 

T&B is my favorite. MotW is good (Nice and THICK).

I've used several stuff from Tomb and Blood; Acolyte of the Skin as a minor villain pops to mind. And, Bleak Academy is in my campaign (In the Mire of Dead Men). Although the PCs will never go there, they met a quirky necromancer who was supposed to be a teacher there, but due to political strings, he was hired by some clerics to do the necromancer thing.

I felt DotF was just bland, and didn't get much from it except the blinding shield thing. The feats I Did use for a paladin.
 

tabrumj said:


Thats really close to how they started beign called splat books but not quite there. Over on the White Wolf e-mail lists they would talk about WW's various Clan Books, Tribe Books, Kith books and everything else books. After a while people started referring to them as *book Tremere or *book Pooka since everyone knew what supernatural thing belonged to what game. And since "*' symbol is called the splat it soon became common to refer to them as splatbooks in general.

I feel like such a geek for knowing that.

And, from my old DOS days, I remember that when doing a search for executable files, I'd type "dir *.exe"

Thus, "*" stood for "I don't care what's here."

So I'm guessing that's why they started saying *book. Since they didn't care what was at the start of it.
 

radferth said:
On the contrary, I was very disappointed in the DoF and S&F prestige classes. Although both had some good classes, many of them seemed extremely uninspired. IMHO, the problem is that many of the prestige classes were made very generic, just a collection of special abilities with a name tacked on. I'd rather see pretige classes that fill some specific specialized role in their world (e.g. how about a Healer of Pelor, rather than a templar). Even if I don't use that specific deity, the class might be interesting enough to tailor for my own campaign.

I think the main problem with Prestige Classes in DotF (or any simliar book) is that Prestige Classes & Clerics just cry out for specific gods for each Prestige Class (or at least related gods). However, DotF is supposed to be a more generic book. The only ways to do that are to create very general prestige classes, monotheistic prestige classes or both.

To me, neither option is very satisfactory. I don't run a campaign with a Monotheistic religion. Also, the generic classes lack a significant amount of flavor. I would even have accepted a "God of the Sun" prestige class or a "Goddess of the Night" prestige class that might be adapted. Nothing like that was there.

Glyfair of Glamis
 
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