Splatbooks

[Tiefling]

DAMMIT!

 

[Cheiromancer]

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."

 

[jester47]

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.

 

[jgbrowning]

aha! Darkness hath fled!

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.

 

[tabrumj]

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.

 

[Tiefling]

Whatever happened to the asterisk?

 

[Hakkenshi]

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.

 

[Xarlen]

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.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

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.

 

[Glyfair]

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