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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 1474706" data-attributes="member: 6562">Core: 3.5e Core books.Setting-specific stuff: Midnight (though I'm a player there), FRCS (though I was just a player there), Magic of Faerun (not opened in over a year), Arcana Unearthed (never used), and Freeport (never used).Campaign stuff: MM2, Fiend Folio, Book of Fiends, Manual of the Planes, Book of Vile Darkness, Unearthed Arcana, Expanded Psionics Handbook (yay!), Epic Level Handbook, Stronghold Builder's Guide, Shamanism (Green Ronin and Mongoose versions), and Quintessential Witch & Druid (didn't know any better).Character Creation Stuff: Savage Species, splatbooks, and many of the books listed above.Adventure Stuff: Book of Challenges, Book of Taverns, En Route -- I'd like to see more books of this sort, and far less of the "mega-module" type. In these mini-adventure books, I'd like to see more focus on the personalities involved than the stats of those people -- my house rules and homebrew setting interfere with using too much published stuff.-----I spend a lot of time working up unique monsters, including equipment and tactics, but I'll equally often just cut-n-paste from the SRD. Not all fights are that important. I spend far more time working out what's going on in the world around the PCs, so when they do whatever it is that they're going to do, I can describe what they see, who's there, and what effect they have on the world.The way I do this behind-the-scenes is: Evil has a timeline, and the non-PC forces of Goodness are reacting to Evil's timeline. Good is at a disadvantage in being reactive. So, in the timeline I've scripted out, Good ends up losing. The PCs are expected to ruin Evil's plans, just as they should be expected to ruin any plan made by the DM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(Oh, and there are several Evils out there, usually working at cross-purposes. Good still loses. Each Evil is quite strong.) -- N</blockquote>

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