Stormwrack: Buying?

[SSS-Druid]

Hey, look! It's SSS-Druid!
Does the name apply anymore? Should it be WotC freelancer druid or somesuch.

Actually, no. It really doesn't apply anymore. I suppose I should trade up, now. Curses. I wonder what the chances are of having Someone In Charge just change the name of this account for me? Anyway...

Heh. My reviews are at a snails pace and compensated products have priority, so those are going to have to take precedence ATM.

Ah. Well, here's looking forward to it, whenever it sees the light of day.

At any rate, as I am running an extended seafaring game, getting the book was a natural.
Anything you want to say about the way you feel it turned out?

Honestly? I absolutely can't wait to see it. My copy should be arriving in the next day or two. I know that quite a few things were changed from my original concept, but they all seem to have been pretty solid, well-reasoned changes. I can get a little too "out there" in my writing style, sometimes - its good to have someone rein me in.

I shall post my own thoughts once I see it, though.

 

[MonsterMash]

No, as I've got Seas of Blood and that pretty much meets my need for nautical stuff.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I'll be buying it later on this week. I liked the other two environ books, and this one sounds just as interesting.

Kane

 

[Toll Carom]

No, as I've got Seas of Blood and that pretty much meets my need for nautical stuff.

What an odd thing to read. To me, the thought of someone voluntarily choosing Seas of Blood over Stormwrack is like someone preferring to eat McDonald's over a good, home-cooked meal every day of the week: Not beyond the realm of reason, but utterly incomprehensible to me.

Happy gaming.

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CAS

 

[ForceUser]

Will you be getting Stormwrack?

No. The environment books don't add enough to the genre to warrant a $30 purchase. If they were ten-dollar splatbooks, I might buy them.

 

[Toll Carom]

No. The environment books don't add enough to the genre to warrant a $30 purchase. If they were ten-dollar splatbooks, I might buy them.

If they were splatbooks, then they probably wouldn't be environment books.

I see what you meant, though, and it's an interesting point. I don't think I agree, though. At their best, they're pivotal sourcebooks, covering pivotal aspects of the game. If/when they fall short, of course, that's something else entirely, but I don't think they have so far (at least not Frostburn or Stormwrack).

Happy gaming.

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CAS

 

[Hussar]

I admit that I really liked Sandstorm. The fact that I was running a desert based campaign at the time meant that it fit right into my camp. As I'm no longer running a naval based camp anymore, I will likely hold off on buying this.

My big question is, how does it handle ship combat? Seas of Blood, Broadsides!!, and a number of other books don't really do it for me when it comes to ship on ship action. Either they handwave it away a cinemagraphic or they get bogged down in too many details. I'd like to be able to run a ship to ship combat in under 15 hours, but, I'd also actually still like to run the combat as well. So, how does Stormwrack handle ship to ship combat? And, more importantly, crew to crew combat?

 

[Psion]

What an odd thing to read. To me, the thought of someone voluntarily choosing Seas of Blood over Stormwrack is like someone preferring to eat McDonald's over a good, home-cooked meal every day of the week: Not beyond the realm of reason, but utterly incomprehensible to me.

Dude... I really hate to suggest this knowing how you feel on the issue of all things Mongoose, but I think the books complement one another nicely. They cover one another's weaknesses well, I think.

And using McDonald's to slam something you don't like is so... John Wick.

 

[Nighthawk]

I bought it last week and read through it once over the weekend. I will have to read it several more times to get a better feel for it.

I just started a coastal campaign with a new group. Stormwrack looks to be a good book to use for that reason. I plan on using the some the material in next week's session.

My first impression is that I like the book and consider it a solid addition to the other two books in the series. hopefully I still feel that way after using the book (I imagine I will).

 

[Toll Carom]

I really hate to suggest this knowing how you feel on the issue of all things Mongoose, but I think the books complement one another nicely. They cover one another's weaknesses well, I think.

I can see how the concepts in each might do so, but here's the thing: The reason I feel the way I do about Mongoose is because the quality is so very low. As a result, the two books don't actually complement one another nicely, because one is WotC and well-written and the other is neither WotC nor well-written. That's m'logic.

And using McDonald's to slam something you don't like is so... John Wick.

I'll confess that old Mickey D was already on the braine, having just seen Supersize Me. Ugh.

Happy gaming!

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CAS