The Best & Worst of 3rd Edition: R2: Best of WotC (poll #5: please vote)

[Psion]

Remember Sword and Fist?

Yeah? Most of what I consider good content in Complete Warrior is reprints of Sword & Fist. Stuff like the (IMO justly) widely derided Samurai and the underpowered Hexblade are the flagbearers of the new material in Complete Warrior.

IMO, the only good new thing Complete Warrior brought to the table was tactical feats.

 

[TerraDave]

Yeah?

Yeah! A monkey gripped mercurial great sword and 5lbs of errata Yeah!

 

[Psion]

Yeah! A monkey gripped mercurial great sword and 5lbs of errata Yeah!

I remember that errata. I remember players talked about the pages and pages of errata... when that errata was mostly entry after entry of adding (Su), (Sp), or (Ex) to class abilities, one per paragraph single column. I daresay the grousing on S&F was exaggerated in the extreme.

As for Mercurial Greatsword: I'll take a one paragraph plus line entry waste of a weapon over a multi-page wasted core class any day.

 

[TerraDave]

200 votes, come on, I know we can do it!

 

[diaglo]

I'll take a one paragraph plus line entry waste of a weapon over a multi-page wasted core class any day.

i'll take an antacid.
i think my stomach hurts from list.

 

[TerraDave]

With about 40 more votes, the top ten have stayed pretty steady

Player's Handbook II 60.47%
Unearthed Arcana 56.98%
Draconomicon 48.84%
Magic Item Compendium 48.26%
Spell Compendium 45.93%
Complete Arcane 44.77%
Eberron Campaign Setting 44.19%
Complete Adventurer 42.44%
Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead 41.28%
Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations 41.28%

PHB II has edged out UA, MIC edged out the Draconomicon, and Complete Adventurer droped down a few slots.

Now if only a few hundred more people would bother to vote...

With 220 votes, it has remained pretty stable:

Player's Handbook II 59.09%
Unearthed Arcana 55.45%
Spell Compendium 48.18%
Draconomicon 46.82%
Magic Item Compendium 44.55%
Eberron Campaign Setting 42.27%
Complete Arcane 41.82%
Complete Adventurer 40.91%
Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead 40.45%
Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations 40.45%

We may be ready to go to the final round

 

[Nyaricus]

Cool idea

 

[Aus_Snow]

oops, edited.

Glad to see Heroes of Horror did OK.

 

[TerraDave]

HoH is in about the top 15...and given the 100+ products that have been voted on at various stages, that is pretty good.

Nyaricus: thanks and your welcome.

 

[jeffh]

I'm surprised to see Forge of Fury on this list. Did people actually prefer it to, say, Bastion of Broken Souls, or are there just a lot more people familiar with it? I know it made Dungeon's top 30 but I also remember nearly everyone who commented on the list finding that bizarre.