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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 4040819" data-attributes="member: 29746">Ah, links from other boards- I wondered why the campaign settings were doing so well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But, very tough choice here.While I agree that both Eberron and Ptolus are both staggeringly beautiful books chock-full of gaming goodness that can be ported to other settings easily if the DM is willing to do a little retooling, I had to go with Unearthed Arcana in the end for &quot;replay value.&quot; There are so many variants in that book that you could make new campaigns trying out different combinations of them for decades, if not centuries, and still not run out. And every last one I've tried so far has been helpful to my game. Campaign settings like Ptolus and Eberron are the best of somebody else's game, but UA lets me literally make the game my own.I would have picked Ptolus if I had picked a setting, though- the level of detail is nothing short of monumental, and I'm a very detail-oriented guy.For current campaign utility I'd have to go with Spell Compendium, but in the end I went with maximum long-term utility.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 4040819, member: 29746"] Ah, links from other boards- I wondered why the campaign settings were doing so well. :) But, [b]very[/b] tough choice here. While I agree that both Eberron and Ptolus are both staggeringly beautiful books chock-full of gaming goodness that can be ported to other settings easily if the DM is willing to do a little retooling, I had to go with Unearthed Arcana in the end for "replay value." There are so many variants in that book that you could make new campaigns trying out different combinations of them for decades, if not centuries, and still not run out. And every last one I've tried so far has been helpful to my game. Campaign settings like Ptolus and Eberron are the best of somebody else's game, but UA lets me literally make the game my own. I would have picked Ptolus if I had picked a setting, though- the level of detail is nothing short of monumental, and I'm a very detail-oriented guy. For current campaign utility I'd have to go with Spell Compendium, but in the end I went with maximum long-term utility. [/QUOTE]

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