Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 753889" data-attributes="member: 4">Yep, it's all about tradeoffs.If you buy RoF but don't have the FRCS, then there are 15 races in RoF that you can't use.  I'm not counting the human ethnicities or the races you can find in the PHB.If you buy RoF and want those 15 races, then you have to buy a $40 book, or you need to come up with stats yourself.  Probably not too hard to do, but then why buy the book at all if you're going to make up your own stuff?If you include the racial data for those 15 races, then you either up the page count and presumably the cost, or reduce the added info like the new spells, prestige classes, magic items, or feats.  Here's the thing, though -- I would argue that the racial data on average is no more than 1/6 of a page long.  At most it's 1/4 of a page long.  So let's use the conservative estimate and say that this adds 4 pages to the book (or removes 4 pages of stuff to make room).  [I personally think that would be the ideal situation.  Then you truly have a stand-alone race book where all of the races could be plopped into other settings, homebrews, etc. ]The other "ideal" situations, of course, are a) you already own the FRCS and so this isn't a big deal (I own the FRCS, for instance, so I can make use of all of the races in Rof); or b) you didn't want to use those 15 particular races anyway and only need the stats of the other races.</blockquote>