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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 1427317" data-attributes="member: 7261">I can't deny that, but let's be honest for a moment.  Comparing the Warcraft D20 book to the FRCS is like apples to oranges.  WotC raised the bar on setting books so high with the FRCS that Warcraft D20 is just... underwhelming as a "setting book."  What we got is a short book with excess white space that constantly refers to the A&HC, a product that wasn't even out when it was written.  As a result, some of the references (namely technology) aren't even IN the A&HC.Granted, I'm coming down hard on Warcraft D20.  The book IS very well written and lays the groundwork for an interesting spin on the D&D game.  However, it's incomplete as a setting book.  Perhaps this is more the fault of Arthaus and S&SS than the designers of the book.  It seems as if they were handcuffed to a low page count, larger than necessary font and line spacing, and poor layouts around images.  I can tell by the text of the book that they wanted it to be so much more than it was.That said, if you don't mind doing a lot of the work for yourself, WCD20 gives you some ingredients (races, classes, feats, and brief overviews of Kalimdor) to start with.  It's just not the whole setting like FRCS is.  Yes, WotC have released accessories for FR since then, but you've never NEEDED them like you need Warcraft D20 accessories.Of course, again I stress, it IS a good book.  It just fails to do everything it aimed to do.</blockquote>

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