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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3551318" data-attributes="member: 20741">I recommended the Phb2, MIC and Spell Compendium. I wanted to make an observation with resepct to the suggestion these are "players books".While the PHBII might be more of a player book - I would disagree that the Spell Compendium and MIC are not DM books. They most certainly are.Last I checked, the DM runs the encounters and the majority of spellcasters in the game. Similarly, when it comers to equipping NPCs and determining treasure - that's the DM's role, not the players.I use the Spell Compendium every session I run during the game.  I use the MIC between sessions for the most part - but the treasure tables are damned useful.It would be an extremely rare book out of the 90 some WotC hardcovers available that sees use every session as a DM. The PHB, the MM and the Spell Compendium are the books that do see contiuous use when I run - and the MIC is quickly taking that place within my sessions as well.Hell - I use the DMG less than I use the Spell Compendium. It's pretty hard to recommend something other than Spell Compendium and MIC to anyone over the competing choices because they feature an organized integration of the best of 70 other books. For a third book? Sure - you can slot a lot in there as a dealer's choice. The PHB II is better than most as it expands the choices available to your NPCs and to your players both. I'm not sure if most DMs are comfortable allowing their players to choose options, spalls and classes from books the DM does not own. In my experience, most DMs don't like it.</blockquote>

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