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What are the 10 most important d20/OGL books?
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<blockquote data-quote="nothing to see here" data-source="post: 3027039" data-attributes="member: 16432"><p>Please take this post in the good spirit it is intended...good humoured curiosity.</p><p></p><p>I just want to give you full props for including "The Foundation"...on your list of important books. If it suits your style of play -- I'm delighted that it works for you. </p><p></p><p>I'm just wondering if you included it on the "important" list is, perhaps, some sort of ironic statement...."important" as an example of bad game design or something.</p><p></p><p>This, now forgotten, book was widely hearladed as a singularly terrible release even during the height of the d20 boom. </p><p></p><p>It's composite review from 4 Enworld reviewers is the absolute lowest value reviews on this site can receive..."One star"</p><p></p><p>some quotes from those now classic reviewsreviews :</p><p></p><p>From Orion: </p><p></p><p>"I was genuinely excited when I saw the book, then I opened it...I just have to wonder how the creators of this game system would think we'd shell out our money for it."</p><p></p><p>From Warchild:</p><p></p><p>"This game is quite possibly the worst product i have bought, for any game system, in my 18+ years of gaming. Ever. i mean it. This is not a joke....The Setting provided is terribly stock and inpsires absolutely no interest and the art is at a level to which i can only wish i was actually blind."</p><p></p><p>From RaveN :</p><p></p><p>"To echo other reviewers, the WORST roleplaying product that I have purchased in 22 years of gaming... Art could have been done by a eigth-grader sitting in a boring English class. The core storyline was amatuerish and uninspiring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nothing to see here, post: 3027039, member: 16432"] Please take this post in the good spirit it is intended...good humoured curiosity. I just want to give you full props for including "The Foundation"...on your list of important books. If it suits your style of play -- I'm delighted that it works for you. I'm just wondering if you included it on the "important" list is, perhaps, some sort of ironic statement...."important" as an example of bad game design or something. This, now forgotten, book was widely hearladed as a singularly terrible release even during the height of the d20 boom. It's composite review from 4 Enworld reviewers is the absolute lowest value reviews on this site can receive..."One star" some quotes from those now classic reviewsreviews : From Orion: "I was genuinely excited when I saw the book, then I opened it...I just have to wonder how the creators of this game system would think we'd shell out our money for it." From Warchild: "This game is quite possibly the worst product i have bought, for any game system, in my 18+ years of gaming. Ever. i mean it. This is not a joke....The Setting provided is terribly stock and inpsires absolutely no interest and the art is at a level to which i can only wish i was actually blind." From RaveN : "To echo other reviewers, the WORST roleplaying product that I have purchased in 22 years of gaming... Art could have been done by a eigth-grader sitting in a boring English class. The core storyline was amatuerish and uninspiring. [/QUOTE]
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