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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 1832213" data-attributes="member: 10825">I easily and fully recommend the Divine and the Defeated if you're looking to get into the Scarred Lands setting. To a degree, I feel the book best represents it. Ghelspad covers the land, Creature Collection the monsters and Relics and Rituals a few of the spells, organizations and what not, but the setting is named for the aftermath of a divine war and this is the book that best describes those divinities and their various sects. If you're curious about the Scarred Lands but not certain you want to fully invest in the setting, though, you might be better off picking up Hollowfaust. It will give you a decent taste of the setting and, if the setting itself isn't necessarily to your liking, it's modular enough that you could probably plunk it down just about anywhere you wanted - your own homebrew or another campaign setting or the like and with little modification at that. It's only fault is that one of the major antagonists in the book - the sutak - are only detailed in the Creature Collection 2: Dark Menagerie, which I'm not inclined to recommend one way or another. Beyond those recommendations, the settings cornerstone books would also include the Creature Collection Revised and the Ghelspad hardcover; however, the Ghelspad book becomes less necessary if you happen to have the gazetteer already. I'd look into those books before listening to many other recommendations. I'd also consider what you already have that isn't Scarred Lands. For example, if you own the Manual of the Planes, Edge of Infinity isn't particularly different from it in a number of ways. Similarly, the quality of the various Scarred Lands class books isn't particularly too much better than those produced by other companies. As for which of the player's class guides for the setting I find to be the best, I'm with Joe: of those I've read (Clerics and Druids, Fighters and Barbarians, Bards, Sorcerers and Wizards), I found them to be kind of 'eh' all around. If I had to choose, I'd go with Clerics and Druids as being the better from a setting standpoint, and Fighters and Barbarians being a bit better when it comes to being useful beyond the Scarred Lands (however, I don't know that I'd recommend Fighters and Barbarians above the Complete Warrior; I probably wouldn't). In regards to the Termana hardcover, I personally enjoyed it. It has a number of questionable bits in it, but it offers a different take on the setting cosmology than what's in other books yet that's still setting appropriate. It also details the lands around the Blood Bayou, which I'm certain some are bound to be interested in, and is the only decent source for the forsaken elves that really exists at all (heck, I think the original, non-revised Creature Collection description of them is another of the few good sources for them, one that later author's would have done well by to read - and one that sadly wasn't reprinted in the Creature Collection Revised). It's fairly palpable that less love went into it than the first few Scarred Lands books, but it's essentially the last quality book the setting had printed for it, in my mind.</blockquote>

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