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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 1522293" data-attributes="member: 474">I have to say that the Book of the Righteous is one of the most overhyped books I've yet seen.The gods are decent, but break no new ground; they aren't fundamentally different from gods in Greyhawk or in the Forgotten Realms.  The book has alignment issues; this issue alone is so extreme in its treatment that it's hard to do it justice in a paragraph.  Everything is broken into quantum categories for each alignment.  (For example, all CG clerics worship Urian one way and all CN clerics worship him another.)The book has balance issues; prestige classes (esp. Eagles of Urian) aren't well designed.  The alternate paladin is popular, but poor in flavor and only mediocre in balance in 3.0 -- in 3.5 the balance is way off.I bought the BotR because I wanted a 'toolbox' book discussing religion and presenting gods and mythology as a working example.  Instead I have an unused book sitting on my bookshelf.  Don't get me wrong -- I tried to use it to get at least some value out of my $40, but it just didn't work.I really have nothing good to say about this book, and that's an unusual position for me to be in.  I *wish* I could say something nice, but I haven't found anything that inspired my game or saved me even a minute of preperation.</blockquote>