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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 1319410" data-attributes="member: 474">Funny, that's the first thing on my list.  I got no use *whatsoever* out of the Book of the Righeous, and I run a campaign with a strong emphasis on the gods.  In fact, out of all the D&D books I've ever bought, this is the prchase I regret most.  I didn't like the mechanics of the new classes, sapping all flavor out of already tired archetypes; I didn't like the new spells or domains; I thought the creation story was same-old, same-old; I enjoyed reading the evil section, but didn't get any use out of it.  I despised their take on alignment, I hated their strongly good-slanted pantheon, I found their gods to be as flat as Greyhawk gods or FR gods -- and for me, that's a horrible comment.  I didn't like the stats for the new creatures, which I've never used as a result.  The new PrCs weren't good by my standards; they were about at the same level as what I see on our House Rules forum.The cover art is excellent, the best part of the book; the art on pages 30, 40, 51, 77, 89, 122, 124, 165, 215, 237, and 248 is pretty good, but I disliked the rest pretty strongly.  The space wasted on 1Eesque forms of address by level (in paragraphs throughout the book, as well as pages 313-317) isn't too much, but as I'd never consider using them it's just another strike against the book for me.More random things I didn't like: backward prophecy mechnics (104-105); magic items -- especially since they don't have prices, making treasure valuation hard (even if they're not sold); holy warriors, especially since they're requried to be good even if seving a nongood deity; the perpetuation of the 2E CN alignment myth (96, 218-219, and many more); the enforsed segregation of evil and nonevil members of the same faith (216-219 and elsewhere).In short, aside from the cover and a tenth of the art, I found the book utterly useless.  There's nothing particularly creative in the book, which is perhaps my biggest complaint; if all I had to do was tear out the mechanics by the roots and rewrite them, I'd have something useful after 10 hours of prep.  Now I have nothing regardless of preperaion, unless I cut out the pictures I like and use them for props.</blockquote>

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