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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1321857" data-attributes="member: 7394"><p>So I read through 7 pages of this list hoping that my stuff wouldn't turn up on the hated list over and over and over and was pleasantly surprised since most people are either voicing positive things about the Book of Exalted Deeds and the Oathbound campaign setting books or at least not putting them on their most hated list. There were one or two who didn't like them, but I can live with that. Heck, even if it was mostly negative comments, I could live with that too since it might give me some feedback on how to improve in the future.</p><p></p><p>Concerning Scarred Lands, I own a bunch of it, I don't use much, but I actually like all the hardbacks. CCI and CCII have enough good ideas in them to justify the cost, in my opinion. R&R I & II also have some good stuff in there. Of course since I have yet to set a game in the Scarred Lands I have to seperate out a great deal of the flavor text and just go with the raw descriptions and mechanics that occasionally make it into a game, but there's some salvagable stuff there. As someone pointed out, there is also a great deal of broken stuff there too, but I have yet to see anyone make the perfect book.</p><p></p><p>I won't name the ones that I truly regret. Or, more to the point, I don't regret buying them but I do hold them up as examples of what do not constitute good books. I would name them but I fear I would insult the people who worked on them and people on these boards would accuse me of heresy. There are a couple of <strong>very popular</strong> books that I feel have a higher value in potential heat than gaming material. Having said that, I feel the same about one book I worked on, and I'm not saying which one it was, but I bet more than one person would be completely surprised by it, if they've heard of it at all. One of the irritating things is that there have been plenty of titles through the years that I've thought are crap, but then I've had the chance to meet the book's authors and end up liking them quite a bit, and then end up hating myself for not liking their work. </p><p></p><p>I will list the books I'm happy with and would gladly purchase again. I have a pretty favorable opinion of most of the WotC books, but I'll list what I consider the creme de la creme. I'm leaving the titles I helped work on off my list of favorites since I'm obviously biased towards them (except for that one!)</p><p></p><p><strong>Necropolis </strong>(even though now I've bought it twice already since I own the original Mythus version). </p><p><strong>Tome of Horrors</strong></p><p><strong>Darwin's World 2E</strong></p><p><strong>D&D 3.5 Core</strong></p><p><strong>Fiend Folio</strong></p><p><strong>Manual of the Planes</strong></p><p><strong>D20 Modern</strong></p><p><strong>D20 Modern Menace Manual</strong></p><p><strong>Every last Necromancer Games title</strong></p><p><strong>Every last B5 RPG title</strong></p><p><strong>Airships, Torn Asunder, Pale Designs (All Bastion Press)</strong></p><p><strong>The Green Ronin Fiends books</strong></p><p><strong>The 2 extremely well done Malhavoc adventures</strong></p><p><strong>Midnight</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm sure I'm missing something that's on my cool list, but those are the ones that spring immediately to mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 1321857, member: 7394"] So I read through 7 pages of this list hoping that my stuff wouldn't turn up on the hated list over and over and over and was pleasantly surprised since most people are either voicing positive things about the Book of Exalted Deeds and the Oathbound campaign setting books or at least not putting them on their most hated list. There were one or two who didn't like them, but I can live with that. Heck, even if it was mostly negative comments, I could live with that too since it might give me some feedback on how to improve in the future. Concerning Scarred Lands, I own a bunch of it, I don't use much, but I actually like all the hardbacks. CCI and CCII have enough good ideas in them to justify the cost, in my opinion. R&R I & II also have some good stuff in there. Of course since I have yet to set a game in the Scarred Lands I have to seperate out a great deal of the flavor text and just go with the raw descriptions and mechanics that occasionally make it into a game, but there's some salvagable stuff there. As someone pointed out, there is also a great deal of broken stuff there too, but I have yet to see anyone make the perfect book. I won't name the ones that I truly regret. Or, more to the point, I don't regret buying them but I do hold them up as examples of what do not constitute good books. I would name them but I fear I would insult the people who worked on them and people on these boards would accuse me of heresy. There are a couple of [B]very popular[/B] books that I feel have a higher value in potential heat than gaming material. Having said that, I feel the same about one book I worked on, and I'm not saying which one it was, but I bet more than one person would be completely surprised by it, if they've heard of it at all. One of the irritating things is that there have been plenty of titles through the years that I've thought are crap, but then I've had the chance to meet the book's authors and end up liking them quite a bit, and then end up hating myself for not liking their work. I will list the books I'm happy with and would gladly purchase again. I have a pretty favorable opinion of most of the WotC books, but I'll list what I consider the creme de la creme. I'm leaving the titles I helped work on off my list of favorites since I'm obviously biased towards them (except for that one!) [B]Necropolis [/B](even though now I've bought it twice already since I own the original Mythus version). [B]Tome of Horrors Darwin's World 2E D&D 3.5 Core Fiend Folio Manual of the Planes D20 Modern D20 Modern Menace Manual Every last Necromancer Games title Every last B5 RPG title Airships, Torn Asunder, Pale Designs (All Bastion Press) The Green Ronin Fiends books The 2 extremely well done Malhavoc adventures Midnight[/B] I'm sure I'm missing something that's on my cool list, but those are the ones that spring immediately to mind. [/QUOTE]
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