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<blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3586509" data-attributes="member: 1154">Well... I've gotta say that I'm honestly surprised by how many people stick with just the core 3. I tend to chalk that up to ambiguity and/or a difference in terms... I don't really know how else to explain it better, myself. I just consider a lot of other books to be core, in that I'd have to specifically disallow them based on my campaign's premise, because otherwise I just assume that they're there regardless.Still, lots of interesting results... In particular I'm surprised that the Magic Item Compendium is doing so well considering how recently released it is. I expected the classic complete books to be doing the best, although in retrospect I'm not surprised that the monster manuals are beating them... Am surprised that the MIC is, though. I'm also surprised by how poorly (relative) the Spell Compendium is doing, since a lot of people seem to worship the paper it's printed on.Ironically, the biggest reason I left out the PHB 2 is because I use it so much-- while scanning my bookshelf for other things I left out, it wasn't up there! It almost never is, and it's probably the single most used book in my group after the PHB. I feel horrible for forgetting that option. Along the same lines, I probably should have included the DMG 2, which was another oversight on my part. Personally I don't own it, though.As for the core 3 only, I definitely should have included an option for that. Oh well, live and learn.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asmor, post: 3586509, member: 1154"] Well... I've gotta say that I'm honestly surprised by how many people stick with just the core 3. I tend to chalk that up to ambiguity and/or a difference in terms... I don't really know how else to explain it better, myself. I just consider a lot of other books to be core, in that I'd have to specifically disallow them based on my campaign's premise, because otherwise I just assume that they're there regardless. Still, lots of interesting results... In particular I'm surprised that the Magic Item Compendium is doing so well considering how recently released it is. I expected the classic complete books to be doing the best, although in retrospect I'm not surprised that the monster manuals are beating them... Am surprised that the MIC is, though. I'm also surprised by how poorly (relative) the Spell Compendium is doing, since a lot of people seem to worship the paper it's printed on. Ironically, the biggest reason I left out the PHB 2 is because I use it so much-- while scanning my bookshelf for other things I left out, it wasn't up there! It almost never is, and it's probably the single most used book in my group after the PHB. I feel horrible for forgetting that option. Along the same lines, I probably should have included the DMG 2, which was another oversight on my part. Personally I don't own it, though. As for the core 3 only, I definitely should have included an option for that. Oh well, live and learn. [/QUOTE]

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