Mystery Man
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It's "good". The amount of errors in the monster stat blocks were disappointing.
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What do you think of Libris Mortis (Undead 3.5 DND book)?
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DragonLancer
Hero
Option 2.
Its a good book but not up to par with the Draconomicon, which is a real shame. Its like half the size, and could have done with the level of info and detail that the Draconomicon gave to Dragons.
I would suggest picking it up, as it does add some nice new options for Undead. Though its also a shame that the Unholy Toughness (MM3 undead trait) didn't appear in there.
Its a good book but not up to par with the Draconomicon, which is a real shame. Its like half the size, and could have done with the level of info and detail that the Draconomicon gave to Dragons.
I would suggest picking it up, as it does add some nice new options for Undead. Though its also a shame that the Unholy Toughness (MM3 undead trait) didn't appear in there.
Shemeska
Adventurer
It falls somewhere between good and ok for me.
My peeves about it:
1) Undead elementals - lame lame lame lame concept. Oh, and it's a lame concept. However the undead elementals are almost exactly the same idea with a different background, as the negative touched quasielementals of 2nd ed/Planescape. And this leads into my next peeve.
2) Not a single book cited in the first few pages of LM as inspiration, or having used concepts originally created by other authors in earlier books. Not a single sodding one. Visages? Created in 'Dead Gods'? Apparently not because LM claims them as its own... That's somewhere between tacky and callous in my book...
3) Orcus was in there, yes... but the detail was a complete reprint from an earlier book. And was that book cited? Of course not...
My likes:
1) Morning Glory, or whatever her name is, is just a very cool and nifty concept for a non traditional death deity.
2) Art. More Steve Prescott art makes me a very happy 'loth
3) Visages (even if the art for them stank) and other previous critters that hadn't before been brought into 3.x
My peeves about it:
1) Undead elementals - lame lame lame lame concept. Oh, and it's a lame concept. However the undead elementals are almost exactly the same idea with a different background, as the negative touched quasielementals of 2nd ed/Planescape. And this leads into my next peeve.
2) Not a single book cited in the first few pages of LM as inspiration, or having used concepts originally created by other authors in earlier books. Not a single sodding one. Visages? Created in 'Dead Gods'? Apparently not because LM claims them as its own... That's somewhere between tacky and callous in my book...
3) Orcus was in there, yes... but the detail was a complete reprint from an earlier book. And was that book cited? Of course not...
My likes:
1) Morning Glory, or whatever her name is, is just a very cool and nifty concept for a non traditional death deity.
2) Art. More Steve Prescott art makes me a very happy 'loth
3) Visages (even if the art for them stank) and other previous critters that hadn't before been brought into 3.x
Ankh-Morpork Guard
First Post
A week ago, I would have just said it was 'Good'. But in my session last week, I ran an encounter with an Angel of Decay.
I knew it was going to be great the second I'd finished reading that description under the stat block. The PCs were freaked out, and reallly looked disgusted. They finally beat it, but not after looking ill through the whole fight and attempting to run away at least three times.
I knew it was going to be great the second I'd finished reading that description under the stat block. The PCs were freaked out, and reallly looked disgusted. They finally beat it, but not after looking ill through the whole fight and attempting to run away at least three times.
jerichothebard
First Post
I can't Wait to throw an undead swarm of rats and a swarm-shifter at my party! Very cool stuff in this book.
I do agree that the stat-block errors were unfortunate, but, then again, who cares? Ultimately, the players can't possibly tell, and the flavor is still there... That's what's important to me.
jtb
I do agree that the stat-block errors were unfortunate, but, then again, who cares? Ultimately, the players can't possibly tell, and the flavor is still there... That's what's important to me.
jtb
Varianor Abroad
Explorer
I don't have the Draconomicon to hold this up to, but it's a separate work so I think this deserves a fair shake on its own merits. I found it to be quite good overall. I'm quite willing to overlook a few errors here and there if something is cool, imaginitive and useful. This fits all those categories. I like undead and use them a lot. So this book fits quite well into my games. Having a number of pre-statted undead is also an excellent resource.
Mind you, I don't use too many Prestige Classes to begin with, but I found enough good ideas in that chapter to pick out for what I use that even that was useful. Evening Glory is an excellent religion. It's going into my AU game somehow, even if there is no goddess behind it. The bleakborn is a particularly cool monster as are revived fossils and other bits of good things.
Incidentally, as to the resources list, Andy Collins advised that it was an oversite in this post on his message boards: http://p198.ezboard.com/fgameschat19968frm12.showMessage?topicID=555.topic (Apologies for not formatting it into a link. I get a weird bug from my browser due to our work network hiccupping at the Links button.)
Mind you, I don't use too many Prestige Classes to begin with, but I found enough good ideas in that chapter to pick out for what I use that even that was useful. Evening Glory is an excellent religion. It's going into my AU game somehow, even if there is no goddess behind it. The bleakborn is a particularly cool monster as are revived fossils and other bits of good things.
Incidentally, as to the resources list, Andy Collins advised that it was an oversite in this post on his message boards: http://p198.ezboard.com/fgameschat19968frm12.showMessage?topicID=555.topic (Apologies for not formatting it into a link. I get a weird bug from my browser due to our work network hiccupping at the Links button.)
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