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<blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 2168266" data-attributes="member: 10825"><p>My three biggest regrets are the Faithful and the Forsaken, the Book of Exalted Deeds and Champions of Darkness. </p><p></p><p>The Faithful and the Forsaken took one of the more interesting aspects of the Scarred Lands and totally trashed it, transforming the not quite so hackneyed forsaken elves into overly hackneyed high elves with a garbage history and more than a few loop-holes and broken mechanics. It's easily the lowest point of the setting for me, in part for my love of the settings forsaken elves, in part because it really is just a poorly done book. </p><p></p><p>Then the Book of Exalted Deeds ranks up there for its extremely shallow and superficial take on alignment. The morality was cartoonish, inoffensive and not really the focus of the book. It focused too much on new spells, feats, stats for NPC's I'll never use and prestige classes based on those NPC's I'll never use. I guess it's not the worst book; just not for me. </p><p></p><p>As for Champions of Darkness, it's similar to the Book of Exalted Deeds, on the flip side. It's a book of anti-heroes, to a degree, and boy is it a stinker. It dilutes the feel of the Ravenloft setting and misses the theme of a number of the settings Domains. It has a number of badly written NPC's with missing stat blocks, to boot, and a number of poorly conceived, broken prestige classes and feats. It also has introduces each chapter with fiction. Really. Bad. Fiction. </p><p></p><p>Of course, I have no one to blame but myself for Champions of Darkness; I knew it was bad before I picked it up. However, it detailed an organization that I was looking for some information on. Thus why I bought it. It turns out that information only took up about half a page. </p><p></p><p>I have a few other books I'm 'meh' on, but they've either proved useful in some fashion or they weren't picked up at full price. Heck, had I picked up the Faithful and the Forsaken and the Book of Exalted Deeds under half the cover price, I probably wouldn't have much issue with them. </p><p></p><p>Champions of Darkness is the one book that I don't think anyone should buy. Ever. Meh, meh, meh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickstergod, post: 2168266, member: 10825"] My three biggest regrets are the Faithful and the Forsaken, the Book of Exalted Deeds and Champions of Darkness. The Faithful and the Forsaken took one of the more interesting aspects of the Scarred Lands and totally trashed it, transforming the not quite so hackneyed forsaken elves into overly hackneyed high elves with a garbage history and more than a few loop-holes and broken mechanics. It's easily the lowest point of the setting for me, in part for my love of the settings forsaken elves, in part because it really is just a poorly done book. Then the Book of Exalted Deeds ranks up there for its extremely shallow and superficial take on alignment. The morality was cartoonish, inoffensive and not really the focus of the book. It focused too much on new spells, feats, stats for NPC's I'll never use and prestige classes based on those NPC's I'll never use. I guess it's not the worst book; just not for me. As for Champions of Darkness, it's similar to the Book of Exalted Deeds, on the flip side. It's a book of anti-heroes, to a degree, and boy is it a stinker. It dilutes the feel of the Ravenloft setting and misses the theme of a number of the settings Domains. It has a number of badly written NPC's with missing stat blocks, to boot, and a number of poorly conceived, broken prestige classes and feats. It also has introduces each chapter with fiction. Really. Bad. Fiction. Of course, I have no one to blame but myself for Champions of Darkness; I knew it was bad before I picked it up. However, it detailed an organization that I was looking for some information on. Thus why I bought it. It turns out that information only took up about half a page. I have a few other books I'm 'meh' on, but they've either proved useful in some fashion or they weren't picked up at full price. Heck, had I picked up the Faithful and the Forsaken and the Book of Exalted Deeds under half the cover price, I probably wouldn't have much issue with them. Champions of Darkness is the one book that I don't think anyone should buy. Ever. Meh, meh, meh. [/QUOTE]
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