What should my next WotC purchase be?

Which WotC Book should I buy?

  • Libris Mortis

    Votes: 68 28.6%
  • Frostburn

    Votes: 19 8.0%
  • Races of Stone

    Votes: 17 7.1%
  • Monster Manuel 3

    Votes: 72 30.3%
  • Buy lots of D&D/Star Wars Mini Pack

    Votes: 23 9.7%
  • Forget WotC, you should buy... [Insert Below]

    Votes: 39 16.4%

  • Poll closed .

Remathilis

Legend
Ok, I'm low of funds, run a homebrew game (which is pretty close to core rules with hints of FR, Eberron, and DL to taste) and must make a choice of which of the above WotC books should I be purchasing...

Your suggestions?
 

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Kinda depends...

What kind of homebrew? Do you need monsters? PC options? More spells and items? What is the setting like?
 




I agree, Frostburn is probably the best WOTC I've seen in a while. MM3? It's good, but it doesn't seem to fill any holes are do anything that I think anyone "has" to have. Besides, it's getting on to winter now. Time for those ice and snow themes in your games.
 

Of the choices, Frostburn is probably the best. However, the content is still rather situational, even though lots of the mechanical options could be used anywhere.

MM3 was okay. If you like Oozes, Abberations, and Swarms, then the rating goes up.
 

Get Libris Mortis. I picked it up yesterday at my FLGS, and while I liked both MM III and Frostburn a lot, Libris Mortis is by far the best of the three. Lots of good fluff about undead, the condition of undeath, and their mental outlook, as well as how to run undead focused campaigns. The spells look really nasty, and the PrCs, while not something I usually care much about, seem like interesting concepts. There are also racial advancements ala Savage Species for several types of undead, and thoughts for using undead as PCs. There are also some cool ideas for undead craving life force, and what happens to their psychological state when they are starved of it.

There is a section about deities of the undead in the book, as well as undead and how they fit into other socieities. There is an interesting section on equipment and items geared towards undead, but by far the biggest part of the book is for new undead beasties. Most of the new undead types seem pretty cool, and I could definitely see myself using in a darker sort of campaign (which is what I love to run). The last part of the book presents half a dozen adventure locations with undead, the sort you can drop into an exisiting campaign (such as the House on the Hill, the Mortuary, and the Ghoul Colony). Very cool stuff. For me, this book is MUCH more useful than the Draconomicon since I tend to use undead about 100 times more often than dragons. This book, Frostburn and MM III have really impressed me- WotC might be back on the path to some really good supplements again.
 

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