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<blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6216357"><p>Best - a tie for a few</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> I agree third the 3e FR book. I was (and still am not) a FR fanboy, but I wanted to get it to see what the designers did to interweave the new rules into a setting. That part itself was meh, but the layout of the book was extremely good. I loved the 3 or 4 plot hooks at the end of each area/country write-up.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 3e PHB - it got be me back into D&D</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 1e DMG - still a lot of nice nuggets in there</li> </ul><p></p><p>Worst - a tie for a few</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 4e PHB - it was not the rules (the system itself is pretty good the times I played it), it was the layout and writing. It unfortunately was in competition with the Savage Worlds core book for what direction I was going to go. SW just screams "play me" - the 4e PHB is just a paperweight as it just is not a compelling book </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> FR Faiths and Pantheons - it cut/paste from the FRCS, maybe added a paragraph to each entry, then added a huge stat block. I thought I was getting a book on the FR religions, not an Epic NPC/monster manual. A counterpart that almost made the above list was Eberron's version of that book - exactly what I was looking for.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> There is a number of late 3e books that I picked up that I really have never read in detail (Complete Scoundrel, Dragon Magic, etc)</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amerigoV, post: 6216357"] Best - a tie for a few [list] [*] I agree third the 3e FR book. I was (and still am not) a FR fanboy, but I wanted to get it to see what the designers did to interweave the new rules into a setting. That part itself was meh, but the layout of the book was extremely good. I loved the 3 or 4 plot hooks at the end of each area/country write-up. [*] 3e PHB - it got be me back into D&D [*] 1e DMG - still a lot of nice nuggets in there [/list] Worst - a tie for a few [list] [*] 4e PHB - it was not the rules (the system itself is pretty good the times I played it), it was the layout and writing. It unfortunately was in competition with the Savage Worlds core book for what direction I was going to go. SW just screams "play me" - the 4e PHB is just a paperweight as it just is not a compelling book [*] FR Faiths and Pantheons - it cut/paste from the FRCS, maybe added a paragraph to each entry, then added a huge stat block. I thought I was getting a book on the FR religions, not an Epic NPC/monster manual. A counterpart that almost made the above list was Eberron's version of that book - exactly what I was looking for. [*] There is a number of late 3e books that I picked up that I really have never read in detail (Complete Scoundrel, Dragon Magic, etc) [/list] [/QUOTE]
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