Which of the following WotC "options" have you used in your campaign?

[Agius_Mage]

Our campaign is a bit off the wall. I think, in a party of about 10 people, we have perhaps 3 who are straight-up base races. I have a custom-designed template, but my friends have templates and alternate races. One of our PCs was playing an Invisible Stalker monster class (until he died last session for the 3rd time. That got him a little frustrated. ). So far we've fought at least one enemy with a Vile template (a Currupted Carrion Crawler), but I am sure we'll see more. We used Epic stuff last campaign (my Seer had something like 550 power points by the end) and we will use it this campaign, too.

I wouldn't say we're all ubermunchkins, but most of us min/max to a significant degree, several of us really get into role-playing, and we really enjoy the campaign.

 

[Olive]

Used Vile a fair bit, and will use far more. Demon/Devil worship is now a big part of my campaign.

I've got SS, and I've used one template from it. Good book, but not really my players cup of tea.

As for epic, well they're 5th level right now, so maybe in a couple of years!

 

[Norfleet]

BoVD's idea of vile is almost cute and humorous. I acquired a copy, read through it, and wondered, "Okay, these are some pretty interesting spells, rules, and goodies, but where's the actual vileness?". I've seen much, much worse, in person. This book is a fairly nice start, though, and I'd certainly use it.

Haven't acquired SS yet. ELH's epic levels seem to be pretty overboard, in my opinion, and seeing as I've traditionally attempted to kill the players with gusto starting from L10, I've frankly never had a party SURVIVE that long.

 

[HellHound]

As of yesterday, all of them.

Used VILE to make evil more evil. Vile damage and all that tasty evilness to make the villains in my epic heroic games that much more detestable.

Used SAVAGE yesterday with the introduction of a level 2 ghoul dwarf to our campaign... new player, mid-adventure, needed to add a character to the party while in the depths of Jzadirune at the time.

Used some of the lightest-weight EPIC beasties in my level 18 Oathbound game (same one that I used the VILE stuff in)

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

In the game i play in, some of the Pc's and NPC"s are epic level and we have some Non-standard races. Haven't had a chance to dip into the vileness yet though.

 

[dren]

I voted for none of the above.

SS: only two or three of the monster classes really impressed me. The rest seem blah. If one of my players buys the book I'll let them play something.

ELH: Unimpressed. Besides, I have a homebrew uber-game style that I prefer to use.

Vile: Nothing too special, not enough hooks to get me to buy the book. I'm already a sick, twisted DM that enjoys torturing players, this thing didn't teach me anything new.

 

[bwgwl]

i haven't used any of the three yet, but i own the ELH and SS.

i doubt i'll ever run or play in an Epic campaign, but i don't have anything against WOTC's take on Epic characters.

i don't like the idea of monster classes in SS, but there's other stuff in the book that i do like i might incorporate the next time i DM.

i have zero interest in BoVD. i've read through a friend's copy and decided i don't want it.

 

[Grazzt]

I own all three books (BoVD, SS, and ELH).

Of those, the BoVD has been used a bit here and there, but I've been using evilness and vileness worse than the BoVD gave us for many years now (dating back to 1e as a matter of fact) .

SS will never see the light of day in my current campaign (and likely none of my future campaigns either). I greatly dislike the idea of monster classes.

ELH might, might, get brushed across at some point in the future, just have to wait and see. Neither I nor my players really have the desire to play "world-crushing" PCs/NPCs of the caliber that ELH generates...at least at the moment anyway.

So- of the three, BoVD seems like it will get the most use for me. It does have some interesting ways of handling things and vile damage is a fairly cool idea.

 

[Nifft]

All three, though the players haven't met anything Epic yet, and the Savage stuff is mostly the templates that I throw on evil monsters.

-- Nifft

 

[Goobermunch]

Currently playing a wyrmling silver dragon/sorceror. Mostly based on Savage with a few house rules to make the character play nice with the party (who think I'm a monk/sorceror).

Haven't encountered any vileness (yet!).

Don't have the attention span for epic. It takes a long time to get to 21st level.

--G