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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minicol" data-source="post: 3095005" data-attributes="member: 17308">So the question is, which of the "Races of" sourcebooks are worth buying? Most bang for thier buck, most useful overall.Cheers!I'd say : NONE of them. Unless you are a mad collector like me. I bought every wizards product since ... too many years ... and they truly are some of the worse.They are full of useless information : "ya know, humans love dice" "ya know, dwarves love beer". But you do not develop any kind of empathy for these races. In every case, they introduce new races, which look ugly and seem to have an enormous potential for abusing the balance of power in your games. The pretense for some of them existing is rather thin, and unconvincing. Spellscales, Illumians ...They also contradict a lot of previously published information, such as replacing the whole dwarven Pantheon we've known for years, by ... roughly the same thing, but with different names. How original. So the fluff is pretty bad. How is the crunch : well, there is almost none.In the end, I voted for Races of the Dragon, since there are the rules inside to play a sneaky, dirty, vicious little kobold. "We are going to kill them, my precious, oh yes, we are SO going to kill them". At least you can salvage that, but that is not much.That may sound harsh, but I really have no use for them in any of my games, if you are short on money, don't waste it on these.</blockquote>