White Wolf vs. Mongoose

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Arcana Unearthed, for sure. My copy's already pre-orderered, in fact.

WarCraft, possibly. I'll need to flip through it once at the store before deciding.
 

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Maraxle said:

Actually, I have yet to have a single Grell, Mind Flayer, or Beholder appear in my campaign. I could see myself using Beholders, as I don't have anything against them, but I haven't had a need for them.

My campaigns tend to be very humanoid-heavy. I like providing mostly intelligent adversaries for my players' characters. Also, given the type of characters and their personal motivations, it just makes more sense for them. That's not to say that I am opposed to having them encounter the occasional mindless terror, but due to the nature of the campaign, which has two separate but converging underlying themes, both rather humanoid-centric, they are generally unnecessary. Of those mindless terrors, a good percentage are of my own design.

I also tend to keep a fair number of unique, or exceptionally rare, monsters in my world. For instance, there is a certain mountain pass near the southern part of the continent that is home to about a dozen apparitions (ghost-like, but with different stats/powers) due to a bloody ambush that took place there years ago. The characters have never had the misfortune of meeting any of these spirits, as they are too terrified to attempt to traverse the pass when there is a chance of not making it through before sunset. Of course, I plan to engineer a situation where they will have to make a tough choice, namely risk the pass or face a known danger, but I digress.

Basically, I am aiming for a particular atmosphere that I find the types of creatures found in CC & CC2 don't fit into for me. My campaign takes place in sort of a dark world, with more covert than overt terrors. I favor the creepy feelings and fear of the unknown over the in-your-face, Friday the 13th style of horror. I like to use baby-snatching cultists, rather than Bloody Flesh-eating Terrorbeasts from the Netherworld. I like to use ancient curses causing a town's water supply to go bad, rather than an ever-bleeding god at the bottom of the sea turning all of the fish into brain-sucking demon sharks.

Also, I take exception to your use of the word "argument" in this situation. What part of "I don't like the book because the creatures don't fit my campaign" is an argument? I'm simply stating why I don't use Scarred Lands materials. I'm not trying to convince you, or anyone else, to stop using Scarred Lands materials. I think it's great that you've found a setting that you enjoy. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, actually. I'm just fielding the questions and attempting to clarify my answers.
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Fine and I respect that. I was just curious since I required clarification. I too tend to use more often than not, humaniod villians, but I have my share of monsters. (Obviously my campaign though is very Scarred Lands centered). I will admit that the lack of other humaniods might preclude the use of Creature Collection. (Even though Slitheren/Ratmen are pretty neat, but I will agree not a new concept) Overall thought I felt there was some creepiness with Dark Womb. (Managed to talk a poster to use that and a Deepspawn with some interesting results let me tell you. He still thanks me.) But regardless I appreciate the clarification. If I came off harsh it's not entirely intentional...but also understand while I can be defensive of what I consider my favorite setting, I believe it's mostly because people don't understand it that well at times. I like to think I do. I will apologize of you felt "attacked". But understand my POV as well. (You won't believe the number of times I've say "Geez Sacred Journey IS A great spell and not broken!") kinds of stuff. But regardless, you have your own homebrew. I got the Scarred Lands. Think we can leave it at that. Btw Kadum isn't a god. He just plays an overtly enthusiatic Cthulu. ;) But regardless, if you don't like the Blood Sea, that's your call. (Just probably a guess but you didn't play much Dragonlance either huh?) In any event no more sniping but we'll just I can deal with you not like stuff. Mostly.

psionitic, from the previews, Warcraft RPG should be good.

Ian, can't believe you said that about Tome of Horrors. An Ennie nominated book! (Deservedly so)
 
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Nightfall, I don't suppose I could persuade you to trim your quotations and your sig?

I'd prefer to actually read what you have to say instead of skipping over your posts in frustration.

Wulf
 

Wulf Ratbane said:
Nightfall, I don't suppose I could persuade you to trim your quotations and your sig?

I'd prefer to actually read what you have to say instead of skipping over your posts in frustration.
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I'll second this request, Nightfall. I don't mean to be rude, but your sig is so long that it is a tad annoying. I don't want to turn off sigs, because I generally don't mind (and even enjoy) reading them. But yours is roughly half a screen in length.

edited to turn off sig!
 
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Make that three requests! That thing's just completely out of hand. Three complete song verses (from two different songs!) plus a quote? Yeesh. Next someone will quote the first volume of the Encyclopedia Brittannica. :)
 




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