Mercule
Adventurer
Well, about six months ago, I came to the conclusion that may next D&D game would probably consist of only the PHB, DMG, MM, and UA. This morning, I started thinking my next fantasy game would be Hero, not d20.
D&D has just gotten to the point were there are too many options to consider. Using only WotC books, I still have to pare down the material to make it consumable by the players. A chunk of the group wouldn't even know where to begin if I laid everything out in front of them. In fact, even the 15 year vets in my group are intimidated by the number of books I can whip out for truly "open" character creation -- PHB, only, at that point.
Any purchases I make at this point are for the couple of gems that might be in the book. The default assumption is that each feat, PrC, spell, etc. will not be permitted. That also means that, now that the "Complete" books have run to completion (no pun intended), I'll only be picking up books that deal with a subject I think I'll use heavily. My next likely purchase is the DMG II. Sandstorm is a "thumb-through, then decide" as I know my game will have some desert scenes. Otherwise, it's just Dungeon on the d20 front -- man, I wish they'd put out another "classic" module, like Ravenloft, ToEE, etc.
It looks like I'm going to be shifting toward picking up the new WoD books, now. I'm kinda stoked by the reboot and wouldn't mind getting the "set" for future use. Even Werewolf has me dying to give it a try -- and I wouldn't have touched the original. I may pick up d20 Modern and bits of that line, too.
D&D has just gotten to the point were there are too many options to consider. Using only WotC books, I still have to pare down the material to make it consumable by the players. A chunk of the group wouldn't even know where to begin if I laid everything out in front of them. In fact, even the 15 year vets in my group are intimidated by the number of books I can whip out for truly "open" character creation -- PHB, only, at that point.
Any purchases I make at this point are for the couple of gems that might be in the book. The default assumption is that each feat, PrC, spell, etc. will not be permitted. That also means that, now that the "Complete" books have run to completion (no pun intended), I'll only be picking up books that deal with a subject I think I'll use heavily. My next likely purchase is the DMG II. Sandstorm is a "thumb-through, then decide" as I know my game will have some desert scenes. Otherwise, it's just Dungeon on the d20 front -- man, I wish they'd put out another "classic" module, like Ravenloft, ToEE, etc.
It looks like I'm going to be shifting toward picking up the new WoD books, now. I'm kinda stoked by the reboot and wouldn't mind getting the "set" for future use. Even Werewolf has me dying to give it a try -- and I wouldn't have touched the original. I may pick up d20 Modern and bits of that line, too.
