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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Ranting" data-source="post: 3188130" data-attributes="member: 28906"><p>My wallet's voted no three times so far, and they still keep making them. </p><p></p><p>Honestly, I like the new statblock format, the knowledge check DCs, heck, even the sample adventure ideas are good, but the monsters themselves have been mostly lackluster, and the paragraphs of flavor text full of redundancies and space-fillers that should have been trimmed.</p><p></p><p>Regarding monsters with class levels...if it's a PHB class, then most DMs should be able to do this pretty easily, although I can still understand the idea of speeding things up. If it's a non-PHB class (Marshal? Ninja?) then there's a good chance that the gaming group either doesn't have access to the book, or the DM's disallowed it. If you're like me, and you're running another OGL d20 setting/variant rules set, then the whole write-up is worthless to you. I realize this is the exception to the rule, that WotC's core market are "kitchen sink" completists with access to all the goodies of all the books of 3.5, but it completely hedges out the fringes, who apparently don't make up enough of the consumer base to have their wallets' "No vote" matter in the slightest.</p><p></p><p>WotC's production schedule keeps rolling on, and when someone complains, we're told to just sit back and watch quality degrade. I love D&D. I love this hobby. And if all I am allowed to do to comment on it's quality is to boycott it, then how are things going to get better?</p><p></p><p>I don't want to start an argument, and I in no way intended to attack Psychic Warrior for his opinion, but I'm just exasperated at the whole issue and needed to vent...</p><p></p><p>Robert "Frustrated, Disappointed, and Confused Fanboy" Ranting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Ranting, post: 3188130, member: 28906"] My wallet's voted no three times so far, and they still keep making them. Honestly, I like the new statblock format, the knowledge check DCs, heck, even the sample adventure ideas are good, but the monsters themselves have been mostly lackluster, and the paragraphs of flavor text full of redundancies and space-fillers that should have been trimmed. Regarding monsters with class levels...if it's a PHB class, then most DMs should be able to do this pretty easily, although I can still understand the idea of speeding things up. If it's a non-PHB class (Marshal? Ninja?) then there's a good chance that the gaming group either doesn't have access to the book, or the DM's disallowed it. If you're like me, and you're running another OGL d20 setting/variant rules set, then the whole write-up is worthless to you. I realize this is the exception to the rule, that WotC's core market are "kitchen sink" completists with access to all the goodies of all the books of 3.5, but it completely hedges out the fringes, who apparently don't make up enough of the consumer base to have their wallets' "No vote" matter in the slightest. WotC's production schedule keeps rolling on, and when someone complains, we're told to just sit back and watch quality degrade. I love D&D. I love this hobby. And if all I am allowed to do to comment on it's quality is to boycott it, then how are things going to get better? I don't want to start an argument, and I in no way intended to attack Psychic Warrior for his opinion, but I'm just exasperated at the whole issue and needed to vent... Robert "Frustrated, Disappointed, and Confused Fanboy" Ranting [/QUOTE]
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