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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6929022" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Yeah, "Fifth Edition Foes" is a good one. And "Tome of Beasts" is causing me a rather nice problem - I gave the 5e MM a 5-star review, and ToB is <em>better</em> so I'm a bit stuck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Those are the only two 5e third-party books I have, but I'm not averse to getting others. But what I learned from 3e is that it pays to be <em>very</em> selective - there are some great works out there, but there's also a lot of dross, so choose wisely! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>(On the other hand, I'm paying virtually no attention to DM's Guild - since Drive Thru lost my credit card details a year ago, they won't be getting my business unless I just happen to see something I simply have to have. And given that I'm therefore barely looking, that is unlikely. But any solution to the "problem" of a small release schedule that includes "look at DM's Guild" is a non-starter for me.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6929022, member: 22424"] Yeah, "Fifth Edition Foes" is a good one. And "Tome of Beasts" is causing me a rather nice problem - I gave the 5e MM a 5-star review, and ToB is [i]better[/i] so I'm a bit stuck. :) Those are the only two 5e third-party books I have, but I'm not averse to getting others. But what I learned from 3e is that it pays to be [i]very[/i] selective - there are some great works out there, but there's also a lot of dross, so choose wisely! :) (On the other hand, I'm paying virtually no attention to DM's Guild - since Drive Thru lost my credit card details a year ago, they won't be getting my business unless I just happen to see something I simply have to have. And given that I'm therefore barely looking, that is unlikely. But any solution to the "problem" of a small release schedule that includes "look at DM's Guild" is a non-starter for me.) [/QUOTE]
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