World of Warcraft - what books?

[Thanee]

Bought the fairly new WoW RPG book yesterday and now I would like to know, which of the old books would make sense to get?

The Manual of Monsters sounds quite useful, using the MM certainly removes a bit from the WoW flavor.

Any of those particulary recommendable?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Voadam]

MoM and lands of conflict are the only two I own. MoM has a lot of undead templates and some specific WoW demons and variants of standard critters as well as their unique humanoids (nagas, pandaren, various trolls, razormanes, etc.) and it is all 3.5. There is a bit of duplication with the MM (some gnoll variants, a few critters that are only slightly different, etc.) and some are outdated by 2.0 WoWRPG (jungle troll) but it is a good 3.5 monster book and has lists of creatures from other SSS monster books and the MM that they feel are WoW appropriate. Lands of Conflict is mostly a flavor and setting book with not as much crunch stuff. I don't know how it meshes or conflicts or overlaps with the new corebook.

 

[Psion]

Magic and Mayhem is one of my favorites, though the new book basically supplants the technology section.

 

[Graf]

With the exception of the monster book which like (all monsterbooks) had good and bad stuff everything in the last edition of the Warcraft Pen and Paper games was pretty poor. Good art, a few good ideas, but generally the level of lower quality 3rd party DnD material. Like the terrible Diablo rules they put out after D2 hit it big.
(I don’t know much about magic and mayhem book really we’d given up by then)

Some blizzard folks posted at some point on the boards saying that they played DnD they were up on the scene and they wanted WoW to be a strong product but ultimately I expect that deadline issues were probably a barrier. I recall liking some ideas but being very unimpressed with the handling of mechanics and so forth.

Blizzard has a tremendous stream of cash flooding into the company now so the WoW book –may- be better but I would definitely focus on getting newer supplements that come out to support the 2nd edition of the game instead of burning money on the older stuff.

 

[Thanee]

Thanks!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Got the Manual of Monsters and Lands of Conflict now, which both seem like a good idea (monster book is necessary pretty much, altho I suspect there will be a new one eventually, since it's already out of print; and sourcebooks with world descriptions can also never hurt ).

There is a new edition of Magic and Mayhem announced, so it probably makes sense to wait for that one, since it seems more of a 'crunch' book.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Dragonhelm]

There is a new edition of Magic and Mayhem announced, so it probably makes sense to wait for that one, since it seems more of a 'crunch' book.

I believe that's More Magic & Mayhem. My understanding is that it's not a new edition of the old book, it's a new book.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I believe that's More Magic & Mayhem. My understanding is that it's not a new edition of the old book, it's a new book.

I updates much of the old Magic and Mayhem and adds new material as well.