BlightCrawler
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TalonComics said:
$40 for only 160 pages?!
Jeez, why does my rear suddenly feel sore.
[WOTC] January to May 2003 Release Schedule
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$40 for only 160 pages?!
Jeez, why does my rear suddenly feel sore.
Sholari
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I'm getting progressively more disatisfied by the stuff that Wizard of the Coast puts out. I need only so many monsters, classes, and weapons, etc. The only thing I've bought in the last year from WOTC is Silver Marches, which is well done... but that's about it. I honestly think as Hasbro has taken more of the management of WOTC, they are repeating a lot of the same mistakes as TSR in its dying days. Thank goodness for OGL.
TheAuldGrump
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Just about the same price per page as the class splat books, with a snazzy hard cover! More seriously, Lucasfilms gets a cut on every copy sold. Not just the RPG either, you should have heard the novel writers' when the announcement came that all royalties were going to Lucasfilms instead of them...
The Auld Grump (Does anyone remember the FIRST Star Trek Roleplaying game from the 1970s, before FASA came out with a legal one?)
Tyrion Alb
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Re: Re: [WOTC] January to May 2003 Release Schedule
No. That information is incorrect. The price for this is "only" $29.95, or $20.97 at some discount bookstores
BlightCrawler said:
No. That information is incorrect. The price for this is "only" $29.95, or $20.97 at some discount bookstores
John Crichton
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who needs to eat anyway?
* mumble grumble *
I know I'll be buying just about everything on that list unless I hear from credible sources that they are not worth it. I'm such a tool for Official D&D Products like the Arms & Equipment Guide. I used my 2e version probably just as much as my PHB. That is a definite buy for me. The only iffy one is the FF as I don't have an overwhelming need for it right now but I can see buying it when money permits....
* grrrrr *
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* mumble grumble *
I know I'll be buying just about everything on that list unless I hear from credible sources that they are not worth it. I'm such a tool for Official D&D Products like the Arms & Equipment Guide. I used my 2e version probably just as much as my PHB. That is a definite buy for me. The only iffy one is the FF as I don't have an overwhelming need for it right now but I can see buying it when money permits....
* grrrrr *
:: edited just cuz ::
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I hope the A&E Guide is better than the one by Bastion Press. That book had no flavor, just a bunch of new power ups.
I'm looking forward to Kenzer's Arms & Equipment guide more. It's going to be putting everything into more of a cultural context and should be great material both for Kalamar and for cannibalizing into a homebrew.
I'm looking forward to Kenzer's Arms & Equipment guide more. It's going to be putting everything into more of a cultural context and should be great material both for Kalamar and for cannibalizing into a homebrew.
Sholari said:
Which mistakes are those? Wotc's strategy seems relativly conservative from my perspective. As oppossed to indulging in the BS 'creative content' or 'fluff' of earlier editions in the hope's of satisfying a small niche within an already small niche, they are creating small, one-volume sets of rules targeted towards specific, tangible hard-core gamers, charging them a viable price, and generally remaining remarkebly consistent. None of that could be said of the haphazard policies of TSR.
Agnostic Paladin
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kenjib, it's questionable whether Kenzer's book will ever see print; Wizards has been sitting on the approval for months now; people are starting to speculate that there's some possible overlap with WotC's own A&E and possibly even the RPHB and that they're simply abusing their approval power at this point.
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