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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 3644107" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>Mostly downhill, with the exception of Star Wars Saga Edition- its MUCH better than its predecessors, and if d20 continues to be streamlined in this direction, I might start running d20-based stuff again. I've played a little SW Saga, and it plays pretty well, although I still prefer using Savage Worlds for Star Wars.</p><p></p><p>As for the D&D side, its been a spiral of mediocre products IMO. I don't buy the Eberron stuff, so I can't speak for that, but the rules-based stuff has been lackluster. PHB2, and the second set of completes added more bloat to an already bloated system, not to mention the power level for every subsequent book seems to be escalating. Having options is a good thing, but too many options that get in the way of the game is a bad thing. Spell Compendium and Magic Item Compendium were good ideas and solid products, but most of the content of the books were taken from previous sources. And then there is the outright crap- like Expedition to Undermountain- a product that seems unfinished, and the new adventures like Barrow of the Forgotten King which are absolutely linear overpriced dungeon crawls with almost no plot to them. So I've pretty much quit buying WotC stuff- I don't need more rules, and the themes of their new books just don't interest me (like the Book of Nine Swords). On the plus side, its freed up a lot more money for Warhammer FRP2, Savage Worlds stuff, nWoD, and my Warmachine/Hordes interests. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 3644107, member: 317"] Mostly downhill, with the exception of Star Wars Saga Edition- its MUCH better than its predecessors, and if d20 continues to be streamlined in this direction, I might start running d20-based stuff again. I've played a little SW Saga, and it plays pretty well, although I still prefer using Savage Worlds for Star Wars. As for the D&D side, its been a spiral of mediocre products IMO. I don't buy the Eberron stuff, so I can't speak for that, but the rules-based stuff has been lackluster. PHB2, and the second set of completes added more bloat to an already bloated system, not to mention the power level for every subsequent book seems to be escalating. Having options is a good thing, but too many options that get in the way of the game is a bad thing. Spell Compendium and Magic Item Compendium were good ideas and solid products, but most of the content of the books were taken from previous sources. And then there is the outright crap- like Expedition to Undermountain- a product that seems unfinished, and the new adventures like Barrow of the Forgotten King which are absolutely linear overpriced dungeon crawls with almost no plot to them. So I've pretty much quit buying WotC stuff- I don't need more rules, and the themes of their new books just don't interest me (like the Book of Nine Swords). On the plus side, its freed up a lot more money for Warhammer FRP2, Savage Worlds stuff, nWoD, and my Warmachine/Hordes interests. :D [/QUOTE]
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