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This is a great place to get information considering new stuff coming down the RPG pipe ..
With that said I have to talk about the New Adventurer's Vault from WOTC.
This Book , Which I ERRRRR... have seen....And if you ask me...
Is filled with new weapons , tables of mounts, and a bunch of stuff like that for the AD&D 4th edition game.
In my humble and not so humble opinion it is 100% packed with things that SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A $35 players book.
Having said that though and excepting that for all intents that is a dog that just does not hunt int today's R.P.G. fun house, the book is pretty useful.
I mean there are hundreds of magic items.. a bunch of new "Master Work" Armors ( I would like to have seen more "real" versions of historic armor types.. What if my native island warriors need to wear woven armor?)
Mounts .. every thing from griffons to elephants to Giant ants..
and a whole bunch of nifty trinkets to beg your Gm ahem.. Dm for.
The coolest thing for my money in teh book is the Alchemy .. hich seems to work like the rituals out of the PHB..
When I err mean if I run a 4th eddtion campaighn..I would like to work them both Rituals and Alchemy into the game in more than the glad hannded way they are treated in the books.
My one complaint is this.
There are literally volumes dedicated to weapons alone over the years.. and more volumes dedicated to armor.
As for magic intems there was a 4 volume encyclopedia magica a few years ago that covered alot of ground and then some.
So this book adds some things from all those catagories, tosses in some new feats , skills for mounts, but it realy is just a skim. I can see more of these $35 books in the future. I own (yes own) a book called the Encyclopedia of medevil weapons and castles that was put out a long time ago by by paladium books you can still find all the same info in the books listed on the paladium store page if you realy want a weapons suplement do yourself a favor .. buy them .. they are very acurate, complete and are very user frinedly. (yes the old book had all the midevil stuff from those 4 books packed into one huge book NICE)
As for mounts and companion animlas.. It is nice stuff really it is but I ask,why not have rules for making a companion or a mount out of any non smart monster in the MM you just spent $35 on?
As For the Forgotten realms book.. I have seen it .. and I have read parts but not enough to give me the right to talk about it here, Yet..
I do know how ever there be Drow in there... and a new Warlock pact called "dark pact" to go along with the drow.. that ought to be enough to get a bunch of dark elf fans to buy teh book.
This is a great place to get information considering new stuff coming down the RPG pipe ..
With that said I have to talk about the New Adventurer's Vault from WOTC.
This Book , Which I ERRRRR... have seen....And if you ask me...
Is filled with new weapons , tables of mounts, and a bunch of stuff like that for the AD&D 4th edition game.
In my humble and not so humble opinion it is 100% packed with things that SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A $35 players book.
Having said that though and excepting that for all intents that is a dog that just does not hunt int today's R.P.G. fun house, the book is pretty useful.
I mean there are hundreds of magic items.. a bunch of new "Master Work" Armors ( I would like to have seen more "real" versions of historic armor types.. What if my native island warriors need to wear woven armor?)
Mounts .. every thing from griffons to elephants to Giant ants..
and a whole bunch of nifty trinkets to beg your Gm ahem.. Dm for.
The coolest thing for my money in teh book is the Alchemy .. hich seems to work like the rituals out of the PHB..
When I err mean if I run a 4th eddtion campaighn..I would like to work them both Rituals and Alchemy into the game in more than the glad hannded way they are treated in the books.
My one complaint is this.
There are literally volumes dedicated to weapons alone over the years.. and more volumes dedicated to armor.
As for magic intems there was a 4 volume encyclopedia magica a few years ago that covered alot of ground and then some.
So this book adds some things from all those catagories, tosses in some new feats , skills for mounts, but it realy is just a skim. I can see more of these $35 books in the future. I own (yes own) a book called the Encyclopedia of medevil weapons and castles that was put out a long time ago by by paladium books you can still find all the same info in the books listed on the paladium store page if you realy want a weapons suplement do yourself a favor .. buy them .. they are very acurate, complete and are very user frinedly. (yes the old book had all the midevil stuff from those 4 books packed into one huge book NICE)
As for mounts and companion animlas.. It is nice stuff really it is but I ask,why not have rules for making a companion or a mount out of any non smart monster in the MM you just spent $35 on?
As For the Forgotten realms book.. I have seen it .. and I have read parts but not enough to give me the right to talk about it here, Yet..
I do know how ever there be Drow in there... and a new Warlock pact called "dark pact" to go along with the drow.. that ought to be enough to get a bunch of dark elf fans to buy teh book.
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