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In D&D 3.x, until the release of the rules/magic item/spell compendiums there really were no go to resources. The rule you were looking for could be anywhere and you'd have to either have a good memory or go hunting for a long while. Or for another example White Wolf's NWoD books. All the base "how the world works" rules are in the main book, then the extra rules for being a vampire are in the vampire book, etc. It seems though that 4th edition will not have a standard "This is the one book you'll ever truely need" system and will just scatter new rules and ideas through every book of their product line. |
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I find Cormyr: A Novel and City of Splendour both excellent. Of course, he co-wrote them both with good authors. Death of the Dragon is good too. His short stories I find good also, genereally. I'll freely admit that the conflict between what he wants to write and what he's asked to write harms his writing immensely, but in Cormyr, for example, he managed to fit in an astonishing amount of 'useless' background information. As a matter of fact, I consider that book the single best RPG novel purchase I've made.
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Which is an improvement over the 3.0/3.5 attitude of just publishing whatever and then making more money by publishing a new book in two years that fixes your problems. It remains to be seen if they actually bother testing their code this time around, or just release it as soon as they finish writing it. 3.0 was especially bad for classes whos tables and text disagreed with each other... Quote:
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Are you disqualifying Eladrin, Dragonspawn, and Tieflings because they don't fit your campaign world? If so, go for it!
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