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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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 Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 03:13:49
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It was bad enough having to keep your voice down so Alaundo would not hear.
When it comes to things like this, I always recall the one absolute rule of Candlekeep - "He who destroys knowledge, with ink, fire, or sword, is himself destroyed. Here, books are more valuable than lives".
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But Sage has better ears! I should of known Sage was going to follow in Alaundo's footsteps. All you organized scribes. Sometimes a mess is nice, it lets you know the library is being used! In my laboratory My tomes may be all over the place but I know EXACTLY what spell is in each and what I did with it.
As long as SAGE does not come in to straighten it up, my organization is infallible.
Hehe... I thought you'd be the type to keep things in order as well Mournblade  .
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The generic Races of..., in my opinion, was a waste of a good idea. And this is a pity. The general concept was good, but the final product stay, IMO, too much distant of the target...
Why were they a waste Chosen of Moradin?
Do you have any of them? Were there some parts you liked and other not... or did you just find them all unappealing?
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 05:32:46
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Hehe... I thought you'd be the type to keep things in order as well Mournblade .
Only on the battle field my dear sage! I have too many things I'm working on to put all the scrolls back where they belong. I need them open to the correct page so that I might get my work done:)
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 05:34:37
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Let's get back on topic people. :) |
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warlockco
Master of Realmslore
USA
1695 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 06:40:39
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Originally posted by Kuje
Cough,
Let's get back on topic people. :)
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My biggest gripe with Races of Stone, Wild, Destiny, is how they rewrote the gods of the Demi-Human Pantheons. Added in new gods, dumped other gods, and basically just rewrote everything.
Despite the fact that the gods of the Elves, Dwarves, etc have been set since 1E in both Greyhawk (Core) and the Realms. |
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Lady Kazandra
Senior Scribe
Australia
921 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 07:08:40
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Originally posted by Kuje
Cough,
Let's get back on topic people. :)
Party Pooper
My biggest gripe with Races of Stone, Wild, Destiny, is how they rewrote the gods of the Demi-Human Pantheons. Added in new gods, dumped other gods, and basically just rewrote everything.
Despite the fact that the gods of the Elves, Dwarves, etc have been set since 1E in both Greyhawk (Core) and the Realms.
How did you feel about the "crunchy" material presented within?
For myself, I felt that some of the PrCs presented seemed rather bland, with no really defined place for them among the racial cultures detailed. They seemed to be included . . . for the sake of being included.
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warlockco
Master of Realmslore
USA
1695 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 09:24:57
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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra
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Originally posted by warlockco
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Originally posted by Kuje
Cough,
Let's get back on topic people. :)
Party Pooper
My biggest gripe with Races of Stone, Wild, Destiny, is how they rewrote the gods of the Demi-Human Pantheons. Added in new gods, dumped other gods, and basically just rewrote everything.
Despite the fact that the gods of the Elves, Dwarves, etc have been set since 1E in both Greyhawk (Core) and the Realms.
How did you feel about the "crunchy" material presented within?
For myself, I felt that some of the PrCs presented seemed rather bland, with no really defined place for them among the racial cultures detailed. They seemed to be included . . . for the sake of being included.
Some of the PrCs were good, but most were just "what the..." and overlap with other PrCs or they were just made to be made. |
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Crennen FaerieBane
Master of Realmslore
USA
1378 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 14:39:40
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When it comes to the new gods presented, I think WotC was just giving something extra (or new) to those players that are new to D&D for 3E. They know that we veterans won't magically say, "Oh, of course it's a new pantheon, we'll use it!". I think it was just another way of wrapping something differently...
Not all the new demihuman gods were bad... I loved the Elven God of Drinking and Partying!!! Woohoo! Now you know those elves can get down!! (Can I get some YMCA?!)
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1120 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2005 : 15:08:03
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Why were they a waste Chosen of Moradin?
Do you have any of them? Were there some parts you liked and other not... or did you just find them all unappealing?
I take a look at the Races of Wild and Stone. First of all, I don“t like of the new races. If they use that pages to give more insight about the knows races (halflings, gnomes, dwarves and elves), then the material will be more focused. New gods? To fullfil how necessity? The space that they used to talk about new deities (where was these deities before?) was better used, IMO, describing the known deities... And, after new races and new deities, we go to the fantastic new list of PrCs, feats and spells... Now, there is one or other usable there (the Champion of Corellon is highly "faerūnian" for me, but there are too few briliant stars shining in the miriad of constelations of the prestige classes...). And add the feats in my last coment...
So, it“s this. There are good points in theses books. But they are few, given the quantity of pages, in my opinion. In the Planescape campaign setting, IIRC, there are very few pages talking about the demihuman planar homes, but that pages are filled with a so good lore, that we feel totally imersed in the flavor of to be a dwarf, or an elf... |
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 27 Aug 2005 : 03:52:03
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It looks like I am alone here, but I loved Races of Stone. I think the Goliaths are an excellent race, and to me thay have a very "Realmsian" feel. Just drop them in any mountain range as a reclusive and dwindling race. I thought the racial feats were good, and I really liked the whisper gnomes and chaos gnomes. As far as Races of Destiny goes, I was sadly disappointed. I have found this book practically useless. Some of the "city" type stuff was cool and I think one of the half-orc PrCs interested me at one time, but I can't recall now what it was. On to Races of the Wild, I like the Raptorans, I think they are well designed, and very cool. As far as working them into the Realms, what's the point? We already have avariels as a "lost" flying race, who needs two? Races of Eberron, I couldn't care less about Eberron, but I like the Warforged and the Shifters, so I may eventually check this book out, but so far, I have not read it.
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