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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 4:07AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2008
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I got this book last night. It's a fairly good book- I still like the Adventurer's Vaults better. There are less magic items in this release than the AV books but there is more fluff.
Rare items are better than uncommon and common items; they have powerful encounter powers that used to be daily. I'd be careful handing them out. There are common items in each category for PCs to buy. Overall, if you like the rarity system, this book is for you.
There are some new weapons- light mace, pike, light spear. Those are cool and will partake in my Core delves.
This book will serve me well in my Essentials era delves since I don't mix Essentials era stuff with Core.
I rate the book a 5 out of 10.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 7:52AM
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I got this book last night. It's a fairly good book- I still like the Adventurer's Vaults better. There are less magic items in this release than the AV books but there is more fluff.
Rare items are better than uncommon and common items; they have powerful encounter powers that used to be daily. I'd be careful handing them out. There are common items in each category for PCs to buy. Overall, if you like the rarity system, this book is for you.
There are some new weapons- light mace, pike, light spear. Those are cool and will partake in my Core delves.
This book will serve me well in my Essentials era delves since I don't mix Essentials era stuff with Core.
I rate the book a 5 out of 10.
Yeah, now if we could just actually buy it online it would be great.
WotC, this sucks, we'd all love to buy your product, but if you won't distribute it to the places we can actually buy from, well, I guess we just won't buy it! lol.
That is not dead which may eternal lie
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 7:55AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2008
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It is a head scratcher why thus wasn't released through Amazon. I'm guessing it's a limited print run and will be hard to find (I recall my FLGS couldn't get the Dark Sun Campaign Book in stock two months after it was released).
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 8:42AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 20, 2004
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If I had to use a numerical rating, I would have gone with a 7. My opinion is that if you liked previous loot books, you will probably like this, too. More items would have been nice, as would a larger list of items sorted by level, slot, and rarity.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 8:43AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 17, 2010
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Is there any reason at all for me to buy the book rather than just using its material from DDI?
D&D Next = D&D: Quantum Edition
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 8:54AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 20, 2004
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The flavor text, depending on how much it matters to you and/or if you liked what you saw from the excerpts.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 10:37AM
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skipping it
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 11:33AM
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Date Joined:
Sep 19, 2007
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skipping it
+1
It seems a decent portion of content is reprints, or UA stuff printed in book form. With this having less overall content than a typical AA, means I get very little new out of it.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 11:43AM
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Yeah, now if we could just actually buy it online it would be great.
WotC, this sucks, we'd all love to buy your product, but if you won't distribute it to the places we can actually buy from, well, I guess we just won't buy it! lol.
You can. Coolstuffinc.com has it on pre-order for a very good price.
Reflavoring: the change of flavor without changing any mechanical part of the game, no matter how small, in order to fit the mechanics to an otherwise unsupported concept.
Retexturing: the change of flavor (with at most minor mechanical adaptations) in order to effortlessly create support for a concept without inventing anything new.
Houseruling: the change, either minor or major, of the mechanics in order to better reflect a certain aspect of the game, including adapting the rules to fit an otherwise unsupported concept.
Homebrewing: the complete invention of something new that fits within the system in order to reflect an unsupported concept.
Default module =/= Core mechanic.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 09, 2011 - 11:51AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 19, 2008
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It seems a decent portion of content is reprints, or UA stuff printed in book form. With this having less overall content than a typical AA, means I get very little new out of it.
This book was originally canceled, but then got resurrected: the fact that it is mostly just a reprint of previously published material just makes me shake my head.
I suppose it's too much to ask for a new book to have some new stuff, plus all of AV1 and AV2 stuff in there, updated with rarity, errata and other revisions? (Basically AV and AV2 given the Essent45ls update?)
Yeah, probably. Too bad, 'cause that's a book I'd buy. :sadface:
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