Purchases

[gothwalk]

The Book of Exalted Deeds: Something for players, where the Book of Vile Darkness was for DMs. It looks really excellent, although I haven't looked at it in great detail yet. inannajones is very impressed, though.

Forgotten Realms: Underdark: Does what it says on the cover. About a dozen new PC races, some prestige classes, magic, items, and a good chunk of material on the geography of the FR Underdark. Good and crunchy, yet flavoursome.

Dynasties and Demagogues: A book about politics and political structures in game worlds. Looks very useful, although I've yet to sit down and peruse it properly. More advice than crunch or flavour, which is what I was looking for.

The Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe An excellent, excellent book - condensed information and advice, all useful for detailed settings. This is actually going to see a lot of use for Kingfisher's Way. The editing is awful, though, if it happened at all. There are occasional typos, a few badly contructed sentences, a few without articles, and the phrase "vast tracks of land". But still well worth it.

Ghostwalk: A campaign setting where PCs can play ghosts. Basically, a book all about the undead, which are my favourite monster types in any case. I really couldn't leave it behind. I haven't done more than glance at it yet, but it looks worthwhile too.

I talked myself out of buying the Fiend Folio and Urban Arcana. I do want them, but the other goods above took priority.

Comments

Re: Fan of low fantasy

[goblin-ballista.livejournal.com]

Low magic with Renaisance tech is usually my favorite way to run a D&D style game. Trade and travel used to always be the big things for the people I used to play with. But I always was a sucker for the soap opera pantheaon going on in the background.

-F