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MerricB
Underboss
2353 Posts
    
Australia
 | | 02/21/2006 9:53 PM |
| G'day, everyone!
I've finished my review of Races of the Dragon.
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2943582
Enjoy!
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Merric Blackman
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IanB
Commander
3112 Posts
| | 02/21/2006 10:03 PM |
| I don't have time to go in depth just this moment but I didn't care for the book at all. Like most of the Races of... books I felt like there was too much wasted space and that the new races in particular were lackluster.
I did like the kobold content well enough, and some of the mechanical stuff was pretty good. I'm not totally sure what it is that leads the environmental books and Complete... books to be so much more useful. | |
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MerricB
Underboss
2353 Posts
Australia
| | 02/21/2006 10:15 PM |
| It's because they apply to a lot more of actual game play. When you come down to it, race only matters at the very beginning of character creation. Rarely does it have abilities that impact play past the first couple of levels.
You are always paying attention to classes and feats, however. (And the terrain books are there to generate adventures from, so that's great).
Cheers! | |
Merric Blackman
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 02/22/2006 12:38 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by MerricB
Then came Meepo, from the first 3e adventure, The Sunless Citadel, and kobolds had a new niche: they were cute.
That's why we all love Meepo [^]
Nice review. It doesn't inspire me to rush out and buy the book. Then again, I haven't bothered with any of the Races or locations series. Too expensive when I have my plasticrack habit to keep up and from what I've seen most of the material isn't spectacular. | |
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MerricB
Underboss
2353 Posts
Australia
| | 02/22/2006 12:46 AM |
| It's a rather specialist book, as I indicate. It's worth it for me, as I've a player who runs a kobold, and the sorcerer material is good as well, but it's not one of those "everyone must get it" types of books.
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Gristlemane
Sergeant
623 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 2:18 AM |
| Hmmm. A slightly negative review from the always effervescent Mr. Merric? Not good. I was really hoping that kobolds would get put into a DM focused book rather than a PC book. I guess that is a business decision. I am afraid I have to agree on the artwork, but there was one very neat picture of a kobold with black dragon blood that really caught me attention.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/rodragon_gallery/94159.jpg | |
It's deja vu all over again. | |
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2313 Posts
Toronto
| | 02/22/2006 5:19 AM |
| Thanks for the preview again B, one question, while you brought up that the book has a "...In Eberron" sidebar, does it also have one for the Forgotten Realms? Was this an over-sight on your part or did Wizards choose to ignore their other setting?
Thx again for the preview an interesting read always. | |
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MerricB
Underboss
2353 Posts
Australia
| | 02/22/2006 6:39 AM |
| There's no "in Forgotten Realms" sidebar, and it doesn't need it. You'd have no trouble using the material as presented in the Realms. In Eberron, dragons are handled differently.
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 02/22/2006 9:48 AM |
| | Sounds like this Dragonborn race that hates Tiamat was made to be used in Red Hand of Doom. | |
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