I just made some minor uploads to the Yahoogroups
file libraries.
These files are mostly player oriented, but I have
a couple of
more DM oriented files that I am still working
on. Much of this
material was updated in accordance with my own
suggested
guidelines for required vs. useful vs. optional
products.
I also picked up Martial Power and the Draconomicon
last week
and took a second look at the Advanced Player's
Guide. Of these
products, the least obviously useful is the
Draconomicon. Its main
value is in the form of lower level dragons -- but
the DMG already
provides decent guidelines for adjusting
monsters. For example,
if I told any of you who have not yet seen the
Draconomicon that
a black dragon wyrmling is a second level elite
monster, how
much trouble would you have recalculating its
statistics?
Martial Power definitely falls into the useful
category -- it is a
very nice product to have, but you could do most
needed
conversion work without ever referencing this
book. However,
I highly recommend this book if you want fighters
who rage
or fight with two weapons, rogues, who attack with
heavier
weapons, or rangers with beast
companions.
For the Advanced Player's Guide, I realized that
this product
may be difficult to track down, so I adjusted the
racial
conversion notes so that they don't strictly
require this
book -- the gnome, halfling, and orc-blooded work
much
better with this book, but I provided notes for
getting
around the need to refer to it if you don't have
it. However,
we currently have no reasonable alternative to this
book
for druid or mystic/monk characters.
Anyway, now that I have reliable Internet access
once
again, I should be ready to throw more material
together
over the next couple of months.
Does anyone else have anything they are working
on?