Good, balanced, 3rd party splatbooks?

[Tamorlin]

As the title says. What are your favorite 3rd party splatbooks? Which ones do you find more useful and balanced?

[digiman619]

Spheres of Power (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/). Full stop. It makes magic balanced and interesting again, not the buffet cherry-picking that Vancian is.

[Venger]

hyperconscious is very technically 3rd party, but was written by bruce cordell, so essentially only is for legal reasons. it's flavorful, interesting, and well-balanced extra psionic content (just ignore all that psionic combat crap)

[legomaster00156]

For 3.5 or Pathfinder? And either way, balanced against what? The idea of balance assumes the system is balanced against itself, and, well... :smallsigh:

[Coidzor]

I've heard good things about importing various things from ACKS(Adventurer Conqueror King), such as the economy and the pricing and weights for various items.

Green Ronin has put some decent material together as I recall, but I can't point to a single splatbook offhand.

[phlidwsn]

Dreamscarred Press: All of it, but my favorites are Psionics and Path of War.

Green Ronin: I'm fond of the Freeport/pirate stuff.

[frogglesmash]

I'm a big fan of both Monsternomicon I and II from Privateer Press. Their entire Iron Kingdoms strong is incredibly awesome.

[Mehangel]

Spheres of Power (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/). Full stop. It makes magic balanced and interesting again, not the buffet cherry-picking that Vancian is.

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