Trashes & Treasures: Older 3rd Party Sourcebooks, a Walking Tour

[Saintheart]

I have a suggestion for a potential subject for review, how about the Iron Kingdoms Character Guide from Privateer Press?

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Happy New Year everyone!

[Jervis]

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Happy New Year everyone!

Not him but iron kingdoms is AMAZING

[Fizban]

Not him but iron kingdoms is AMAZING

After dredging through it in my quest for magitech I have to disagree- but we can leave that discussion for if/when Saintheart gets to it

[Bavarian itP]

Nice to know that there's a list

[Bavarian itP]

The only third party book I personally own in paper is "Ultimate Character Concepts". I don't feel like I'm qialified to review it, unfortunately.

[Saintheart]

Honestly if people are minded to throw up their own 3rd party reviews, so long as it conforms to the format I set out in all my previous ones for consistency, I'd be happy to edit the front of the thread to reflect the additions. This is a much bigger task than I first thought and I really think there at least some interesting gems out there which do deserve some light back in the sun.

As for being qualified to review something? You don't need qualifications. I'm not the least bit qualified to review this stuff, nobody is, they're just personal reflections and subjective assessments, as I set out at the start of the thread. Everything here remains caveat emptor and there are certainly others here to "correct" an "incorrect" opinion I or anyone else might have.

And I haven't forgotten this thread - it's just been a hectic time recently, I will be coming back to it ASAP.

[Kalkra]

Honestly if people are minded to throw up their own 3rd party reviews, so long as it conforms to the format I set out in all my previous ones for consistency, I'd be happy to edit the front of the thread to reflect the additions. This is a much bigger task than I first thought and I really think there at least some interesting gems out there which do deserve some light back in the sun.

As for being qualified to review something? You don't need qualifications. I'm not the least bit qualified to review this stuff, nobody is, they're just personal reflections and subjective assessments, as I set out at the start of the thread. Everything here remains caveat emptor and there are certainly others here to "correct" an "incorrect" opinion I or anyone else might have.

And I haven't forgotten this thread - it's just been a hectic time recently, I will be coming back to it ASAP.

There have been times I've been tempted to review things, but any time I start thinking about what I would write, it always turns into "this is how you can use this feature to become Pun-Pun". I suspect I would need to DM more/ever to be able to give a less munchkiny review.

[Bavarian itP]

Honestly if people are minded to throw up their own 3rd party reviews, so long as it conforms to the format I set out in all my previous ones for consistency, I'd be happy to edit the front of the thread to reflect the additions. This is a much bigger task than I first thought and I really think there at least some interesting gems out there which do deserve some light back in the sun.

As for being qualified to review something? You don't need qualifications. I'm not the least bit qualified to review this stuff, nobody is, they're just personal reflections and subjective assessments, as I set out at the start of the thread. Everything here remains caveat emptor and there are certainly others here to "correct" an "incorrect" opinion I or anyone else might have.

And I haven't forgotten this thread - it's just been a hectic time recently, I will be coming back to it ASAP.

Honestly, I wrote this because the 45 days were looming
But I just realised there's a second third party book I own. Maybe I will review this one. It is extremly obscure, but feels relevant.

[Endarire]

Book of Eldritch Might (I'm unsure which) has the spell bolt of conjuration which does damage with no save and no SR. Metamagic that baby up for irresistible pain!

And then I saw it was called bolt of conjuring and it's BoEM 1.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Saintheart
Honestly if people are minded to throw up their own 3rd party reviews, so long as it conforms to the format I set out in all my previous ones for consistency, I'd be happy to edit the front of the thread to reflect the additions. This is a much bigger task than I first thought and I really think there at least some interesting gems out there which do deserve some light back in the sun.

As for being qualified to review something? You don't need qualifications. I'm not the least bit qualified to review this stuff, nobody is, they're just personal reflections and subjective assessments, as I set out at the start of the thread.

As it happens, I just picked up Cry Havoc by Skip Williams, writing for Malhavoc Press. I've only started reading, but I'd been thinking about doing a review along the lines of what you've been doing here.

And not needing qualifications is a definite plus. I got none.

[vasilidor]

I have an old book by AEG called Dragons. I have used some of it in some games, it has a bit of a mix of good and bad stuff in it. It was released before 3.5 came out though. Not sure how well I would actually be able to review it though.