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I have been away from RPG's for years. I am excited by the new DnD 3.5E. The new skills and feats let you customize your character quite a bit. I recommend this new version of dungeons and dragons to anyone who wants to get back into the game or w
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Pretty Good? No, no, no, it REALLY dAMN GOOD! The best? It's beyond the best. It's unanimous, humans, elves, ogres, dwarves, kender, gnomes, dragons, and minotaurs all say thumbs up to life on Kryyn.
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I'm not going to say this series was all bad, but its nothing compared to Jordan or Terry Brooks. Or even David Eddings. The storyline was nothing new, though Raistlin, Kitiara and Verminaard were good editions to the plot and my favorate...
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Hickman and Weis write a highly entertaining and exciting fantasy series, but they're works can hardly be compared to those of tolkein. While the excitement is nearly non-stop, most of the characters are poorly characterized with the exception...
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This gift set is a collection of the 3 core rule books needed to play 3.5 edition dungeons and dragons. Note that each of these books has a suggested retail price of $30. This set is priced at over $90 at the local bookstore. Amazon sells each of...
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Great redesign and I love the new modules to go with the new d20 system. However, what doesn't make sense to me is the price. Slip cover or no, when you purchase the books individually you save $.06.
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This set fixes some things that needed fixing but you know that they will just come out with another edition as they can't get it right.
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Buying the Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG) took some thought because it's not as critical to players as the Player's Handbook (PHB) and I don't personally DM sessions often. There are occasions where you need the DMG though for clarifications on...
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Dissapointing is an understatement. There is not a bit of information in this book that would not have been better placed in Dragon magazine. It's useful to some extent, but most players view hardback books as "cannon" and softback as...
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It really is that good. If your character has gold burning a hole in your coinpurse, this is the ultimate source for all your magic item needs. It has weapon and armour&shield abilites listed and compiled from previous sources, although it didn't hav
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This book is extremly good. If you haven't read the dark elf trilogy read that first, then read this. This series is one of if not the best I have ever read and i have read a lot. R.A. Salavtore is the Man. I recommend this to young and old...
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This is an example of how important all elements of the book production proccess are. R.A Salvatore, in his first crack at being a writer, has come up with some of the most real fantasy characters ever. The stories are great. 5 stars to him.

But...
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An addict as I am to surrealism and fantasy and this book being so discussed I felt an urge to buy it. I'm not of the opinion that it was a total waste of money but I'm not overwhelmed by its contents. It was exciting, and sometimes funny, but it...
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The options and info provided in this manual are great additions to expand any campaign that wants to be deeper than just a bunch of standard characters beating up a bunch of standard monsters. It allows flexibility and provides valuable...
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I usually love new rulebooks, but this one is a stinker. It was obviously written by someone who loves multiplayer online games and is trying to bring some aspects of those games into a D&D campaign. The problem is, a lot of features that were...
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Excellent book. Found the entries on how this applies to Faerun and how it applies to Eberron very useful. Also the pictures in this book were fantastic
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This is the newest of the monster manuals out for Dungeons and Dragons. I would probably give it a 2.5 stars

Things I found good were the one page per monster format with some tactical advice for many of them. Very good for newer...
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Monster Manual III maintains the norm of most WotC products - good illustrations, adequate content, and an inflated price. The monsters are okay, but I don't see myself using more than 10% of them within the foreseeable future. Like many,...
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I found this book extremely well worth the money. It collects alot of the Prestige classes from older books so you don't have to go and spend $200 to access them all. Some people have complained that the updated versions of the classes in this...
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From the Editorial Review: "This title was not only compiled from various D&D sources, but contains new features as well ..." Hmm. This sounds suspiciously familiar to me. How much new stuff was in D&D 3.5? Didn't D&D 3.5 make enough money for...
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I picked this up under the mistaken impression that it contained updated prestige classes from all the builder books. It's basically a 3.5 update of the p-classes, feats, etc. from one of those books (Sword and Fist) and related material from...
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I've been playing D&D pretty steadily for about 5 years now, and DMing off-and-on for three of those years. I always found the campaign tools in the DMG very helpful in developing my own campaigns and fleshing out the worlds that I create, but I...
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It took me Dungeon Master's Guide II to find out that I had bought too many D&D books already. I am used to flipping through a D&D book and sorting things that I like and might be useful from things that are a waste of space. I didn't find...
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This book is for everyone who absolutely must fleshout every single little detail in a town. It puts the DnD world itself under a microscope. This is for advanced DM's only. Literally, unless players are going to explore a town until they find...
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A MUST-READ for anyone who has read the Dragonlance Chronicles or Ledgends!
The Soulforge begins with a six year old Raistlin and proceeds through his magic schooling, adolescense, and the companion's adventures culminating in Raistlin's...
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I am not quite sure why people are giving this 5 stars and a perfect rating. This is nowhere near classic literature, nor is is a wonderous example of english prose.

All that aside, I simply found this book slow. If you are a huge...
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I felt that this book was a little to compressed. There was a lot more that needed to be said. When I read Chronicles and Legends I felt that Raistlin had done much in his life and had to mature at a rapid rate. I was under the impression...
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