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#1 zombiegleemax Oct 26, 2004 21:22:03

I am giving my opinion(Read that, opinion) on the four dragonlance books described above. I hope that people agree with me about this. The reviews will be out of 10, with 1 being this is such a horrible book that i'd burn it, and 10 being this is so perfect that i would keep it in a glass display case when i wasn't reading it so it wouldn't get damaged. In other words, anything more than 5 is "i like this book". AoM (Dangit, bold isn't working) Age of Mortals is a definately good product, which is used mainly by the DM in my game, not the players. It is nice, but in my opinion wasn't really usefull since many of the things there weren't things i wanted to deal with.(Example:In my campaign, Solanthus is under the controll of the KoS.) I found it pretty usefull, mostly for the races & classes. I still like it though, giving it 6.4 BoK This is my least favorite of my dragonlance books, for several reasons. 1:There aren't that many monsters, and i normally only use a fraction of the monsters in any rulebook for my game. 2:A problem i see with many Dragonlance products is that you need to start with them to use them, a problem i saw with the Status rules. 3:I don't like that layout for the monster's stats at all, i like the standard one far better. Still, outside those, it was a pretty good book(The players have encountered Venom Draconians and Dragonspawn Abominations already). One minor quirk was that it said the Juvenile Urkhan Worm was stronger then the Adult one, is this an editing error? This deserves a 5.6, i'd say. ToHS This is the greatest gaming book that i have ever read. Only a few things keep it from the perfect 10. The first is with raistlin's stats. What was the first spell Raistlin ever cast(See soulforge)? Sleep. What are the 4 spells Raistlin knows in ToHS? Burning Hands, Comprehend Languages, Floating Disk, & Identify. That is in my opinion the biggest error in ToHS. To continue with Raistlin's problems, his languages. He should know Absanian and 1 more in addition to those. That's nitpicking i know, but i feel it should be mentioned here. That's all with his problems. I found the spellcasting races part useless. I would have liked it if there had been more PrCs and if there had been feats. I know that that sounds like a lot of complaining, but note that there's 160 pages and i'm objecting to a few of them. I loved the book. I rate it 9.3 out of 10.