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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1881771" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I myself only reviewed one book so far, and it didn't have this problem, but I have thought about this issue for other books which I'm eventually looking forward to review one day or the other <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p>On one hand, having parts of a book which you cannot use unless you own other books is a bad thing. It obviously depends on how extensive is that part, but it is however frustrating to the customer who has paid for the entire book.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, to avoid the thing above it also happens that some important books (the ones which open up an entire new depth to the game with new rules, such as ELH, D&Dg, PsiHB/XPsiHB) aren't getting support in other products, and run the risk of becoming dead-end books... in the sense that once you get an Epic Level Handbook and start playing with epic rules, you may not get anything else epic from other books. This is of course frustrating for the people who bought the important book.</p><p></p><p>What could be done? As a reviewer I decided to still consider better a book with no outsider references, unless the book has two versions of that part, one which works with the outsider book and one which works within core rules only. This very rarely happens, but it would be far the best for everyone, and the "cost" shouldn't be high IMHO, because that sort of material which needs something non-core is usually small (mostly PrCls, spells or feats).</p><p></p><p>In some cases, WotC has elegantly satisfied everyone with simple web enhancements (at least I remember the epic progressions for many PrCls, but I think there's much more).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1881771, member: 1465"] I myself only reviewed one book so far, and it didn't have this problem, but I have thought about this issue for other books which I'm eventually looking forward to review one day or the other :p On one hand, having parts of a book which you cannot use unless you own other books is a bad thing. It obviously depends on how extensive is that part, but it is however frustrating to the customer who has paid for the entire book. On the other hand, to avoid the thing above it also happens that some important books (the ones which open up an entire new depth to the game with new rules, such as ELH, D&Dg, PsiHB/XPsiHB) aren't getting support in other products, and run the risk of becoming dead-end books... in the sense that once you get an Epic Level Handbook and start playing with epic rules, you may not get anything else epic from other books. This is of course frustrating for the people who bought the important book. What could be done? As a reviewer I decided to still consider better a book with no outsider references, unless the book has two versions of that part, one which works with the outsider book and one which works within core rules only. This very rarely happens, but it would be far the best for everyone, and the "cost" shouldn't be high IMHO, because that sort of material which needs something non-core is usually small (mostly PrCls, spells or feats). In some cases, WotC has elegantly satisfied everyone with simple web enhancements (at least I remember the epic progressions for many PrCls, but I think there's much more). [/QUOTE]
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