Maddog wrote:Seroiusly? Everyone liked The Eastern Territories book? Released in the middle of all that Bill Coffin-magic it was a heartbreaker! Suddenly a NEW mountian range? Less than a page for Both Phi & Lopan ? Yes Llorn is cool, so is Northholm, but........
Actually, the inclusion of Phi and Lopan really bugged me, since they weren't needed (or wanted) in that book. The lack of editing due to LoB's release (and the fact that it modified several items in ET) was also disappointing (especially being told that "ET was written first" in response to bringing up that point...when LoB had already been published). The new races and classes also had a negative impact since they were extraneously bad bits added.
Other than that I've found ET to be useful.
As for the other books.
PF Main Book. Yes I know much of this information is needed to play, but several areas were lacking, and the inclusion of demons and deevils as the monsters of choice was pretty disappointing. Palladium's equipment list didn't impress me either.
Monsters & Animals and Dragons & Gods. Sad in that you pretty much have to have at least one of these books to really play the game. Other than that, they do have useful information.
Old Ones and Island at the Edge of the World I have to give thanks for...since those are the only two books with details on the Old Kingdoms area! (And I love that both printings of Old Ones mention the "Half-orc" brothers living in some small town or other.)
High Seas was fairly useful...though I hated that whole Lemaria island stuff.
Adventures in the Northern Wilderness and Further Adventures in the Northern Wilderness were passable...I found the adventures to be a hit or miss proposition, but the limited regional information was useful.
Yin Sloth Jungles. Another book that was passable...just enough world information to be useful, though I didn't care for some of the new classes in it.
Western Empire. Good book, I just wish it had a better map of the Western Empire.
Baalgor Wasteland...is it just me or did no one else care that there was anything here?
Mt Nimro...Bill's saddest work to date...as I've already stated.
Library of Blethlerad...one of the top 5 PF books out there, packed full of information (some useful, some not, but you can't have everything). Loved it because it actually had more useful world information than Kevin ever put into his fantasy world.
Northern Hinterlands...another fairly useful book...a bit out of the blue though.
Land of the Damned 1...an interesting intro into LOD that had me waiting for more. I really loved the monster creation section, since it really illustrated role-playing differing levels of attributes (with the exception of M.A. sadly). Also, check out the Bill Coffin artwork.
Land of the Damned 2...Fairly disappointing. The lack of maps, the not-quite fitting Elmore cover (PB actually got him, then squandered him
), and the lack of undead in a book touted for it's undead (only four or so of the pseudo-undead in the book actually came across AS undead...the rest were pitiful attempts at trying to make new undead) all served to really drag this book down. On the plus side was the honorable mention we got for posting about his use of nukes in LOD1 and the curses...the chain mail bikini bit wasn't bad either
.