Re: [HOE] Re: Combined Format

["Bob Fletcher" <bobfletch@erols.com>]

> Here's another point: It seems to be [in my experience at least] that
> the Marshal usually buys all the books for whatever game and the players
> buy mostly character books. I can see the combined format working this
> way, because I know that a lot of Marshals will garner ideas from
> anywhere and tweak them to fit a particular game or campaign, meaning
> that LC and HoE material may be useful to them in that respect.

    Good point.  With our group, most of us have at least the main rulebook
and a couple of supplements that pertain to our chosen characters.  Now, in
all fairness, I don't know how they're planning the layout on these new
books, so I could be wrong, but I don't really want to spend $20 on a book
that may well contain 30-40 pages of material that is next to useless to me.
I design all of my adventures myself, though I have been known to steal
movie or literary themes.  The only reason I might use a pre-gen adventure
is for the profiles of some of the bad guy scrubs.  Sometimes it's easier to
steal one from a book than make the NPC up from scratch, especially if
they're not expected to live long.