Comments on: Is this the ultimate 4e D&D Netbook? I think so

By: Greywulf

Greywulf — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:54:04 +0000

@Swordgleam I’m always a sucker for a shameless plug – and I plan to give a long hard look at your book when it’s out :D

By: Swordgleam

Swordgleam — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:10:40 +0000

@Ashran: Glad to hear you say that, because I’m coming out with a mostly-fluff 4e book shortly. I was worried people would be annoyed by the lack of significant crunch. (And Greywulf, feel free to delete this if you mind the shameless plug.)

@Greywulf: I look forward to seeing what you come up with. :D

By: Ashran

Ashran — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:02:54 +0000

I know :) I have a lot of the netbooks of old time (I remember waiting for the one released by the katargane or something like that for ravenloft each halloween).

That rant was not especially in regard of that particular netbooks, but to the trend in paying products, and especially “world books”.

By: Dyson Logos

Dyson Logos — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:54:45 +0000

@Ashran – that’s always been one of the points of the netbooks – they weren’t meant as fluff because they assumed that the DMs incorporating them would be running any one of a million varieties of games, so the fluff would just get int the way of incorporating the material into the game.

This is even more so for a PDF of converted material from older editions into 4e. The point of a book like this is to provide the mechanics that you are missing to incorporate the ‘fluff’ you already know you want. A treatise on the existance purpose and culture of druids isn’t what people were looking for when they were trying to add druids back into the core 4e rules when 4e was released – what hey were looking for were functional rules for druids.

By: Ashran

Ashran — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:45:34 +0000

The problem I have with that kind of netbooks… Ok it looks interesting if you like crunch… But as usual and even for paying products by wotc the fluff is more and more gone… It’s rules, more rules, layered in rules. I love fluff. I loved the time where there was a lot of products for a setting, detailling differents regions. The in place politic of wotc to release just three books for a setting is my only gripe with 4th edition (which I play and love), because that way all feel generic…

This comment comes after a glance at the pdf. I’ll sit down at one point and actually read a bit of it.

By: Greywulf

Greywulf — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:45:39 +0000

@Swordgleam In that case I’ll try to come up with a suitable D&D netbook/laptop image, just for you :D

By: Swordgleam

Swordgleam — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:01:17 +0000

@Greywulf: That still doesn’t change the fact that you first raised, and then dashed my hopes for a ready-made DMing machine. You’ll be hearing from my lawyers about my emotional suffering!

By: Dyson Logos

Dyson Logos — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:19:48 +0000

“The term “netbook” to mean a book that’s available to download on the ‘net predates the meaning of it being a small laptop by a couple of decades.”

Further, it typically means that it contains material collected from a group of people working through the various mediums of the internet.

An eBook is any electronic book, a netbook is a free electronic compilation of fan-created material.

Awesome find, greywulf. I’ll be aiming the 4e people in my groups at this.
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Retos Gamesblog » Das beste E-Book für D&D4 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:57 +0000

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By: Daemynic

Daemynic — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:45:15 +0000

This is great stuff, no doubt. very very nice material. Thanks for the head’s up!