Player's Guide to Arcanis (D20 System): An Arcanis Player's Supplement

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Summary: Great setting and campaign marred by poor editing
Review: The Arcanis campaign setting for D&D 3.0/3.5 is a wonderful setting full of political intrigue as well as the standard hack-and-slash. Many of the Nations in the setting are culled from the real world (The Coryani Empire is very romanesque, Milandir is more of an vague medieval/rennaisance England, etc.) so it gives a fmailiar feel. Also supported by the RPGA with the Living Arcanis campaign, it gives great opportunities for exploring the world as Paradigm Concepts shapes the world and throws one twist after another at the players. (As a side note, many of the flavor quotes before classes and races are actually based of characters played by people in the RPGA campaign, showing that the company gives players the opportunity to shape the world.)

I love the book. It is chock full of information and crunchy goodness. Re-imaginings of some of the standard D&D classes, as well as many new base and prestige classes. The choices thi sbook offers you is staggering. There is one big, gaping hole in all this praise though. The editing is atrocious. PCI is working on errata to the book at this moment, and there will be a lot of it. Clarifications, corrections, eliminating contradictions, the works. There's a lot of grammatical, and spelling mistakes along with the odd missing word here and there.

The only explanation I can conceive of for this is because the player's were clamoring for the book, mostly driven by the player base of the RPGA Living campaign who was seeking to update to the new 3.5 standard of D&D. As a result, I think it was rushed out a little early and now they are having to devote resources to fix the problems.

All in all though, a great product from a great company.

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Summary: Excellent Dungeons and Dragons Campaign setting
Review: This is an excellent campaigh setting for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5. It has a greco-romanesque feel with a twist