[Headless Hydra Games] Mor Aldenn: Lost Notes!

[Brekkil]

Hey guys,

As I look forward to new projects (mainly the Viridian Legacy Adventure Path!), I also have to look back (at least while I am looking over all my Mor Aldenn notes!).

I have decided to post some of these notes over the next couple of days, along with some of the material that didn't make it into the final setting guide.

If you are interested, head on over to the blog and have a look!

The first set of "Lost Notes" are concerned with the many magical luxuries of living in a city of mages.

- Axel

[Dark_Mistress]

Cool I still need to pick up the new campaign book next month when money allows.

[Tom Baumbach]

This pleases me.

[Black_Lantern]

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

[Tom Baumbach]

Black_Lantern wrote:

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

Solution: Become the GM.

[Maxximilius]

Black_Lantern wrote:

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

Remind your DM that Paizo is originally a 3PP of D&D.

Also, that the PF rulebooks he allows in his games are made by people working for 3PP too.

[Dark_Mistress]

Black_Lantern wrote:

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

Yeah I never understood that point of view. I mean half the people that write the 3pp stuff is the same people that freelance for Paizo and write a big chunk of the official products.

[TOZ]

Then remind your DM that Paizo employs the same freelancers that WotC does. Watch minds be blown.

[Brekkil]

I understand how your DM feels and then again maybe not.

I don't accept just anything in my campaigns, but at least I take a look at the stuff that my players present me, also, my players frequently use the HHG stuff, which is cool... then I have a chance to playtest the stuff!

One of the things that I've found really easy to use... 3PP monsters. There are a lot of really cool monster books out there, Forgotten Foes, Creepy Creatures and the Book of Monster Templates, three books that I use often. 3PP monsters are often a little more daring (and interesting) than the Paizo ones (and don't think that I am badmouthing the bestiaries... I am not! I still use those as well).

And yeah, DM is right, a lot of the people who write 3PP stuff also freelance for Paizo.

- Axel

[WelbyBumpus]

Black_Lantern wrote:

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

I also have a DM that just flatly refuses 3PP stuff. He started this refusal early with Pathfinder; I proposed a few neat rules from Adamant Entertainment's Tome of Secrets and he shot them down without looking.

Like others here, as DM I'm happy to include anything my players give me that I review and approve first, including entire rules subsystems. I haven't been "burned" by doing so yet.

I've recently started to do a lot more Pathfinder writing, and Tome of Secrets has since become a mascot for me: I keep in mind that, no matter how good my writing is, some DMs will absolutely never look at it because it's "3PP". Keeps me humble, I suppose. :)

[LMPjr007]

Black_Lantern wrote:

It's hard to convince me to buy 3pp stuff because my DM hates the stuff.

Just show him this images and see if he still hates the stuff, just because it's 3pp stuff.