[RPG]: Miniatures Handbook, reviewed by mxyzplk (4/2)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9836.phtml

Ernest Mueller's Summary:

The D&D Miniatures Handbook has some good new 3.5e D&D content, and some new D&D Miniatures rules - that are completely unrelated to one another.

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Post originally by Griffon Games at 2003-11-08 10:39:06
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Good book but the integration of the D&D and Miniatures stuff together feels like the book just didn't have enough miniature-related content so somebody decided to add some D&D stuff to fill space. It's not worthless space filler but it just seems incongruous.

Post originally by Selvarin at 2003-11-08 14:00:23
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Why make a bunch of 'Sudden' metamagic feats to bolster standard metamagic feats when it could as easily have been done by making a single 'Sudden' feat whose usage increases by the number of standard metamagic feats one has...?...*shrugs*...Sounds like filler.

Post originally by MetalMan at 2003-11-08 20:28:08
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Simple fact of it is - if you want mass combat rules for D&D, get Cry Havoc or wait and see if Fields of Blood from Eden is any good.

Post originally by Roy Morgan at 2003-11-09 10:08:51
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A "Miniatures Handbook" that seems to have less miniatures content than anything else. I guess WotC figured that title would sell better than 'A Bunch of Random Stuff for D&D'. They could have put the miniatures rules together into a B&W softcover and charged a lot less for it, and left the filler for another book.

Post originally by vitus979 at 2003-11-10 14:21:38
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IIRC an updated version of Cry Havoc will be coming out in one of the next couple Warcraft books.

Post originally by Cedric Chin at 2003-11-21 10:54:31
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Picked up CH at the FLGS yesterday. **Nice** book. Haven't read it entirely, but as a RPG/Miniatures gamer, I'm happy. It has a handful of **different** mass combat rules, ranging from d20-based 10-units-equals-one-miniature, to an abstract "couple of die rolls for entire nations" thing.

Although it **looks** like your typical thin softcover supplement, it's "chock full" of mass combat goodness. Not bad for $22 (or cheaper PDF).


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^