Thoughts on the 4E book?

[Havard]

I like it...but it's Blackmoor, so of course I like it...

Yes, since it is set in the same era as the 3.5 BM core book, there isn't a lot of 'new' setting material. I would have liked to have seen either separate race write ups for the Westryn and Cumasti or an 'Elf' write up to cover the Westryn and a 'Eladrin' write up to cover the Cumasti.

Jeff had some interesting comments on this in his Q&A thread.

I liked the background added for Dragonborn and Tieflings pretty much just because it was 'new' material.

I think the Tieflings were particularly well handled.

I would have liked a huge color map as well.

Poster maps is something I really miss from the good old TSR days. Its also something you really can't make yourself.

All in all, it's a really good campaign setting, but having been a Blackmoor fan since...well...forever...I would have liked to see more 'new' stuff. Even if the 4e setting had been set in the year 1035 (after the last year of published adventures for the MMRPG) as opposed to 1030 (the same year as the 3.5 setting), there could have been a bunch of interesting 'history' added to cover the five game years since the 3.5 book, while still staying in essentially the same era.

I agreee. It would have made sense to set the First Campaign sourcebook after the MMRPG. That would have given us a few new elements, while still leaving alot of the big setting changes for the Age of the Wolf.

Havard