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DM_Greatness 08-16-06, 09:00 PM	Reading these boards, I see quite a bit of Eberron vs Forgotten Realms posts. After reading into both settings, I have just decided that I prefer the Scarred Lands setting better than both of those two. For those that don't know, Scarred Lands books include Relics & Rituals, Divine & the Defeated, and the Creature Collection. Scarred Lands is the background for my campaign world. I'm just wondering if I'm the only one, or if anyone else likes the Scarred Lands.
CryoSilver 08-16-06, 09:02 PM	I read some of the books, and I wasn't impressed; it seemed a little too "commercially dark" to me, in much the same fashion as Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth, if that helps.
DM_Greatness 08-16-06, 09:17 PM	So different I guess... I found that the Divine and the Defeated was an amazing read.
Lazzmaniandevil 08-16-06, 09:37 PM	I also used Scarred Lands as the basis for my campaign. I like the concept of a world almost destroyed by a war between deities. It's just too bad they have stop production before even updating to 3.5.
DM_Greatness 08-16-06, 09:52 PM	I also used Scarred Lands as the basis for my campaign. I like the concept of a world almost destroyed by a war between deities. It's just too bad they have stop production before even updating to 3.5. Agree, but I got more material that I'll ever use in the stint of a campaign
Balseraph 08-16-06, 09:58 PM	I own the Creature Collection. I'm sorry that I do. I bought it from a quick flick through the pages and liked some of the artwork and concepts. It turns out that I saw, in a very incomplete glance, the only artwork in the entire book that was any good at all. Then, of course, I actually read the entries. Ugh. I have rarely come across a less-balanced group of monsters that just don't add anything to my game. That's my opinion on that book at least. It turned me off the setting. I figured that if I liked and used the monsters from it in my homebrew world of the time, I might look into buying the setting. After one encounter with a tar dragon... yeah. I haven't looked at the book since.
DM_Greatness 08-16-06, 10:28 PM	I own the Creature Collection. I'm sorry that I do. I bought it from a quick flick through the pages and liked some of the artwork and concepts. It turns out that I saw, in a very incomplete glance, the only artwork in the entire book that was any good at all. Then, of course, I actually read the entries. Ugh. I have rarely come across a less-balanced group of monsters that just don't add anything to my game. That's my opinion on that book at least. It turned me off the setting. I figured that if I liked and used the monsters from it in my homebrew world of the time, I might look into buying the setting. After one encounter with a tar dragon... yeah. I haven't looked at the book since. Wow, I can't believe that you said that. My jaw dropped. :OMG! Scarred land is a world ripped apart by a divine war. In the beginning there were the Titans. They evolved from the world, shaped the world, created and tossed aside races at whim. The Titian created the Gods, and the Gods rebelled in a Divine war before they too were tossed aside. The Gods won, but the Titans could not be slain. They still exist in the world, either hacked up into bits and scattered, or chained to the bottom of the ocean, etc. The creatures in the creature collection reflect this world. There are good examples of Monsters that were mutated from the Blood sea, that are twisted and evil by being exposed to that Titans leaking blood. There are Slitheren, rats that have drank on the blood of another titan as it oozed up from burried soil. There are the Titanspawn monsters, that are the races that the Titans created and dismissed before the Divine War, etc... The bottom line I guess is this: You will never find a better collection of Monsters to fit in synch with a campaign setting, Ever. Most worlds, the monsters existed first, and then the campaign was created. With Scarred Lands, the Campaign was created first, and then the Monsters were written to fill that world.
Lazzmaniandevil 08-16-06, 10:42 PM	I'll agree however that the tar dragon seems unbalanced. I've never used it in my campaign, but I'm pretty sure my level 10 PCs wouldn't survive an encounter with a CR10 adult tar dragon. If I was to use it, I would probably tone down the breath weapon a bit. Needing two consecutive DC27 strenght checks (or 2 DC32 escape artist checks) to move out of the immobilizing substance would be pratically impossible for them. But there are a lot of good monsters in creature collection. You just didn't pick one of them...