As you can probably tell I'm along time gamer, my favorite time was 2e and they had this game accessory called "Aurora's Whole Realm Catalogue" just like in the title. I personally love this book, all the items in it, mostly non magical, I feel add a lot to the game, and these items are mostly simple mundane items like locks, various metals even metals like adamantine and mithril in sheet or ingot form, flour or sugar in by the lbs bags, toys and game set. This would be great way to add a little detail to a game or to help out a new game master. If anyone from WoTC is reading this, please make a new one.
Seconded. A book of just items, magical and non-magical, would be wonderful (and maybe it could finally give 5e rules for building castles)! Honestly, I would really like a series of smaller, Volo’s-like books focused on game elements other than monsters. “Meepo’s Big Book of Traps” would make me insanely happy.
DM's Guild has books called the Book of Random Tables 1-4, which have a lot of that kind of thing in them. They are built as random tables but nothing says you have to roll on them and can't just use them as lists of things.
There are lots of other similar products as well on DMG.
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Lyxen it's not a matter of translation it's a matter of avalibility, I have an Auror's but what about other players and DMs?
BioWizard Auror's Whole realm Catalogue is an in game catalogue with prices, descriptions, and funny comments about some of the items, which makes it different than a random table of items.
Admittedly, if I ran D&D publications for WotC, I’d have an entirely different strategy. We’d have small, $15 paperback modules for a few levels instead of huge campaign books. At the same price, we’d have a book of traps, a book of spells, a book of magic items, a book of subclasses, a book of races, a book of strongholds, and a ton of different books of monsters. We’d also have a smaller, simpler PhB with a solo “tutorial,” and a smaller DMG that actually focuses on building adventures instead of feeding unhealthy levels of worldbuilding. :-)
Anyway, I’m aware that this is very off topic. Unfortunately, the way WotC has chosen to publish D&D material just doesn’t help the odds of a revamped Aurora’s. But we can still hope.
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As you can probably tell I'm along time gamer, my favorite time was 2e and they had this game accessory called "Aurora's Whole Realm Catalogue" just like in the title. I personally love this book, all the items in it, mostly non magical, I feel add a lot to the game, and these items are mostly simple mundane items like locks, various metals even metals like adamantine and mithril in sheet or ingot form, flour or sugar in by the lbs bags, toys and game set. This would be great way to add a little detail to a game or to help out a new game master. If anyone from WoTC is reading this, please make a new one.
Seconded. A book of just items, magical and non-magical, would be wonderful (and maybe it could finally give 5e rules for building castles)! Honestly, I would really like a series of smaller, Volo’s-like books focused on game elements other than monsters. “Meepo’s Big Book of Traps” would make me insanely happy.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
DM's Guild has books called the Book of Random Tables 1-4, which have a lot of that kind of thing in them. They are built as random tables but nothing says you have to roll on them and can't just use them as lists of things.
There are lots of other similar products as well on DMG.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
Lyxen it's not a matter of translation it's a matter of avalibility, I have an Auror's but what about other players and DMs?
BioWizard Auror's Whole realm Catalogue is an in game catalogue with prices, descriptions, and funny comments about some of the items, which makes it different than a random table of items.
BioWizard see my comment above.
They can get it via the DM's Guild here
Wizards of the Coast has actually been very proactive about making books for older editions readily available
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Admittedly, if I ran D&D publications for WotC, I’d have an entirely different strategy. We’d have small, $15 paperback modules for a few levels instead of huge campaign books. At the same price, we’d have a book of traps, a book of spells, a book of magic items, a book of subclasses, a book of races, a book of strongholds, and a ton of different books of monsters. We’d also have a smaller, simpler PhB with a solo “tutorial,” and a smaller DMG that actually focuses on building adventures instead of feeding unhealthy levels of worldbuilding. :-)
Anyway, I’m aware that this is very off topic. Unfortunately, the way WotC has chosen to publish D&D material just doesn’t help the odds of a revamped Aurora’s. But we can still hope.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
okay that makes me feel better, and Lyxen's point about translation works for me as well now. Thanks Davedamon.