Ah, DragonAge...

[kettsdaughter]

   Okay, so I was bad today...been sad and depressed this week, so I splurged (pretty bad, actually), and bought the starter gear for the DragonAge RPG tabletop campaigns.  I already had the campaigns themselves (Blood in Fereldan), but I didn't have the "dungeon master" gear, my own dice, or the character development book.  So I bought those

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[aelvana]

Wow, I really like that set of dice. I like paging through tabletop reference materials to get ideas, though I've never played a game. Monster manuals are especially fun because you get not only a visual plus description, you often get other information like about habitat, habits, abilities, etc, that makes it easier to figure out my own critters.

[kettsdaughter]

Tabletop gaming really seems like a little known art. There're some really cool ideas and characters and critters. In the case of DragonAge, there really aren't a lot of manuals (and local bookstores don't stock the game, only Dungeons & Dragons, Shadowrun, and something named something like Pathfinders). DragonAge only has two level books (my guess is character development, mostly), Blood in Fereldan (the campaign book I own), and the dungeon master kit, which probably has all the other tips and stuff. The two level books probably have critters in them, too...I only bought the older one because it has the lower levels for starting out in it and Blood in Fereldan is geared toward starting out, though it can be easily adapted to the higher tiers (book two).
I remember Joseph (ex-fiance) had a werewolf RPG book from when he used to play, and he had a couple D&D ones. As a writer, he also used them for ideas. I also looked through a couple D&D critter manuals at Barnes one time. We'll see how the DragonAge ones are.

[aelvana]

Yes, I think I know the werewolf series you're talking about. I have one or two of the D&D monster manuals (I think I'm still missing the one with the phoenix in it, though I can't check until I'm unpacked... something like that. They had two v3 editions, one of them having two books and one having one).

It's actually really helpful for worldbuilding since that's exactly what they're meant to do...

[kettsdaughter]

The dice come in several different colors: diamond, topaz, ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst, blue moonstone, fire garnet, smoke quartz, peridot, teal zircon, sunstone, aquamarine, rubellite, mint, amber, and glow in the dark green. You can get each variety either with the numbers inked, or, like mine, without (which I prefer; they're far more striking).