Just bought the apelord download and overall I like it. A few disclaimers. One, I have not yet read the whoe PDF. Two, I love monkeys/apes/etc. From what I have read, the race looks very playable. My gut feeling is that they would fit best in some sort of Swords and Sorcery game. I really like that OBE went so far as to include new racial feats as they put the apelord on par with the PHB races in a way that the
MM appendix races are not (yet). I also love that several
MM style entries are presented for the apelord. I suspect these will see more use in my own game than will the playable race itself. There are several adventure seeds that I have not read. Only three qualms with the product. One, the race gets a bonus to two physical stats (I'm not sure if other
4E races do or not, but to my memory they do not, and I am a slave to needless symmetry). Two, I would have loved some more artwork, and maybe something a little slicker (I am a slave to Paizo's top notch production values). Three (and this is not really a complaint), I'd love to see what they could do for other intelligent monkeys, you know, the little guys with tails.
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