Pathfinder Reviewer ENDZEITGEIST Goes Professional!

If you're a fan of third-party Pathfinder products, you've probably heard of Endzeitgeist. Over the last few years, he's become the most prolific Pathfinder reviewer around, and has an astonishing output of reviews. Endzeitgeist has just launched a Patreon to support his reviewing and to help him go professional with his reviews. The response so far has been overwhelming - he's at over $500 per month now - but, as he says, he devotes at least 4 hours per day to reviewing.

"My reviews are regarded as fair, hard, impartial, critical and my policy of updating reviews to address changes made has allowed me to earn the trust of publishers and fans alike. My goal is to provide means for authors and publishers to improve their offerings - my focus has always been unbiased, constructive criticism."

The Patreon can be found here. Endzeitgiets's website and reviews can all be found here. During April, Endzeitgiest reviewed a staggering 38 products(!) and gave an average rating of 4.4. His output really is evidence of hard work and dedication. 22 products got his 5 stars plus seal-of-aproval rating. You can read his reviews at his website, or support his Patreon here.

Product	Publisher	Rating
Underworld Races: Colliatur	Adventure A Week Games	5
Warrior Prestige Archetypes: The Living Monolith	Purple Duck Games	4
Mythic Monsters: Emissaries of Evil	Legendary Games	5
Gossamer Worlds: GlimmerGloam (Diceless)	Rite Publishing	5
Cyclopean Deeps Vol. I	Frog God Games	5
Demon Cults: The Emerald Order	Kobold Press	4
B04 – The Cave Beast’s Hoard (Revised Edition)	Adventure A Week Games	5
Path of Villains	Legendary Games	5
Underworld Classes – Gemcaster	Adventure A Week Games	2.5
Perplexing Puzzles #2: Puzzle Chests	Interjection Games	5
Mythic Options: Core Mythic Class Features	Rogue Genius Games	3
Mythic Minis: Mythic Gloves & Bracers	Legendary Games	4
Dance Macabre	Four Dollar Dungeons	5
Underworld Races: Dødelig	Adventure A Week Games	5
Mythic Monsters: Mythos, Too	Legendary Games	5
Bloodforge	Dreamscarred Press	4
Mini-Dungeon: Shrine of the Earth-Barons	Adventure A Week Games	5
Mini-Dungeon: Hobgoblin Lair	Adventure A Week Games	3
Advanced Races: Lizardfolk	Kobold Press	5
Urban Dressing: War-torn Town	Raging Swan Press	5
Mythic Minis: Mythic Rings	Legendary Games	5
World of Obsidian Apocalypse: Life after Undeath	LPJ Design	2.5
Gossamer Worlds: Megacities of Neo_Neo (Diceless)	Rite Publishing	5
Mythic Mini: Mythic Curses	Legendary Games	5
Underworld Races: Zwerc	Adventure A Week Games	2
Warrior Prestige Archetypes: The Lantern Bearer	Purple Duck Games	4
Gossamer Worlds: The Black (Diceless)	Rite Publishing	4
Warrior Prestige Archetypes: Grand Marshal	Purple Duck Games	2
B22 – Serpents of Fickle Fortune	Adventure A Week Games	5
Mythic Minis: Mythic Armor	Legendary Games	4
B21 – Shadows of the Deep	Adventure A Week Games	4
From the Forge: 13 Evil Spells	Rogue Genius Games	4
Mini-Dungeons: Buried Council Chambers	Adventure A Week Games	5
Mythic Minis: Mythic Rods	Legendary Games	5
Faerie Tales from Unlit Shores – Creeping Beauties of the Wood (DCC)	Purple Duck Games	5
Gossamer Worlds: Aethersaur Island (Diceless)	Rite Publishing	5
From the Deep III – A Dragon’s Orders	Dreamscarred Press	4
Mythic Monsters: Guardians of Good	Legendary Games	5
Average Rating		4.4

 

[myscha_sleddog]

Here's his Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=433233

 

[Morrus]

Here's his Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=433233

Did my link smell or something?

 

[myscha_sleddog]

Looks like I missed it!
"The Patreon can be found here." Made me think of the main website, so I did not even click it.
My bad.

 

[Doctor Futurity]

This feels a little weird to me. Several publishers donating to a guy who will do reviews of their products....hmmmm. Am I just being paranoid here?

EDIT: not trying to disparage Endzeitgesit. It just feels like the wrong methodology for what he's going for. It could just be me, though.

 

[gamerprinter]

All he's offering to publishers is the allowance to bump their products to the top of his review list - it in no way guarantees a positive review - I see no paranoia. While most of my products get glowing reviews from Endzeitgeist, I've got a 3 star or 2 from him, so he doesn't only give raving reviews even with publishers that have received glowing EZG reviews in the past.

Endzeitgeist was a KS backer and a backer for a Rite Publishing in-house in support of my Kaidan setting, which he fully admits at the start of any product review of said products.

 

[Waller]

This feels a little weird to me. Several publishers donating to a guy who will do reviews of their products....hmmmm. Am I just being paranoid here?

EDIT: not trying to disparage Endzeitgesit. It just feels like the wrong methodology for what he's going for. It could just be me, though.

Yeah, the optics are a bit weird. Fans donating is great. Many of the people paying him are publishers. He says he'll put a clear disclaimer if a publisher is paying him for the review or if he reviews one of the publishers or products he worked for/on.

 

[Morrus]

If anyone were in any doubt as to how hard this guy works, I just made a spreadsheet of April's reviews alone. He's reviewed 38 products in the last 28 days. Endzeitgeist's output is immense - I don't disbelieve him when he says he puts in hours every day.

I'll post the full list in the above news item. That might be a fun thing to do at the end of each month.

 

[myscha_sleddog]

His reviews are thorough and honest. I seriously doubt he's planning on back channeling in diabolical ways. I can't speak for the guy, but think he's trying to see if he can earn a living doing what he loves. I think that's great. PnP games need more of this.

There really isn't an IGN or PC Gamer for tabletop game journalism.Any steps to get closer to that is good for all. Plus as a former Coburg resident, anyone near Bamberg and Nuremberg that loves RPGs is cool in my book

 

[Morrus]

His reviews are thorough and honest. I seriously doubt he's planning on back channeling in diabolical ways. I can't speak for the guy, but think he's trying to see if he can earn a living doing what he loves.

I agree. I did mention this to him on his Facebook discussion, and suggested that the best way for a publisher to support his efforts is to spread the word of the Patreon campaign rather than paying him directly. That's what I've decided to do - news posts like this which help draw a little bit of attention to his Patreon.

There really isn't an IGN or PC Gamer for tabletop game journalism. Any steps to get closer to that is good for all.

I know I'm not very good at it (in fact, I'm downright poor at it), but I do my best!