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Fellowship of the Dice This is a bit of a change from reviewing RPG books. This is an RPG movie. I have a positive opinion of the film as it is entertaining and informative but it does have some problems with the plot and the characters. I am also not sure who the audience is for...

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Feats by AEG Feats is one of those handy books that really helps keep the backpack light. It is a collection of over a thousand feats from many, many different books. It is done by AEG so does feature feats from their products a little more then some of the other ones. When you look at...

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Darkwalkers: The Evil Within starts with the following introduction: Evil player characters, as a rule, are frowned upon by most role-playing groups. Having an evil character within a group of adventures tends to run contrary to the overall theme and ideals of classic fantasy where the...

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There is something fun with running a module designed for characters just starting out. And not module that I have seen does that better then a this module since it is for zero level characters. They have zero level characters mean a character with one level in an NPC class. And they have...

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At time a DM needs something a little quirky or a little odd to get the creativity flowing. There have been many products out there that can do this. There are even a few series of PDFs that are just ideas and things one can place in their game. But few are as a strange and I am not sure...

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Wolfgang Baur has had this Open Design of his going for a year or so now. I am not all that familiar with how it works or really what all has gone into it. But I will say the result has been pretty impressive. The module that he and the people who support ed it came up is filled...

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Behind the Spells is a series of short PDFs by Ronin Arts. They are all written by Bret Boyd and the series at this point has been completed. Each one take a single spell and gives it depth, history, and greater context to be used in one’s game setting. This one deals with Bless a spell...

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Untapped Potential is an impressive offering from Dreamscarred Press that offers a wide variety of Psionic material. Overall, it is presented is a clean and professional manner. There were a couple of editing mistakes I caught, but only minor things. The artwork isn't spectacular, but...

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DUNGEONSCAPE By Jason Bulmahn and Rich Burlew Wizards of the Coast product number 956847200 160-page hardcover, $29.95 The latest in the "environment" series of books by Wizards of the Coast (previous entries include Frostburn, Sandstorm, Stormwrack, and Cityscape),...

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This is inexpensive collection of versions of monsters found in the Monster Manual but not in the SRD. The monsters fill roughly the same niche as their closed counterparts, but are creatively reimagined, not just rip-offs. Iconic Bestiary: Classics of Fantasy is a nicely laid out...

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As you might guess from the number of this, Dungeon Crawl Classics #0, "Legends are Made, not Born", this is something of a gimmicky adventure. But it's a pretty good gimmick. Characters pretty much have started at 1st level in D&D since the beginning. But in AD&D, in I think...

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Review Title: Dungeon Crawl Classics #0 – Legends are Made, not Born Author: Chris Doyle Artists: Erol Otus (front cover), Jason Edwards (back cover), Ian Armstrong, Friedrich Haas, Jim Holloway, Cliff Kurowski, Brad McDevitt and Stefan Poag (interior art) Cartographer: Jeremy...

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Experts 3.5 NPCs can be very numerous in a campaign. But with the few NPC classes they can start looking a bit all the same mechanically. The Expert class while malleable just does not do enough to showcase the true differences between a school and a blacksmith, or a slaver and a...

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Chapter 1: The map region covers over 700,000 sq miles of terrain of which the Dreadmire swamp covers about a third. The chapter covers an overview of the formation of the swamp and the environments that feed the swamp itself that reads much like a text book in tone and presentation. This in...

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Some days it is just easier to review two small PDFs of a similar theme and voice. That is why one is getting reviews of book of these PDFs done today. A little extra time and a couple of nice books to read really makes the job rather easy. This is the second book in the series and so far...

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Every now and I again I will be reading a blog or post on the net somewhere and it will lead me to review something. There is a lot of stuff out there to be reviewed so occasionally it is up to fate by what I randomly come across that leads to a review. This was not so much fate but...

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Spycraft This is my Rifle Spycraft and other modern games that use modern weapons are only as good as the latest information they have published. There are plenty of new guns and new designs hitting the market in the past decade and it can be tough for a RPG to keep up. That is where...

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Any publisher that has had a product reviewed by John Cooper knows that his attention to detail, especially with stat blocks and game mechanics, is second to none. His reviews are always insightful and offer a publisher not only constructive criticism, but also the chance to actually improve...

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It is always nice to see a product one likes but more importantly to see a pair of companies one likes working together. When I saw Tabletop Games and Necromancer were both involved in this project I knew I just had to get it. It makes it one of those rare books I bought that I review. I...

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If there is one word fantasy gamers hold sacred it would be treasure. One of the most common ways to describe D&D is killing things and taking their stuff. That stuff is obviously treasure and there is never enough of it. And there never seems to be enough of it printed up in books. ...

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Inns can serve as a great place for characters to rest in between adventures or can become an adventure for a well prepared DM. Necromancer has a book of Inns that I like very much and it was not until seeing Unusual Inns that I find a book almost as good. I am a fan of using Inns and...

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In the world of super heroes there are always plenty of bad guys just waiting in line to take of the world. They always have these overly complicated and impossible sounding schemes that always seem to work out for them at least until the heroes arrive. Some try to do something nasty to...

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Props are always a fun part of the game though it can be tough to find a prop that can be used in most games at any time. That is were money comes in. It does not matter what the characters are up they always seem to have money or to be going after more of it. This PDF set is all about...

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Goodman Games was one of the early d20 startups, and like most of them, their products initially revolved around the company's own setting. In their case, it was "Broncosaurus Rex", a setting combining the civil war, steampunk, and intelligent dinosaurs. Although actually quite an...

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Spycraft is the game of modern spies and espionage. It takes the best of the d20 system and adds on rules for easy ways to equip characters with all the latest gadgets and has a great system of feats that give cool abilities. I have always preferred it to d20 modern so when I first got some...

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High Psionics: Psicrystals Expanded (PE) is relatively small supplement that provides new rules and types of psicrystals for players and DM’s alike. With what is quickly becoming the standard for Dreamscarred Press, the production values are top notch. I was very pleased to find my...

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The Behind the Spells series is a solid product line of PDFs that each take a single spell and look at it more closely. They are given a history and shown how other things can be dine with the spell many times creating new rules for the new uses. There are also usually spell variations...

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I enjoy running adventures and it pleases me to be able to run the Dungeon Crawl Classics right along with the Necromancer ones. When one does that the difference in the approach to the writing and creation of the modules really comes into view. The DCC are usually shorter and a little...

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Every now and again a book comes out that has controversy surrounding it. Most of those deal with the topic of the book but every once in a while the controversy is about something else. There is controversy about this book though I will be honest and say I do not understand why. There...

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First off, I would like to note that the production quality in Untapped Potential (UP) is quite good for a 3rd party resource, especially in its first foray into the field. I was pleased to find the PDF version was all bookmarked appropriately. However, I would have liked to see the art...