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Title: Dungeon Crawl Classics #27 – Revenge of the Rat King Author: Harley Stroh Artists: Leo Winstead, Chuck Whelon, Cliff Kurowski, Brad McDevitt, and Stefan Poag Cartographer: Jeremy Simmons Editor: Joseph Goodman Publisher: Goodman Games “Revenge of the Rat King”,...

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Castle Shadowcrag Written by Wolfgang Baur Open Design System 95 electronic pages PDF format I’ve heard of the patron system before but haven’t heard a ton of feedback. The users quickly pipe up that they enjoy it and there must be some level of success as it’s continued past the...

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I received a copy of Darkwalkers: The Evil Within as a free review copy, and I wasn't quite sure what to expect going in. The primary purpose of the book is to provide advice, mechanics, and support for players who wish to play evil characters, either in The Hunt: Rise of Evil campaign...

A role-playing over combat oriented group's wet dream.

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I give this adventure a solid four star rating, though I'd deduct one star if I were judging it solely as a stand alone adventure which it's obviously not intended to be.

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Advanced d20 Magic is the magic system book from Guardians of Order for their BESM d20 line. The cover shows an aged wizard much like Merlin or Gandalf; a young teenaged kid that could be studying at a fictious magic school ala Harry Potter, and a female Dervish. Advanced d20...

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Dragon Magic Written by Owen K. C. Stephens and Rodney Thompson Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd ISBN: 0-7869-3936-2 160 full color pages $29.99 I had a coupon for 50% off a single book at Half-Price Books. Looking through the shelves over at the old...

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Lands of Mystery World of Warcraft RPG Supplement Published by White Wolf 208 black & white pages $29.99 Lands of Mystery is a counterpoint to Lands of Conflict. While the latter focused on the lands of the east, Lordaeron, Khaz Modan, and Azeroth, this product focuses on Kalimdor....

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Dragons of Faerūn Written by Eric L. Boyd and Eytan Bernstein Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/forgottenrealms 160 full color pages $29.95 Dragons of Faerun is a sourcebook dedicated to bringing events from the fiction line, The Year of the Rogue Dragons...

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Knightly Orders of Ansalon Written by Sean Everette, Nicole Harsch, Clark Valentine and Trampas Whiteman Published by Sovereign Press ISBN: 1-931567-37-9 160 full color pages $34.99 Knightly Orders of Ansalon is an organization sourcebook for the Dragonlance campaign. With 160...

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Welcome to the Serenity RPG’s first adventure Out in the Black. Despite its name the adventure takes place mostly in and around a small mining town. And that’s all I’m going to tell people before giving the normal spoiler warning. This review will ruin the mystery of the module if you...

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Complete Psionic Written by Bruce R. Cordell and Christopher Linsdsay Published by Wizards of the Coast 160 full color pages ISBN: 0-7869-3911-7 $29.99 The Complete Psionic is the one of the only expansion devoted to psionic powers from Wizards of the Coast. Written by the author...

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Cityscape Written by Ari Marmell and C. A. Suleiman Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd 160 full color pages $29.99 Cityscape bills itself an “An Essential Guide to Urban Adventuring.” That’s a pretty big claim to make with resources like the World’s Largest...

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Monster Manual Special Edition Published by Wizards of the Coast 320 full color pages $75.00 The special edition of the Monster Manual brings the last of the 3.5 core rule books to the fold. Like previous special editions in the series, this one has a black leather cover, ribbon...

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Complete Mage Written by Skip Williams, Penny Williams, Ari Marmell, Kolja Raven Liquette Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd ISBN: 0-7869-3937-0 160 full color pages $29.99 The Complete Mage claims to be A Player’s Guide to All Things Arcane. Published by...

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Barrow of the Forgotten King by Ed Stark Barrow of the Forgotten King is a D&D adventure produced by Wizards of the Coast. It consists of a 64-page black & white booklet that describes the adventure, and a separate cardboard cover that has the dungeon's map on its interior. The...

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BARROW OF THE FORGOTTEN KING By Ed Stark Wizards of the Coast product number 959767400 64 pages, $19.95 Standard warning time: This is a review of a D&D adventure, and as such will contain some spoilers about parts of the adventure's plot. (It's kind of hard to write a...

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SUMMARY I'm a d20 guy. I'm not a big fan of silliness or fairytales. The Zorcerer of Zo (ZoZ) was NOT a product aimed at me. But I happened to see it on the front page of RPGNow and the concept intrigued me. It's truly rare (this is the first time it ever happened to me) to find an...

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Complete Mage is a good book that brings a lot of new material to the D&D table. It's funny, but not many books can say that anymore. Some seven years into third edition, there's such a volume of D&D Material out there that many gamers might assume that there's nothing new under the...

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In Short The Zorcerer of Zo (hereinafter “ZoZ”) presents a fantastic world of adventure inspired by the Wizard of Oz, classic fairy tale stories, and animated cartoons. Living toys, talking animals, bumbling wizards, and other characters inhabit a world of adventure where even mundane...

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Iron Crypt of the Heretics is a sequel to the module the Blackguard’s Revenge. It is not necessary though to have that module or to even have run to get a lot of use and a lot of fun out of the Iron Crypt of the Heretics. This is another module I ran and so the review will reflect things...

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Adventures come in all shapes and sizes these days. Goodman Games has an impressive amount of them in the Dungeon Crawl Classic line and they have a nice variety to them. This module is the twelfth in that product line and one that I had the chance to run my own D&D group through. This is...

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The police force is a well known aspect of the modern age. They are rarely though written up for people to play them in an RPG. That is what Blue Chrome does. It does give it a futuristic twist placing the setting in a fictional city that is about five years ahead of us or what I like to...

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(received as a review copy) Darkwalkers: The Evil Within is a PDF supplement that weighs in at 123 pages and retails for $9.99. The main focus of this book is how to play an evil character. The book has a default setting of Gothos, first introduced in, I believe, The Hunt: Rise of...

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Preamble This is an older product (2003), but one I wanted to review it now, because it's perhaps the best example of a product that doesn't seem to be made anymore. Even the company that almost specialized in the genre, Necromancer Games, seems to have ditched it in favor of...

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Product Background Rappan Athuk: Reloaded is a compilation of Necromancer Games' previous Rappan Athuk d20 system modules, combined with some new material, all in a boxed set (388 pages total, spread out in 3 booklets). It's priced at a staggering $75, apparently because it's a...

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Necromancer Games has been one of the biggest publishers of adventure modules for the d20 system. While most of them are fairly generic, they all tend to be set in the game gameworld. This mostly consists of having the same gods and referring to other Necromancer Games modules, but many of...

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Loot 4 Less Volume II: Rods, Staves, and Wands is a short electronic book published by Bargain Book (by way of ID Adventures). The intent of the book is to provide cheap rods, staves, and wands that remain useful through the campaign. The book is written by Owen K.C. Stephens, who has...

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eConic Characters: Human Fighter By Mark Alexander Clover Creative Mountain Games product number cmgehuft 43-page PDF, $7.50 There are a number of products out there providing the busy DM with a series of pregenerated NPCs of specific character classes - I know, because I once took...

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UNHALLOWED BOOSTER PACK Wizards of the Coast product number 95790000A 8 random plastic miniatures, $14.99 Along with my Gargantuan Blue Dragon (see separate review), I also received a single booster pack for the upcoming D&D Miniatures set called Unhallowed. Since these are the...

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D&D ICONS: GARGANTUAN BLUE DRAGON Wizards of the Coast product number 957890000A $39.95 The latest box of Wizards of the Coast review material sent to me was over twice as big as normal, yet weighed about the same. Intrigued, I opened it up - and was introduced to my first D&D...