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Monsters are always a fun product to read for and d20 game. But these days I literally have two dozen monster books on my book shelves, a number of PDF ones, and two really good books for creating and modifying monsters. With all that already on the market it takes a new approach or...

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CITYSCAPE By Ari Marmell and C. A. Suleiman Wizards of the Coast product number 953867200 160-page hardcover, $29.95 Cityscape is the fourth in Wizards of the Coast's "Environment" series, following Frostburn, Sandstorm, and Stormwrack. It's kind of an odd duck, too, as it...

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Lost Temple of the Valiant This is a review of an adventure. Please do not read if you are going to be a player in the adventure as the review will have spoilers in it. Lost Temple of the Valiant is nice low level adventure set in the Kingdoms of Kalamar. However, it can easily...

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DCC 31 The Transmuters Last Touch As a module review there will be spoilers. So please do not read this if you expect to ever play the module. It is a fun module, and that?s all a player needs to know. The Dungeon Crawl Classics are a series of modules by Goodman Games. They are a...

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Behind the Spells Blade Barrier It is nice to see a bit of detail brought to the general spells that have been used for a long time in the game. Behind the Spells is a series of small PDFs that does just that. It takes a single well known spell per issue and gives it background and...

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Artifacts of Legend There has been a few different ways of balancing out artifacts. Artifacts either never seem to have enough power being out shined by simple magical items. Or there is a cost that is just too cumbersome and too steep for most players to want to bother with them....

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Ars Lingua The D&D game does languages lousily. But it can work for people that do not really want languages to be a challenge. It is extremely easy for people to be fluent in languages and most characters will start out being able to speak many languages. There is no distinction...

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(received as a review copy) This is a 437 page hardcover book. The MSRP is $34.95 US. The mechanics in this book, at least to this reviewer, are new, and may take some time getting used to the setup. Fantasy Imperium is listed as an “Interactive Storytelling Game,” where the emphasis is...

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Thanks to the publisher/author who sent me a complimentary/review copy of Unorthodox Witches. Before getting any further into this review, I must say that I no longer play/run D&D 3.5, so have no real need for a witch classes book. Then, I feel that the d20 market has been saturated with...

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E.N. Critters, Volume 1: Ruins of the Pale Jungle E.N. Critters is E.N. Publishings line of monster books, presenting several new monsters based on a geographical theme and includes counters for the creatures in the back. Now, I'm a sucker for monster books so I was very interested in...

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101 Feats is a mixed bag. With 101 Feats, not every one needs to be a solid hit or have application in all campaigns. The author correctly notes at the very beginning that feats are just another one of those little areas where the Game Master should be prepared to say no and that what works...

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SCOURGE OF THE HOWLING HORDE By Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel Wizards of the Coast product number 953827400 32-page softcover, $14.95 STANDARD SPOILER WARNING: This review is about an adventure, so if you're a DM, read on. If, however, you're a player whose DM might be considering having...

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EXPEDITION TO CASTLE RAVENLOFT By Bruce R. Cordell and James Wyatt Wizards of the Coast product number 953937200 224-page hardback, $34.95 Expedition to Castle Ravenloft is the newest iteration of the original Ravenloft module from the AD&D 1st Edition days, which spawned not only...

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When I read about the new Savage Tide Adventure Path, I was entranced. What could be better than an adventure that includes both pirates and demons? I needed a ship which could be both docked and sailing, as well as be easily modified to act as multiple ships. I thought back to a website I...

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The latest in Creative Mountain Games's eConic series of pay 'n' play products is The eConic Halfling Rogue. As with the previous book, this is a zipped file with twenty-one PDFs - one with the cover, OGL, and table of contents, and the other twenty being character sheets statting out a...

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Note: I received a review copy of this book. Also, this review contains spoilers. Dawning Star: Operation Quick Launch, the main setting book for Blue Devil Games's setting of the same name, focused mainly on the planet of Eos, and was, I thought, remarkable for its intimacy and...

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The eConic Human Fighter is the first product in the eConic line of products from Creative Mountain Games. Long a company known for publishing products designed to directly aid the GM (and the players) with running the game - instead of adding yet more crunch - the eConic Human Fighter is...

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Panty Explosion Panty Explosion is a game that I am not the intended target for. The game is about Japanese Psychic Schoolgirls. I understand that this is a genre within the anime, manga, and live action movies Japan has. I am mostly unfamiliar with all of that. I read list of...

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Alien Invasion is a sourcebook for D20 Modern providing material for running games featuring an alien invasion theme, popular in many 90s (and earlier) entertainment. Alien Ivasion is written by Michael Tresa (author of numerous D20 Modern SF interperetations) and published by Reality...

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Herein you will find my first review for ENworld. I would like to preface this by stating I was sent a complimentary copy of this book. Contents of the Zip: Neo Paladins: The Martyr comes in a zip file containing two PDF copies, one for on-screen viewing and one for printing....

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Bulldogs With the whimper of the death of Star Wars d20 and the new version of the popular Babylon 5 game I have found myself looking and interested in other sci fi games. Dawning Star is of course out there and I reviewed that so now I am moving on to Bulldogs!. Bulldogs is...

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Review of Book of Vile Darkness The Book of Vile Darkness is Wizards book on everything evil. It comes with a Mature Audiences Only warning. I found only some of the topics had gone overboard. Most of the book deals with them in a very mature and well-handled manner. There are many themes...

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Bestiary of Krynn It is the art. I think that this book might just have the best art I have seen in a role playing book. My one complaint about the art is that many of the pictures need to be bigger, they are that good. This is a monster book though and not an art book although another...

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Advanced Players Guide I have always felt the need to make the game my own. That means adding my own little twist on thing, my own touches and tweaks to the rules to make the game serve how I want to play. This philosophy has helped making my personal games feel different from...

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There are three things I must note at the beginning of this review. First, this is my first review on ENWorld. Second, I received a complimentary copy of this book. Third, I’m motivated to review this product by the offer of another free book for doing so. Upon receiving 17 Plants as...

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Unorthodox Bards is a 47-page PDF from The Le Games which presents new options for bards. It includes five variant-bard core classes, a pair of prestige classes, and a number of magic items, including one supposed artifact. A pair of appendices reprint the bard's spell list and class table....

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Players Guide to Castlemourn This is rather exciting. New settings are always fun and seeing one from the beginning by Ed Greenwood, one of the creators of the Forgotten Realms, is something I look forward to doing. I am a big fan of settings as I think they are the most creative...

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Behind the Spells Dancing Lights Welcome to Dancing Lights of the Behind the Spells series. This is a series of PDF by Bret Boyd and published by Ronin Arts. The series takes a look at certain spells and makes them more then just a spell. They answer the question of the history of...

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The Pure In the world of the Werewolf there is always something hunting you. Predator and prey is a common theme and the Pure are the werewolves that prey on all other werewolves. But it is not that simple. The Pure differ from the Forsaken in ideology. They are from Father Wolf...

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The Kingdom of Kalamar is a very rich and detailed setting. It has lively descriptions through out the many books and the setting as a whole is very dramatic. This PDF is an updated version of the old Players Guide to Kalamar. It updates it to the 3.5 rule set and covers everything that was...