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Player’s Companion – Getting More Out of Your PHB is a sourcebook from Technomancer Press. While not a d20 or OGL product, this book is meant to supplement your PHB, filling in the blanks of what that book didn’t deal with. Inside the first page is a note talking about the Technomancer...

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The Critonomicon is a sourcebook of critical hits (and fumbles) from Technomancer Press. Ninety-four pages long, the book is thermal bound between a pair of orange covers. The front cover depicts generic figures being killed in rather amusing ways (the majority of which seem to be fumbles)....

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Red Hand of Doom An Adventure For Characters of Levels 6-12 Written by Richard Baker and James Jacobs Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd ISBN 10: 0-7869-3938-9 128 full color pages + maps $24.95 Red Hand of Doom isn’t quite a ‘mega’ adventure like say Return...

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You Gotta Have Character A Review By DT Butchino First and foremost, “You Gotta Have Character” is a sourcebook for Hero Games’ excellent Fifth Edition Hero System … though the contents could easily be used to inspire adventures and non-player characters in other systems. Let me also...

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Monster Manual IV By Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Matthew Sernett, Eric Cagle, Andrew Finch, Christopher Lindsay, Kolja Raven Liquette, Chris Sims, Owen K.C. Stephens, Travis Stout, JD Wiker, and Skip Williams Wizards of the Coast product number 953767200 224 pages,...

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I think the general Grappling rules are nicely cleaned up by these ruleset. However (and you knew it was coming...) I was looking for a little more meat. Personally, I have problems with several of the systems in 3.5, and the hand-to-hand combat clean up, while fine in and of itself, I...

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Fat Dragon EZ Tiles: Dungeon Set 1 & 2 This series are game aides suited for a DM who wants to map with increased visual presentation without having to draw out the map. The series provides pdfs of the dungeon environment (including caverns). You choose a basic image like a corridor, room...

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Grappling for Beginners, by Russell Morrissey (AKA Morrus) Caveat: Morrus did not give me a free copy, nor did he admit to stealing my ideas from a HR thread that got lost in the crash… really it did! :lol: However, he is bribing for reviews with comp copies of his next book, which I...

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I had a long introduction about the PHB 2 all written up, but decided to scrap it. Whether or not the PHB 2 is a "Splat book" along the lines of the "Complete X" series, or a game rules expansion similar to Unearthed Arcana is for you to decide. I would suggest that it is a...

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Runequest, from the moment I first discovered it, became my game. I was a thirteen year-old D&D player in 1985 when I first picked up Runequest in 1985 and from that moment forward, my AD&D books began to gather dust. As I grew up and became more sophisticated in my thinking about...

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Mansion of Shadows Modules seem to be on a come back trail. There was a time when everyone seemed to be playing the same modules and there was a lot of fun talking to others that play the same game knowing that the modules were mostly common. These days with the industry spread so...

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The Iron Crypt of the Heretics DCC 12.5 Written by Harley Stroh Published by Goodman Games www.goodman-games.com http://www.goodmangames.com/50125preview.php ISBN: 0-976808595 24 b & w pages $10.99

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Monster Manual IV Developed by Stephen Schubert, Mike Mearls, Matthew Sernett, Jesse Decker, Andrew Finch Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wziards.com/dnd ISBN 10: 0-7869-3920-6 224 full color pages $34.95 Before I start my review, let me tell you what I think a Monster...

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Fails, Maces, and Morningstars is EN Publishing's sixth 'complete arsenal sourcebook,' and a lot of their work is top-notch. When I got my reviewer's copy of this, I was optimistic (I always like to try out new stuff!). The zip file for this product contains only the pdf, nothing more....

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Really neat magic items can set the tone for a D&D game--after all, a cool character has a cool weapon. What is Indiana Jones without his whip or Zorro without his sword? In a D&D game, weapons are all about the weapon abilities. A cool weapon ability can define your character. The Le games...

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Please note that I have received a complimentary copy of this product for the purpose of writing a review. The What, Who, and How Much The Man-At-Arms Advanced Class comes to us as an 8-page PDF for either modern or fantasy d20 rulesets as part of the Modern Medieval line by Sword’s...

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Please note that I have received a complimentary copy of this product for the purpose of writing a review. The What, Who, and How Much The Mercenary Advanced Class is a seven-page PDF for either modern or fantasy d20 rulesets, part of the Modern Medieval line being developed by...

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Fields OF Ruin Written by Richard Pett Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd ISBN-10: 0-7869-3908-7 16 b & w pages full color battlematts $14.95 Fields of Ruin continues the Fantastic Locations series. Each adventure contains two double-sided battle maps for...

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LEGENDS OF SORCERY: GEMS By Charles Rice RPGObjects product number RPO4501 16-page PDF, $2.50 Legends of Sorcery: Gems is a short little PDF that expands onto the spellcasting material from Legends of Sorcery (see my separate review on that product). As such, you'll need to have...

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Rage Feats, published by Reality Deviant Publications and written by Christopher Urinko, is a collection of nearly 80 feats that are built around the Rage class ability. This 20 page color PDF also includes 3 feats specifically for the Whirling Frenzy variant class ability and 10 for the...

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Template Booster The Open Game License presents a way for writers to use items from different sources but few do that. The possibility and creativity that can unlock in the many cool templates and combine items that might not easily fit together. Template Boosters is one of those...

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Hellspike Prison Written by Matthew Sernett Published by Wizards of the Coast www.wizards.com/dnd ISBN: 0-7869-3848-X Fantastic Locations 16 b & w pages 2 double sided full color maps $14.95

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Format: 53 page PDF (47 content pages 35,000 content words), Price: $6.49 Publisher: Red Moon Games Author personally known by reviewer (but no free review copy) Overview The Cult of Fane is part one of a three part epic story-arc, the Fane trilogy. Each part being a...

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Fireball for me was always the quintessential magic user spell. Of course we call them Wizards now but an arcane caster was not truly an arcane caster until they had Fireball. And it was used all the freaking time. Fireball was always the spell that meant power to us and now it is nice to...

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Truth and Justice Super hero games seem to be coming out in a little more frequencies. Perhaps I am just noticing them more but there have been some very interesting and higher quality games in the genre in the past few years. The most popular seems to be Mutants and Masterminds by...

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Cities & Settlements Written by Jeff Ibach, Jim Sharkey, Philips and Cheryl Vanmater Miner, and Edgar Rosero Published by Troll Lord Games http://www.trolllord.com/newsite/d20/1014.html ISBN: 1-931275335 120 b & w pages $19.95 Cities & Settlements is one of the last...

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(This is one of my reviews that got eaten in the server crash. So it's not new, just hadn't gotten around to re-adding it until now) Introduction: While dungeon crawling is not an integral part of role-playing, it has largely gone hand in hand with it since the beginning, as the name...

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What is it? Heart of Shadow is a 64 pages supplement for the Midnight Campaign setting written by Iain “Shadowfane” J. Borgan and Eric “Kane” Olson, both former fans of the setting that entered the RPG freelancing out of love for the world of Aryth. The book is published by Fantasy...

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COMPLETE PSIONIC By Bruce R. Cordell and Christopher Lindsay Wizards of the Coast product number 953677200 160 pages, $29.95 Complete Psionic is the latest of the hardcover "class books" from Wizards of the Coast, following Complete Adventurer, Complete Arcane, Complete Divine,...

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I bought this book for two simple reasons: It was the last Miniature's Handbook on the shelf (and, the clerk assured me, once it sold, there wouldn't be any more, since the book was out of print), and because I was dying to find out just what the Marshal was capable of. Really, this book...