Endzeitgeist
First Post
DM's excellent review leaves me with not that much to say about this product.
If you're like me and like maps for the players without a map-key, you unfortunately won't get one. Once again, letters in my map (I know, I can just print out the battlegrid-map, but I don't really need the huge map. It would have been nice to have a layer in the pdf to take out the key, especially due to the fact that "D=Egyptian Braziers" is part of the key. Of course, it's easy for the DM to substitute "Egyptian" for "Osirian", "Har'Akiri" or "Khemitian", but I would have preferred the map to leave out the letters.
However, that is nitpicking on the very highest level:
The Emporium is another awesome installment of the EVC-series on par with the "Rogue's Gallery" and the "Intimate Shape Festhall". It features the extra pdf for Europeans (Battle-map in A4) and is even better in some regards:
While the statblocks are as complex and cool as I have come to expect from Rite Publishing, there is more prose (which is a good thing) and there are 10 cursed items and 10 curses (which is even better!). For 2 Bucks. Now that is value.
That being said, I'd also wager it would be possible to use this supplement in CoC games and similar horror settings.
Apart from the lack of a key-less map and the misspelled name of "Leland GAUNT" in the dedication, I have nothing to really complain or even nitpick about, although "Lord Parakeh's Sword was kinda lame in contrast to the other items.
However, I agree with DM: This could have been more, so much more. That's why I want to suggest a future product: "101 Cursed Items from Kavit M. Tor's Emporium of Collectible Curiosities" as a potential future supplement. I'd be sure to buy it. ^^
Conclusion:
Due to the fact that there is no key-less map, I'd tend to gravitate towards 4 stars. But the awesome production value (2 BUCKS!), the quality of the prose, the items and curses and the fact that I will definitely use this over and over again in my Ravenloft group leave me no choice but to give this the full 5 stars. Great job!
P.S.: I like the pun. I'm curious whether my players will get it...
If you're like me and like maps for the players without a map-key, you unfortunately won't get one. Once again, letters in my map (I know, I can just print out the battlegrid-map, but I don't really need the huge map. It would have been nice to have a layer in the pdf to take out the key, especially due to the fact that "D=Egyptian Braziers" is part of the key. Of course, it's easy for the DM to substitute "Egyptian" for "Osirian", "Har'Akiri" or "Khemitian", but I would have preferred the map to leave out the letters.
However, that is nitpicking on the very highest level:
The Emporium is another awesome installment of the EVC-series on par with the "Rogue's Gallery" and the "Intimate Shape Festhall". It features the extra pdf for Europeans (Battle-map in A4) and is even better in some regards:
While the statblocks are as complex and cool as I have come to expect from Rite Publishing, there is more prose (which is a good thing) and there are 10 cursed items and 10 curses (which is even better!). For 2 Bucks. Now that is value.
That being said, I'd also wager it would be possible to use this supplement in CoC games and similar horror settings.
Apart from the lack of a key-less map and the misspelled name of "Leland GAUNT" in the dedication, I have nothing to really complain or even nitpick about, although "Lord Parakeh's Sword was kinda lame in contrast to the other items.
However, I agree with DM: This could have been more, so much more. That's why I want to suggest a future product: "101 Cursed Items from Kavit M. Tor's Emporium of Collectible Curiosities" as a potential future supplement. I'd be sure to buy it. ^^
Conclusion:
Due to the fact that there is no key-less map, I'd tend to gravitate towards 4 stars. But the awesome production value (2 BUCKS!), the quality of the prose, the items and curses and the fact that I will definitely use this over and over again in my Ravenloft group leave me no choice but to give this the full 5 stars. Great job!
P.S.: I like the pun. I'm curious whether my players will get it...
