Counter Pack 4: Eldritch Horrors & Occult Investigators (PDF)
This is another alternative for miniatures. I have seen a lot of these, but this is my first chance to take a look at the guys who really started the counter craze. Fiery Dragon Productions has been putting out different counter packages for a few years now. They have been both highly useful and successful. This is the first of the counter products that have been released in electronic format.
This counter product comes in a zip file a little under three megs in size. The pdf when unzipped is also three megs in size. The print release of this are only half pages in size, and the pdf is the same way. It would have been nice to make these full pages as a pdf. The pdf is eighteen pages and costs six dollars. It is a little bit on the expensive side compared to other counter pdf products.
The pdf is more then just counters. It starts with a brief description of an alternative modern earth. The descriptions are very basic but might allow for a DM to start the ground work for a world that would fit these counters. There is a pair of feats for allowing and helping one cast rituals. These spells are very much like the ones presented in the d20 Call of Cthulhu game. The rituals have a draining effect on attributes like the ones presented in CoC. There are new rules for learning spells and they seem like a good alternative for people who want spell casting to be rare and a bit more dangerous then in say d20 Modern.
There are one hundred and twenty five counters presented here. They are creatures that fit a modern day horror campaign and the cast of characters that represent the normal people. Most of the counters are made standard five by five size, but there are a few larger creatures and smaller creatures in the pack. Over all there is a nice mix of reprintable counters. All of them are full color.
The counters presented here are a good alternatives to miniatures for a modern game. There is a nice variety here, the art is well done, and the full color is a good touch. I would have liked to see a little more expansion on the rules presented here, but it lays a nice simple groundwork for a campaign.
