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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rooksknight" data-source="post: 2009452" data-attributes="member: 7718">Death: Gaurdian of the gate is a book covering the death domain from Natural 20 Press. THe book is very well put together and a very easy read.For those of you who like art the book is filled with nice appealing black and white art that only add to the mood of the book.The cover is the best peice of art work in the book and I really like it. Summary: This book deals with the Death Goddess Lady Pale and her church. The book is well organized, nice layed out and in depth. It provieds a lot of useful infromation of how a chruhc shouldbe organized within a fantasy world. A nice feature of the book is that it feels like you are being talked to instead of reading a dusty tomb somewhere. This effect allones adds alot to the character of the chruhc and the way the book comes across.THe book starts off by giving us the origin of the goddess and how she took over from the former god of death. Her origion story adds alot of flavor to the rest of the book as well does the introduction story.The real meat and potatoes of this book comes over the next three chapters where it discusses the church indepth.Chapter2: This chapter is dedicated to the Preisthood. It starts us off with the stats for the Lady Pale. Then it progresses onto everything that one possible needs to know about the church of the Lady Pale. It goes on about everything from age , the ranks and heirarchy of the  church (A Point I feel that is missing from the the WOTC books.),  and the holy powers of the church. This chapter also provides 2 prestige classes.Chapter 3: This chapters fgoes over the various mental attiudes of the members of the chruch. This helps to flesh out the beggining of a very real chruch. To me this allows the player to have a very real idea nad under stnad on what and how their character should interact with the world around them. The views it covers are: Drugs, art, language, music, entertainment, communication, and education. The discussion of these topics really add to the beilievablity of tthe rleigion and doesnt make it take a back burner. Chapter 4: THis chapters houses 9 new pretiges classes which gives pcs alot to offer in the way of choice. I am a big fan of the prestige class system but something i found lacking was the variety for dieties. There are certian rolles that each one fills and this adds alot to the strong backbone already built up by the book. My favorite of the prestige classes is the Sisterhood, a group of women warrior mages dedicated to the Lady pale. This chapter also discuss how the other classes fit into the scope of the church. The classes in this area are unique and diverse and add alot of flavor to the book.Chapter 5: Discusses magickal items and what kinds of objects that are important to the church. There are several intresting items to be found here. It also continas the holy symbol for the Lady pale. It also goes into items that are use in rituals.Chapter6:  Rituals Myths and legends.This section of the book only builds on the information already presented to us by the first few chapters. It covers such important areas as rituals, when to pray for spells, festivals. It also gives us legend which only make the church even more realistic. It provides the information on the Breath of Pale- the highest rank person in the church, as well as several other heroes.Chapter 7<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />ersonas And MagicThis chapter discusses the magic withing the churhc and presents 13 new and useful spells. It hasa few spells that add alot of power to the weak selection of combat spells for clerics. Raven's Arrow is a useful spell and I can see it being useful even in later levels and maybe into epic.This chapter also provides a nice section of the manifestion of spells and how to bless holy water. I find this a very nice touch.Chapter 8: This chapter contians a nice short story about the lady pale.CHapter 9: This chapter contina hymn.These are both excellent additons giving us a nother side to the realistic view of the church.Chapter 10: This chapter while short contians important information about the Great Library ( home of the LAdy Pale) and the Book of Days- the book that has a chapter for the life of each bieng.All around good book, The Lady Pale is now the Death goddess for my next campaign.I will be using this book as a model for the write-up of other deities in my homebrewed worldFor the Price you cannot beat this book. In my mind this should be how every religion based book should be.A note about the origional post: I am not trying to shameless plug the product. However I feel this is a product that I should tell others about. I hope this revision helps. This is my first review of any product whatsoever.</blockquote>

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