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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halifax" data-source="post: 2009453" data-attributes="member: 16242">Death: Guardian of the Gate is a sourcebook which deals with the Death domain.  It does this by using an example goddess called "The Lady Pale" (that's the gal on the front cover, I presume).  The book has lots of mechanics stuff - classes, spells, items etc., plus lots of background material.  I know that some poeple don't like much prose in their books, but after Green Ronin's (apparent - I haven't actually got it yet!) fleshed out churches and religions in Book of the Righteous, I think it's pretty obvious that the clerical end of the stick really does need fleshing out.  All too often, a cleric is forced into a narrow straitjacket, and this book helps you to make sure your cleric is unique, with a fully fledged religion, beliefs and church.  The crunchy materal looks plenty good - I haven't tested it yet, though (only got the book yesterday).  It contains a whole slew of Death domain flavored prestige classes, a chapter on magic items and relics (and herbs), and a chapter on spells, blessings and so on.There are also "True Rituals" (I'm not sure if these are a new idea or if they've appeared in another d20 product.  They do ring a bell, though). The rituals include marriage rituals, death rituals etc.  For example, the marriage ritual binds two people together allowing them to suffer each other's wounds, and the funeral ritual prevents necromancers and other undead beasties from interfering after death - the victim cannot be raised as a ghoul or anything.    Each ritual actually includes the *words* and the procedure - which really helps to make these campaign events real!You also get other cool odds and ends - a hymn, some myths and legends and other stuff which helps to make the whole faith seem "real" and not just a character class who can heal, which is what the cleric tends to be!As tends to be the case, this Natural 20 Press product looks beautiful!  Great art, great layout - the whole works!  Nat20 get extra kudos for including two versions - one designed to look pretty, the other designed for printing.In summary, this is a great product.  I'd love to see a whole slew of these books, covering different domains.  Of course, Green Ronin have their BotR, which sounds really good, but I doubt it can devote 70+ pages to EACH domain! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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