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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 2009621" data-attributes="member: 1129">Librum CeteriEveryone ElseWritten by Richard Ruthman and Michael S. ThibaultPublished by Ambient Inc.70 pagesSo what is Everyone Else?  It’s a book chocked full of stat blocks for NPCs that fill the ‘common’ roles in your campaign.  The book is broken up into different broad sections with breakdowns of character types found within.  We have In the Shadows, On the Docks, On the Farm of in the Village, In The Woods, On the Jobsite, In the Shop, In the Market, At Your Service, At the Bedside, For the Greater Glory, In the Bureaucracy, At the barracks and in the Castle.  Under For the Greater Glory, you get stats for the Hermit, Missionary and Preacher. Each profession has information on what it does and ideas on how to customize the stats to match your own campaign.  In addition, there is a section, Rules to Remember, that provides you with a quick reminder of important pieces of d20 mechanics.  For bouncer, it’s “Sense motive is checked against DC20 to have a hunch that trouble is brewing.”  It then details a bouncher a level 1, 3, 5, and 7.  One of the most useful parts of the book to me is actually the Appendix that lists the index of professions.I found the book useful but a tad bland.  The writing is functional but doesn’t really give the GM enough tools of his own.  Perhaps it’s just my huge library of books, but if I’m really in need of a ‘commoner’ type of NPC, I can wing it pretty good for the most part.  Other products, like Experts by Skrimish, provide Expert Types which allows the GM to flesh out the NPCs to a much greater detail.  Other products like 1000 Faces provide more details and make the characters more usable right away.I found the book had substandard layout.  My copy, which has its share of typos and spelling errors, has lots of white space, uneven columns, and its share of windows and orphans.  The art involves the use of a lot of woodcuts, which gives the product some class but are used too often, and Juan Navarro, who does several good illustrations that start off several sections like the bar scene heading “In the Shadows”.The book is a good buy for time pressed GMs who don’t feel comfortable winging it.  It’s almost 100% OGC (all the text).  More experienced GMs who want ideas and methodology on how to construct their own NPCs or simply want pregenerated characters and character ideas, might want to see what else is out there before buying Everyone Else.</blockquote>

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