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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 2009859" data-attributes="member: 224">A review of Encyclopedia Divine: Fey Magic - Dreaming the Reverieedited by Ian Sturrock, Mongoose PublishingISBN: 1-903980-30-5MSRP: $14.95Soft-cover, folio/perfect bound, 64 pgs, tiny TOC, no indexWhy'd I buy it?After enjoying Mongoose's other "Encyclopedia Divine" series offering: Shamans - The Call of the Wild, and finding myself in need of mechanics on dreams and the Fey, I decided to give this book a try.  Given my present opinion of the book, I'm unsure if I'd buy it "all over again".OverviewThis book describes how faerie magic works.  That's really all this book has to offer; it's not a "Compleate" book on Fey or elves.  The system presented is fun, has a "dangerous" flavor, and complete game mechanics.....but it takes a serious amount of time to digest and understand, and I imagine only experienced gamers with their own home-brew world would be able to use it.One note on the "art":  The art is well drawn, if not particularly relevant to the text.  And as a red-blooded American male, my first thought was, "Whoa!  Better not have this book open when my significant other happens by...."  I went through and counted all of the nubile and buxom essentially-naked pictures of women in this book.  The total? 22.  That's over 1 per three pages!  Move over, Angelina Jolie calendar!  This one's gettin' tacked up on the wall!  I wonder if this gives the Slayer's Guide to Amazons (another Mongoose publication) a run for it's money?  :^OFey Magic: The SourceThese are some great ideas for the source of Fey magic, and are linked tightly to the RW mythology surrounding the fey.  I enjoyed the treatment, and it certianly was dangerous.  However I found, after I was finished, that I'd have to change alot of things around to include this stuff.  I'd imagine that it would be even more difficult to include this in the standard 3e D&D cosmography (The Great Wheel).Moreover there are some serious balance issues with the magic that PCs would use, as presented.  Although there is plenty of room for mishap and error (thus: danger!?), there is also plenty of room for abuse.  Without tight control and plenty of role-playing, this could get way out of hand.  Hey, role-playing is good stuff...but mainwhile, what do the other PCs do.....??******************************************Conclusion<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Production: 3 - Average.  No index, and a poor binding.  I really dislike the margin-pattern they're using for this Encyclopedia Divine series.  Font size, headers, and paragraph spacing is good.  Tables are good and clean. Art:  4 - Good.  The art work quality is average, and the topicality is poor (that is, the picture on a page has little to do with the content on that page).  But it deserves a "good" rating because...well, because....(blushes) Hey, I like the subject material, okay?!  Let's just leave it at that........   :^) Game Mechanics: 2 - Poor.  Game balance is not good without serious help from an experienced 3e D&D DM.  Role-playing should not be the primary factor balancing a new rule-set. "Cool" Factor: 4 - Good.  Plenty of good ideas here that can be used to generate a fey realm.  And the artwork really evokes the image of fey in my....wait, I already talked about the naked women, didn't I?</li> </ul>Overall: 3 - Average.  This book needed some serious play-testing before release.</blockquote>

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