Hornsaw: Forest of Blood. It's good! Very good!

[Nightfall]

In a completely different vein, I just got hornsaw. Let me say the authors, Joseph Carriker and Rhiannon Louve do a splendid job here. I especially loved Daniel Day's cartography and artwork. The book has the kind of "Forest of Mirkwood" feel, for you tolkien fans only with more emphasis on the possibility of change as well as some fun stuff like new plants, new wood types, new weapons, indeed new races and of course old standbys such as new prestige classes, spells, feats and of course monsters. (I think my favorite has to be the witchspider. Great job!) Oh and you also get insider's view in the various factions trying to establish control inside the forest. From the hornsaw elves with their tribes, some following a vegetarian life style, to the infamous necromancers of Glivid Autel and the Dar al Annot, the cabal of hags, sorcerers and others in the service of the Blood Crone. Really if you wanted a forested region and wanted to know what to have in it, this is the book for you. Oh and the random Wilderness Encounter charts in the back ROCK!


So there are my comments. Comments, thoughts, questions?

 

[Bagpuss]

My party are currectly based in and around the Hornsaw Forest and I've been waiting for this book for so long. My only problem now is it probably screws up a lot of the stuff I've already introduced and developed for the area.

Can you give anymore insight as to what's in it?

 

[d20Dwarf]

Forest of Blood!? That's the name of an adventure I've got at Dungeon! I knew Joseph was after something all these years....you bastageeeeeee!!!!!!!

 

[Nightfall]

Well if you had Slitheren, Assathi, Hags, and High Gorgons in there, you're fine. It just adds more about the various groups, the arrangement of places, such as the Border Wood and the Broadreach areas. Plus the location of the Dar al Annot and Glivid Autel. Otherwise very little changed. At least that I can see.

Wil, hey talking to the wrong guy.

 

[Nightfall]

bump for SL goodness and because Hornsaw deserves a thread or two.