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Locus: Jalston – A Player’s View of a Large Town
By Glenn Dean, Staff Reviewer d20 Magazine Rack
Sizing up the Target
Locus: Jalston – A Player’s View of a Large Town is an eight-page PDF release from Mark Clover at Creative Mountain Games. Locus-Jalston provides player information about the town where CMG’s initial adventures are set. Download cost is $1.
First Blood
It is the first in a series of complementary player-GM products from Creative Mountain Games. The Locus series of products will provide player information about a setting, while the Focus series of products will provide the GM with the game statistics and additional background material for the same location.
Locus: Jalston provides all the information a player might want for adventuring in the town of Jalston on the World of Revloc – CMG’s campaign setting and the town where the adventure The Whispering Woodwind begins. The supplement provides information on the various quarters of the city and includes a full-color, full-page map of the town. Sixty-seven separate areas are detailed, providing the sorts of things a character would know about an adventuring town – good places to shop, where to get an ale, and who the important personalities are. Also included is a price list for the variety of items available in the Bazaar, encompassing most of the routine items from Core Rulebook I.
Critical Hits
This is a great product for players and GM’s alike. For the player, it provides just enough information to generate some great role play – your character will be able to know the sorts of things he would if he grew up in the town. Jalston has a gritty, Middle Ages feel to it – no in-your-face magic shops here, though there is the occasional wizard, elf, or dwarf.
Though not intended as a GM product, as a GM I find this an invaluable tool – I could run several game sessions directly from the information presented, creating my own plot hooks and generating stats for Jalston’s citizens as needed. You could plop this town down in just about any corner of your campaign world and be ready to run.
Critical Misses
If you’re looking for a fully stated-out town, you might want to wait and pick up the Focus: Jalston product, as this is intended for players, and not as a ready-to-run GM setting, though a creative GM can certainly us it that way.
Coup de Grace
Locus: Jalston only gets scored down for its minimal mechanics – again, that’s not the point of this product. As a tool to add some detail and flavor to a town setting, that can get players and GM’s on the same page for some town based adventures – this is the best $1 you can spend in gaming!
To see the graded evaluation of this product and to leave comments that the reviewer will respond to, go to Fast Tracks at www.d20zines.com.
By Glenn Dean, Staff Reviewer d20 Magazine Rack
Sizing up the Target
Locus: Jalston – A Player’s View of a Large Town is an eight-page PDF release from Mark Clover at Creative Mountain Games. Locus-Jalston provides player information about the town where CMG’s initial adventures are set. Download cost is $1.
First Blood
It is the first in a series of complementary player-GM products from Creative Mountain Games. The Locus series of products will provide player information about a setting, while the Focus series of products will provide the GM with the game statistics and additional background material for the same location.
Locus: Jalston provides all the information a player might want for adventuring in the town of Jalston on the World of Revloc – CMG’s campaign setting and the town where the adventure The Whispering Woodwind begins. The supplement provides information on the various quarters of the city and includes a full-color, full-page map of the town. Sixty-seven separate areas are detailed, providing the sorts of things a character would know about an adventuring town – good places to shop, where to get an ale, and who the important personalities are. Also included is a price list for the variety of items available in the Bazaar, encompassing most of the routine items from Core Rulebook I.
Critical Hits
This is a great product for players and GM’s alike. For the player, it provides just enough information to generate some great role play – your character will be able to know the sorts of things he would if he grew up in the town. Jalston has a gritty, Middle Ages feel to it – no in-your-face magic shops here, though there is the occasional wizard, elf, or dwarf.
Though not intended as a GM product, as a GM I find this an invaluable tool – I could run several game sessions directly from the information presented, creating my own plot hooks and generating stats for Jalston’s citizens as needed. You could plop this town down in just about any corner of your campaign world and be ready to run.
Critical Misses
If you’re looking for a fully stated-out town, you might want to wait and pick up the Focus: Jalston product, as this is intended for players, and not as a ready-to-run GM setting, though a creative GM can certainly us it that way.
Coup de Grace
Locus: Jalston only gets scored down for its minimal mechanics – again, that’s not the point of this product. As a tool to add some detail and flavor to a town setting, that can get players and GM’s on the same page for some town based adventures – this is the best $1 you can spend in gaming!
To see the graded evaluation of this product and to leave comments that the reviewer will respond to, go to Fast Tracks at www.d20zines.com.
