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Loot 4 Less Volume 3
I think it is a bit rare of me to review three books all in the same series. But Loot 4 Less has been the type of fun and easy to use PDFs that I enjoy reviewing. The series features magical items that are creative and bargain priced at under twenty five hundred gold pieces. They are great for the lower level games that are the most common people play as well as perfect for people that prefer a low magic game but still want creative and fun magical items. Nothing in the series that I have seen would I call a problem. And there is plenty of pricing information that serve as great sidebars to understand how the costs of things are come up with when they differ from the DMG guidelines.
Loot 4 Less Volume 3 is of course the third book in this series. They are all written by Owen K.C. Stephens and it even looks like some of the ideas in the books went into the Magical Item Compendium. The PDf is sixteen pages long and it is nicely book marked. The book has no art in it but does come in a PDF and RTF formats for easy printing.
The PDF is all about the clothing. There are magical belt, boots, cloaks, and gloves in the book. There are plenty of side bars that do a great job of explaining some of the prices especially on odd things. For instance there are boots of human kind that gives a +3 bonus to four skills but only one skill may receive the bonus at a time. The DMG guidelines just do not cover that type of thing so the sidebar explains how they came up with the cost. While that is useful there are also some annoying errors. I used the boots of Humankind because in the description they are priced at 2,500gp and in the sidebar they are priced at 2,250gp. With magical items that are priced using non standard ways it is very important to get the prices right or at least to have them agree.
One of the neat thins done here is to give cloaks and boots to the other races instead of just the iconic Cloak of Elvenkind and Boots of Elvenkind. Noner of the half races gets special equipment but all of the full races including orcs do. Many of the items are more utility items. There are the gloves of healing that can identify what kind of disease a person has. There is the swim belt that gives a person the ability to breather water and a swim speed for a short amount of time each day. There are the Bullhide boots that allows a person to push someone back a bit farther with a bulrush. The Girdle of Mule Strength increases a person’s carry capacity
. Loot 4 Less Volume 4 is another good source of magical items. There is a good variety and plenty of neat things to give PCs and NPCs alike. The editing could be a little better but it is otherwise a very fun and creative book of low cost and low powered magical items.
I think it is a bit rare of me to review three books all in the same series. But Loot 4 Less has been the type of fun and easy to use PDFs that I enjoy reviewing. The series features magical items that are creative and bargain priced at under twenty five hundred gold pieces. They are great for the lower level games that are the most common people play as well as perfect for people that prefer a low magic game but still want creative and fun magical items. Nothing in the series that I have seen would I call a problem. And there is plenty of pricing information that serve as great sidebars to understand how the costs of things are come up with when they differ from the DMG guidelines.
Loot 4 Less Volume 3 is of course the third book in this series. They are all written by Owen K.C. Stephens and it even looks like some of the ideas in the books went into the Magical Item Compendium. The PDf is sixteen pages long and it is nicely book marked. The book has no art in it but does come in a PDF and RTF formats for easy printing.
The PDF is all about the clothing. There are magical belt, boots, cloaks, and gloves in the book. There are plenty of side bars that do a great job of explaining some of the prices especially on odd things. For instance there are boots of human kind that gives a +3 bonus to four skills but only one skill may receive the bonus at a time. The DMG guidelines just do not cover that type of thing so the sidebar explains how they came up with the cost. While that is useful there are also some annoying errors. I used the boots of Humankind because in the description they are priced at 2,500gp and in the sidebar they are priced at 2,250gp. With magical items that are priced using non standard ways it is very important to get the prices right or at least to have them agree.
One of the neat thins done here is to give cloaks and boots to the other races instead of just the iconic Cloak of Elvenkind and Boots of Elvenkind. Noner of the half races gets special equipment but all of the full races including orcs do. Many of the items are more utility items. There are the gloves of healing that can identify what kind of disease a person has. There is the swim belt that gives a person the ability to breather water and a swim speed for a short amount of time each day. There are the Bullhide boots that allows a person to push someone back a bit farther with a bulrush. The Girdle of Mule Strength increases a person’s carry capacity
. Loot 4 Less Volume 4 is another good source of magical items. There is a good variety and plenty of neat things to give PCs and NPCs alike. The editing could be a little better but it is otherwise a very fun and creative book of low cost and low powered magical items.
