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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2010701" data-attributes="member: 18387">The label on the cover prompted me to purchase this PDF book. I've been fond of the Phil Phoglio 'Sex in D&D' comics and thought I would get a cheap laugh.  What I got instead was a decent look at various aspects of sex in D&D. Definitely with a light tone to it but there actually was some solidly useful material there...and some stuff that was pure off-color humor. It delivers a good coverage to the role-playing topic of temptation, the cost to the one who gives into it and the cost to those about you. The Positive effects posable as well as the look at how a 'Blue Mage' (A practitioner of the erotic arts) fits into the world around them.The look at the schools of magic and how they break down into sexual pursuits is well done and amusing giving a Games Master and players several ideas (some better than others) for a mage to play around.The erotic spells are imaginative and humorous in slant though there is a mix for the serious *ahem* blue mage. From being able to actually see everyone naked (not just imagine it) to conjure up your own magical nighttime companion it has the bases covered.The plane of Lust section is a weak spot. Its a running joke that's given 4 pages. Poorly conceived and executed they it adds very little to the book. The prestige classes section addresses how the blue mage fits into your fantasy city setting. Each a 5 level class. The classes aren't terribly underpowered giving unique abilities but allowing spellcasting to continue to progress.The Agony Mage, the master of aching hearts, gossip, 'special' problem solvers. Not very useful in a campaign that travels they would make excellent NPC's or a PC in a single city game.The Mystic Pimp, well its all in the name, what more needs to be said?  Though they do give him some interesting abilities.The Seducer, A bit overpowered if you include sexuality in your game it isn't totally appropriate for PCs. Now if a Succubus needed a class...Peeping Scryer, again its class title sums it up. A master scryer he could actually be quite useful.The naughty skills section works smoothly giving logical adaptations for existing skills and feats. Some of them are easily adaptable to any game and quite useful.The magic items section varies from slapstick to silly, with the Flattering enchantment for armor my own favorite. Now you too can be cheesecake with little clothing but good armor! The creatures section doesn't have anything terrifically useful in there but its good for a laugh. Perhaps you could throw one at the players just for amusements sake sometime...but in general it is a fluff/joke section.The art bears special attention, it is all recycled as near as I can tell from other products. Disappointing but I suppose with a project like this budget was very tight. I would recommend getting it for the amusements sake and for the few tidbits that shine through. Also if you are trying for a more gritty game some of the concepts on how magic might be corrupted by desire will prove valuable.  Even though the weak spots are very weak I am still rating it at Average because of the price and overall quality.</blockquote>

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