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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 1824984" data-attributes="member: 5515">Disclaimer: I was one of the few people who liked Penumbral Pentagon - Bruce Baugh filled in blanks giving out practically ready to run module complete with statblocks, fighting tactics, locales and twisted philosophy... the kind of ideology people find their lives worth sacrificing for.Admittedly, PP failed to improve obvious flaws of Penumbral Pentagon organization (weak prestige class, a few mechanical issues, a heresy a bit too obvious). However these weak points are easily fixed. And there is a problem with some of the maps being a bit difficult to read (still, I could read with once a looked at the for some time).7/10.HORNSAW: FOREST OF BLOODThe good: you get to play in an eeevil forest. The elves are tattooed and insane, there are bad, bad necromancers about, mutated monstrosities left after the war and a major center of druid worship.The bad: some items are not to everyone's liking (double scythe, anyone?), too many times authors skip over important aspects (not enough information on manifestations of elven insanity... in other words, we are told they are different, but the differences are not really fleshed out).The ugly: And as usual, one can have problems with prestige class design (fortunately, Hornsaw fares better than some of more recent products).6/10.CALASTIA: THRONE OF THE BLACK DRAGONThe good: it's a Roman empire with a monarchy instead of republic, i.e. an evil kingdom bent on conquest with a loyal citizens, who support their despot because the guy knows how to take care of his PR image and how not too oppress people.The bad: there are major disprepancies with regard to established and official time lines. In other words, its history section is to be treated as an attempt to falsify history by Calastian historians.The ugly: none. Justin Achilli wrote an excellent, if a little bland supplement. Also, I'm a bit of a crunch guy, and I would really like skip information on some story seeds in favor of a detailed locale or a short writeup of an organization (complete with statblocks). 7/10.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Regards,Ruemere</blockquote>

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