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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2010680" data-attributes="member: 18387">Requiem for a God by Malhavoc Press    Requiem for a God is an Event Book by Monte Cook, possible the most recognizable name in the d20 market.  An Event Book is simply a single product that covers a campaign-changing event.  The event covered here is the death of a god.      The book is soft bound and 64 pages in length for $12.95.  It was originally released as a pdf.  The layout seems sparse, as there is a lot of white space in the borders.  The art is pretty good, but some of the pieces are reused from else where in the book.  The full color cover is a nice piece by Kieran Yanner of some priests with a glowing box in the foreground.      The book takes on through the process starting with how the god or gods die to what happens to their followers.  It has suggestions for how to handle things like what happens to the body, what happens on the site of the death, and how to involve the players in all of it.  Overall, while I found many of the ideas interesting, I constantly felt that there needed to be more.  There are good ideas, but nothing really awe-inspiring.  Many of these ideas are very much common sense and I think a greater level of detail was needed.      There are rules for what happens to a cleric after his god dies including a variant that allows a cleric to keep at least some of their spell ability.  There are rules for using the blood and body of the god as magical items that give temporary abilities.  Then there are energy wells that are created where the deity dies.  The first prestige class is the Disaffected.  They are devious clerics of either a dead god, or of someone who has lost faith in their god.  There is also the Harvester of Divinity that seek out dead gods to retrieve parts.  There are a couple other prestige classes as well.  They all seem well balanced and decent enough.  There are also new feats that deal with the gods blood and the god’s body.  There are also many new spells, some new magical items and artifacts, some monsters and templates.  As with all of Monte’s stuff , balance should not be an issue with any of this.    Overall, I just found the book lacking.  It’s a fine book, and does the job it sets out to do.  I think it could have gone beyond that.  Some of the pages I feel are wasted as they are filled with NPCs and organizations.  These things just did not seem to fit that well.</blockquote>

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