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Spells of Farming
Spells in fantasy games tend to be about combat first and fore most. It is nice to see products like this one that takes magic and applies it to mundane aspects of the world in this case farming. I like to see things that can be used to expand the way people live in the world and use the rules we see for adventurers to actually enhance their own lives.
Spells of Farming is a book by Red Anvil Productions. The book is written by Emmit Other. It is a small PDF that is only seven pages in length. The book also has no book marks. The layout is rather basic and simple. There is also no art and the cover is also just really basic.
The book is short as only four of the seven pages is actually the spells. There is one spell of each level though no zero level ones. There are even epic ones in here. All of them deal with farming though there are some problems in the mechanics and the strength of the spell. Spells that deal with farming are just not all that strong and really do not need to be the high levels that some of these are.
Bless Crops is the first level spell. It is designed to increase yield of the crops but has the problem of the rules for crop yield not really existing. So, it tries to come up with ways to improve them based on rules someone might be using. It is a nice attempt at dealing with something the rules just really never cover.
Pest Control is a nice third level spell that can actually be used in combat. It deals acid damage to kill vermin but it does enough to be useful as a damaging spell. The spell does not have a cap on it though it probably should.
Create fence is a sixth level spell. It is really useful as it creates a fence though I do not feel it needs to be sixth level.
Create Farm is the ninth level spell and there is a little problem with the size of the farm it creates. A twentieth level caster would create a farmhouse that has two hundred square feet. That is a little or actually a lot on the small side.
Overall the book covers a topic that really has not been touched. They have some good ideas but it really needed a better look at the numbers and the rules they are using. There are also hints and indications these spells come from an origination but there is no discussion on whom or what they are. That type of info could really go to help lengthen and make the book more useful then just a collection of farming spells. Unless one really wants to get this and use it as a foundation to help create and make better farming spells this really is not going to be something people are going to find all that useful.
Spells in fantasy games tend to be about combat first and fore most. It is nice to see products like this one that takes magic and applies it to mundane aspects of the world in this case farming. I like to see things that can be used to expand the way people live in the world and use the rules we see for adventurers to actually enhance their own lives.
Spells of Farming is a book by Red Anvil Productions. The book is written by Emmit Other. It is a small PDF that is only seven pages in length. The book also has no book marks. The layout is rather basic and simple. There is also no art and the cover is also just really basic.
The book is short as only four of the seven pages is actually the spells. There is one spell of each level though no zero level ones. There are even epic ones in here. All of them deal with farming though there are some problems in the mechanics and the strength of the spell. Spells that deal with farming are just not all that strong and really do not need to be the high levels that some of these are.
Bless Crops is the first level spell. It is designed to increase yield of the crops but has the problem of the rules for crop yield not really existing. So, it tries to come up with ways to improve them based on rules someone might be using. It is a nice attempt at dealing with something the rules just really never cover.
Pest Control is a nice third level spell that can actually be used in combat. It deals acid damage to kill vermin but it does enough to be useful as a damaging spell. The spell does not have a cap on it though it probably should.
Create fence is a sixth level spell. It is really useful as it creates a fence though I do not feel it needs to be sixth level.
Create Farm is the ninth level spell and there is a little problem with the size of the farm it creates. A twentieth level caster would create a farmhouse that has two hundred square feet. That is a little or actually a lot on the small side.
Overall the book covers a topic that really has not been touched. They have some good ideas but it really needed a better look at the numbers and the rules they are using. There are also hints and indications these spells come from an origination but there is no discussion on whom or what they are. That type of info could really go to help lengthen and make the book more useful then just a collection of farming spells. Unless one really wants to get this and use it as a foundation to help create and make better farming spells this really is not going to be something people are going to find all that useful.
