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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="Crothian" data-source="post: 3474805" data-attributes="member: 232">At time a DM needs something a little quirky or a little odd to get the creativity flowing. There have been many products out there that can do this.  There are even a few series of PDFs that are just ideas and things one can place in their game.  But few are as a strange and I am not sure any are as a sad as the little story elements that are in this PDF.      Strange Places: Hollowed Tree Tower is the first in a new PDF series by Dog Soul publishing.  Deborah Balsam must have a bit of free time on her hands as she wrote this, did all the cartography, and the lay out.  It is a twenty four page PDF half of those being full page full color maps one can print out and use at the gaming table.  The PDF is book marked but I would have liked to see it list more then just the floors and the random encounter table.      This is not an adventure.  It is just a small place for one to explore.  There are no monsters or traps or terrible obstacles one has to get through.  It is a unique place with a simple history that one can basically piece together from the few remaining clues that are left behind.  But it is not the type of product the fully spells everything out.  There are chests in there that it suggests what may be inside but does give definitive answers as what is in there.  In fact the whole little story written here is something that can be completely tossed.  There are two versions of the maps for this place.  The first ones are mapped with the furniture and items the place describes.  The second set is just the rooms empty of all furnishings.      There is a little story to this all though I may have some of the items wrong as I will repeat the book does not spell everything out.  It seems to be the remains and I mean that literally of pair of lovers.  She died first and he devoted himself to her possible before as well as after her death.  There are many items that can foreshadow the events of what happened and some really are quite shocking and in the right group can really provide an emotional response.  This is not a product designed for hack and slash.  It is designed for a group that wants something different from the game.  Strange Places Hollowed Tree Tower is a strange place.  It has a small random encounter table but it is not really designed to serve as a place of combat.  It is a nice and simple place for low level characters to explore.  It is made to be a little bit modular and it is designed so that one can easily toss out the love story they have and insert whatever one wants in its place.  It is a well written site with easy to read and use maps.</blockquote>

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