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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simon Collins" data-source="post: 2009711" data-attributes="member: 9860">This is not a playtest review.Swords Into Plowshares is a resource for magical weapons for d20 fantasy, in aid of National Geographic Society's Afghan Girls Fund.Swords Into Plowshares is a 36-page 4.08 MB .pdf file costing $5. The format is pretty good as far as printing is concerned with little in the way of graphic margin. The bookmark feature of the .pdf format is not used. The art is a mixture of colour and mono and ranges from poor to superb (note that not every weapon is illustrated). The writing style is on the whole good (unlike the art there seems to be less of a spread of quality despite the number of writers who contributed to the work) and editing is average.The d20 community got together and many well-known names (e.g. Monte Cook, Matt Forbeck, Mike Mearls, Toren Atkinson, and Claudio Pozas) have contributed works to this charity fundraiser. The theme is magic weapons and each weapon gets a fairly detailed history along with its qualities, market price, caster level and other prerequisites, as well as the cost of creation in gp and XP.There are a fascinating array of magic weapons presented in the work. Here are a few examples from the well over 50 offered:* Beshero's Sling Of Thunderstones - transforms any missile fired from it into a thunderstone made from destrachan hide* Danivall's Starblades - ten longswords designed to be wielded by paladins of the star-worshipping church of Danivall. Some of the swords have the quality of 'lesserbane' - the weapon gains the +2d6 damage of a bane weapon but not the +2 enhancement.* Dreamblades - a +1 keen bane longsword, whose bane creature can be altered every night during a dream state with the use of a related artifact called the Dream Sphere.* Ogrebreaker and Trollrender, a magically paired greatsword and heavy crossbow that once served two lovers who hunted giants. The lovers killed, the two weapons seek to unite once more with each other in the hands of two new lovers against the hated giantkin.* Weapons Of Sin - seven legendary weapons that magically embody the seven sins.Several of these weapons have the seeds of an entire campaign hidden within their descriptions, or at least a decent adventure. A brief appendix also contains a coule of special qualities - the aforementioned lesserbane, and triarc, weapons that deal 1 point of damage from each of three energy types (e.g. cold/electricity/fire).Conclusion:An inspirational and fascinating resource whose proceeds are donated to a worthwhile charity (for more info on the charity go to http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0909_afghanfund.html). What more can you ask for for $5? If you haven't already done it, go buy this now - it'll be the best $5 for mind and soul you'll pay this year.</blockquote>

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