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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2578274" data-attributes="member: 232">Ironics[imager]http://www.rpgnow.com/products/product_5310.jpg[/imager]    NPCs are an essential part of the game.  Books of NPCs are usually helpful for over worked DMs and people that just want to have a few extra characters stated out and ready to go.  The name of the book is a take on the Iconic characters from the PHB but there does not really seem to be any thing ironic about the characters here.      Ironics is a PDF by EN Publishing.  EN Publishing is a well known company known for their PDFs that are really not like this one.  Usually their PDF s area lot better to look at.  This book has no art, standard layout that is designed to be printed and not so much read on the screen though the book does have a nice set of bookmarks.  That makes the book a rather odd one as pictures of the characters here and a more exciting lay out would have been preferred to me.  There are plenty of stat blocks and character that can be gotten from the web, this book does not offer much more then that.      This is a rather plain book.  It offers exactly what one expects: NPCs.  They are done well and there are at least two NPCs per core class.  Fighters have the most with five NPCs for that class.  Everything the characters are created from is from the Player’s Handbook.  So, one will not find other sources used in the creation of these characters.  That is nice since it means that everyone will have the sources for these characters.  However, sometimes it is nice to see some characters that use items from other books and showcase how they can be used.  At the very least I expected some other EN Publishing sources to be used.  It does not have to be for every character and could be done as just a side bar, but with the sheer amount of d20 material in print it would be great way to showcase some of it.      Each NPC is written up as fifth, tenth, and fifteenth levels.  There are no prestige classes used though so that makes the characters especially the high levels ones a little hard to believe as most people play with prestige classes.  Not all the characters need them but a side bar for them at the very least would have been a lot more helpful.    Each NPC does have a small personality section.  They have a bit on tactics and for using the character as a villain.  It is good information but the same information applies to the character for fifth level, tenth level, and fifteenth level.  It just seems that a character would develop different tactics from fifth to fifteenth level.  The amount of new options in those ten levels is considerable.      I find this PDF has limited use.  It is a nice start to the characters and everything but I think the PDF needs a little more to be useful.  The characters are done up withing the rules and there is no glaring stat block errors that I noticed.  But character are more then stat blocks and at times it would be nice if the personality section would actually be longer then the stat block.  It would place the emphasis on the personality of the character instead of the stats of the character.</blockquote>

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