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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 777807" data-attributes="member: 4530">I liked the book because it was all mundane items, instead of mostly magic like every other one. Many of the mundane items offered non-magical bonuses to skills and this was a nice way of not having to "magic up" every last piece of equipment just to get something tangibly cool out of it. Like the Arcane Robe and Arcane Staff (both flashy over the top looking items like the way the mages in the D&D movie dressed, LOL---hey, Jeremy Irons was lookin' suitably powerful in his Profion get-up so don't laugh). When worn together, you get a +3 bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks to convince another of your magical power and consequently, your ability to smite them dead or worse if they don't help you out, LOL. Nice. The Elegant Outfit on the other hand, for a mere 320 gp (even more royal than the royal outfit in the PHB), will give you a +2 bonus to Bluff, Gather Info and Intimidate checks in social situations where your ostentatious appearance could benefit you greatly by cowing those of lesser station either through the subject's admiration or fear (-2 if the person despises the rich and powerful). The scintillating elvish Star Robe gives you a +1 morale bonus to all Charisma based checks for "only" 750 gp. There are fun items like finger razors (false fingernails designed more for appearance than battle but still capable of getting in one good---poisoned, if you're smart--claw attack (only 5 gp). There are several monocles to choose from, too (the Rogue's Monocle grants +2 to Search checks, though I'd confer this to Appraise checks as well).Lots of good stuff in this book; it is like the old Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog for 3e. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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