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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: 2011755" data-attributes="member: 232">Pumpkin Patch    One of the traditions of gamers is the famed Halloween game.  Not every one does it but it can be a lot of fun and offer something different from the typical session.  There are few products though that really enhances these types of games.  Ravenloft has been known as the setting of choice for a more horror flavor and there have been a few companies that have placed out other books that work more on a horror level.  Pumpkin Patch is one such book and while it is not pure horror it defiantly will take some traditional ideas and bring them into the RPG.    The Pumpkin Patch is the first in a line of books called Visions.  As of the writing of this review there are three books in the line.  They are all written by Patrick Younts, an author who has proven time and time again that he has a good grasp on the system both from a rules aspect and in creativity.  I think his best book to date is Quintessential Sorcerer, but truthfully I have yet to be disappointed by him.  The Pumpkin Patch is a PDF book that is a little under three megs in size.  It is put out by Philip Reed’s Ronin Arts.  If you are not aware of Ronin Arts, you really need to be.  They have about two hundred PDFs released now and are one of the leaders in the PDF industry.      The PDF is nicely laid out and really looks good.  But it does have thick gray borders that can make it a pain on a printer’s ink.  There is very little art in the book but what is there is good and fitting.  The cover is really cool looking and a bit creepy.  I really like the use of the over all red and the shadowing in it.  The PDF is only twenty two pages long but well book marked.  It is very easy to find things in it.    The book has a nice overall pumpkin theme.  One of the first things it does is provide a simple rule for having jack o lanterns at the doors and windows of abode.  Their purpose is to frighten off bad spirits and while they are not greatly effective it at least establishes a use for them in game and in the rules.  They can also be used to aid in turning certain types of undead.       There are three pumpkin themed items.  The first is a bag of seeds that can be used to make pumpkin bombs which are a new spell or create a tangle patch which is another new spell.  It has a limited number of seeds though.  The next item is the pumpkin carriage.  While it fits the theme it brings on memories of singing mice and fairy god mothers.  The last item is a Spirit Lantern, which is a Jack o Lantern that has magical abilities to help protect against evil and undead.      There area few spells here but it also reminds me of a point I have not made.  A lot of the effects and targets are evil fey as well as the evil undead.  I really like that the fey were included as targets even though there is not a lot about evil fey written up in D&D.  This book does have some Fey creatures in it though.  The first spell is Lantern Eyes and it is used to frighten off evil fey and undead.  Next is pumpkin bomb that turns pumpkins into lethal projectiles.  And the final one is Tangle Patch and it causes Pumpkin vines to grow and grapple targets.          The monsters are very rich in flavor.  The first creature is the Lantern Cap.  It is a hunter of creature’s heads and strikes at cross roads and other places well traveled.  The description of this evil fey is very good and it is a good challenge that can also be creepy.  There are some editing problems in it.  For instance the fire breath has one save for _ damage.  I assume that should be half but it is not in the book.  The Pumpkin head has hit points separate from the body but again it just says _ and again I’ll assume half but this really needs to be fixed.  Other then those two problems the creature is really well done.     The real monster of the book is Jack O’ The Lantern.  This creature is a very powerful Fey that is very well described and ready to be used.  He is creepy and offers a challenge a bit different from what players should expect.  There is a greater fey template as well as a Gourd Guardian creature.     The book really does something with pumpkins that I was not expecting.  This might be the best thing to happen to them since pumpkin pie.  It is rich in flavor, the book not the pie.  It offers some new ideas on how to bring some quintessential Halloween themes into a campaign.</blockquote>

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