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Nice cover and page art – beautiful but still fairly easy to read. A space between each entry would have helped.
I expected to see a list to roll on, but the supplement jumps right into the character descriptions. This makes it a little more difficult to use as a spur-of-the-moment resource but dang, take five minutes of prep time and you have a handful of wonderful characters to round out the common patrons of your local tavern or inn. Even so, it’s still a huge time-saver for GMs, and there are enough characters to sprinkle through many inns, in many places.
These characters offer story hooks too, so you’ve got 100 jumping-off points for quests and stories.
These characters aren’t confined to the tavern either, but could be encountered at the market, the temple, coming or going through the town gates, or on the road.
All in all, a great supplement, and well worth the price.
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Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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Excellent take on Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra for the Apocalypse World engine. It does a really good job of translating the setting to the rule system. My one complaint with the PDF is that it's not bookmarked, but that's a very minor issue. The formatting is pretty barebones, but it doesn't particularly need to be anything more than that. It does its job.
As far as the actual meat of the game, yeah, it absolutely does a good job. Apocalypse World is, of course, easy to tweak, but speaking from experience, keeping the balance of "engaging game" and "not too bloated" can be more difficult than one would think. This book handles it beautifully, giving me plenty to make it feel interesting and varied without weighing the sleek engine down. I also enjoy that the author was willing to step outside the box a little with the engine itself, implementing things like Oaths (which I don't *think* I remember being in Apocalypse World), sub-playbooks and animal companions.
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Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This adventure clocks in at 24 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 20 pages of content, so let’s take a look!
This review was requested by my patreons, to be undertaken at my leisure.
Now, if you’re playing DCC, chances are that you will be familiar with this adventure, and it being a classic funnel, it has kicked off countless campaigns – it was the first stand-alone adventure released for the system, after all. This is a pretty well-known adventure, but is it still holding up? Does it make sense today, and could it work in other contexts? We’ll see. Now, this is a funnel – that means it’s intended for 0-level characters. A lot of them. 10 – 15 are suggested, noting that typically, about half of them will survive. The module could be run as a level 1 or 2 adventure as well, though compared to most such DCC modules, it may be a bit easy for those levels. It *may* be – or it may not...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This hybrid class clocks in at 39 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages of SRD, 1 page advertisement, leaving us with 34 pages of content, so let’s take a look!
So, this one takes a bit of a different approach than most hybrid classes – we begin with pretty extensive notes that first explain the design rationale, and then proceeds to provide a flavorful legend and some in-character prose. I enjoy books that take the time to set the stage. Now, idolatry has a bad reputation in the monotheistic religions that many people nowadays follow, but at one time, worshiping statues that actually properly represented the deity was the standard procedure. (One may well argue that, while nominally, most Christians don’t worship idols of their god, worshiping an abstract cross with a depiction of Jesus crucified on it, is actually not that different, and call hypocrisy on the idolatry ban, but I digress.)
Anyways, the idolator thus does feel some...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This is a bit different: The Stone Fields of Azoroth represent a mini-sandbox of sorts, and the deal includes 3 different pdfs as well as a .png-map. Said map depicts the village of Bad Water and looks charmingly hand-drawn. Much to my chagrin, no player-friendly version sans numbers and the like is included.
Rules-system wise, these pdfs adhere to Swords & Wizardry, though, as always, adapting the content to another old-school rule-set is pretty simple. AC is presented as ascending. Magic items are bolded in text. Monsters get full stats, while NPCs note their class levels, if any, and their actual profession in the context of the village. Now, this bundle of sorts presents a sandbox of sorts – two of the pdfs depict the “adventure-locations”: Book 2 presents a 6-room mini-dungeon, while Book 3 sports basically a climactic multi-stage encounter in the wilderness. The only maps for these also double as the front covers of these books, showing the regi...
Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!] |
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