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GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops $11.99
Publisher: Raging Swan Press
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by Craig C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 06/15/2015 10:42:23

GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops is my first compilation book (along with the Wilderness and Urban Dressing books) that I've purchased from Raging Swan Press as I've bought a few of their smaller, individual PDFs in the past. Needless to say, I've been absolutely immersed in reading the boatload of detailed minutae that this amazing book has to offer. It's hard to break away from reading it! But I must, for I've finally found the penultimate tools to help flesh out my tiny villages that will soon populate the outskirts of Dagger Falls in my Forgotten Realms campaign (using Pathfinder rules).

The sheer quantity & quality of orderly, eyeball-ergonomic idea lists and design guides are a GM's dream. Not only because I was able to expediently execute a lushly-immersive and aesthetically-detailed village profile within mere minutes ... but also because the contents and people of the village I was able to create had vibrancy and a real pulse.

I was expecting to find about a handful of the 12 included villages that would really capture my eye. Instead, all 12 had some form of imagery and content that really grabbed me. And about 1/2 of them I fell in love with (especially White Moon Cove and Apia). I can't gush poetic enough at how fantastic this GM resource is for me. And I've seen it all in my 2 decades of GMing and playing D&D and Pathfinder.

After getting a good feel for all 3 of the big Raging Swan Press compilation books I just bought ... I'm certainly going to be making a larger investment in some of their other compilation books (Tribes, Dungeon Dressing, All That Glimmers). This company has some truly extraordinary GM tools and their formulaic (I say that as a compliment) design layout makes both deep reading and quick-scans-for-emergency-ideas easy, consistent and fun. That part is crucial to me. Because "idea tables" can be done wrong in a way that compels a GM to not use a gievn set of tables again. Raging Swan's m.o. is the exact opposite of that. I use the words "eyeball-ergonomic" up above ... and that's as accurate a description and compliment as I can find to give their design layouts. Great stuff. I'm so happy!



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