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Not bad. Not bad at all. It would have been nice to have rendered maps for all the encounters. It is not necessary of course but it would take the module up another notch.
The adventure itself is clicheed as most 1st level modules are. It follows the usual formula: find out what threatens a village and remove that threat via a dungeon crawl. This adventure has a gritty feel, which I like.
The weakness of the module is that the author has not taken full advantage of the 4E rules. There are no Skill Challenges at all in here. Yet there are many opportunities to add skill challenges. The DM will have to devise those himself. This is a shame because without them this is just another 3E module with updated stats.
The opposition is scary and varied yet manages to remain themed throughout. All in all a nice product but I hope forthcoming Venture 4th-modules will get fully into the spirit of the new edition....
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"Crime Scene Supernatural" provides a knockout punch full of useful information! This not only includes law enforcement procedures but also occult and fringe religious groups and psychic phenomena. And an adventure to get you started!
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Originally reviewed for the Digital Front Podcast.
"Modern^20" is a 108 page, modern d20-based role-playing game by RPGObjects. It is a full-color, extensively bookmarked and sells for an affordable $10. It was designed to be a faster-playing, smoother and more action-packed, modern roleplaying experience than the d20 Modern rule set. There are six chapters and two appendixes in this product.
The first chapter of "Modern^20" power is devoted to character creation and takes up close to the first fifth of the book. Character generation is an eight step process that involves determining your six ability scores (strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom and charisma); there are seven methods suggested to generate ability scores. After your abilities have been determined the player needs to select a background for the character like adventurer, blue collar, doctor, law enforcement, religion, rural, student or others. Backgrounds provide you with two to four skills at a b...
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The old Judges Guild books are by and large full of great story ideas. Unless you are using 1st Edition, you may well have to do a great deal of conversion, but in most cases the low price makes them a resource well worth the investment. This is an average quality effort.
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The old Judges Guild books are by and large full of great story ideas. Unless you are using 1st Edition, you may well have to do a great deal of conversion, but in most cases the low price makes them a resource well worth the investment. This is an average quality effort.
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The old Judges Guild books are by and large full of great story ideas. Unless you are using 1st Edition, you may well have to do a great deal of conversion, but in most cases the low price makes them a resource well worth the investment. This is an average quality effort.
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The old Judges Guild books are by and large full of great story ideas. Unless you are using 1st Edition, you may well have to do a great deal of conversion, but in most cases the low price makes them a resource well worth the investment. This is one of the better products
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The old Judges Guild books are by and large full of great story ideas. Unless you are using 1st Edition, you may well have to do a great deal of conversion, but in most cases the low price makes them a resource well worth the investment. This is an average quality effort.
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An RPG Resource Review:
The aim of this Monster Manual, as with previous editions, is to provide an array of interesting opponents for your characters. It is evident from the very start that a lot of thought has been put into the layout of the entries and the way in which information is presented. This makes it very easy both to select suitable monsters as you design encounters and to run actual combat with the details you need presented handily.
Mechanically, as a catalogue of combat opposition, it's excellent. However, if you like to present an alternate reality in which the monsters live, you are going to have to draw on other resources such as 'monster ecology' books and articles from earlier editions, just using 4e statistics rather than those in your other books when a fight breaks out. One nice touch is that for each monster there is a list of the likely knowledge a well-read adventurer might know about, say, a balhannoth, even before he has the bad luck to meet one. Nothi...
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Ever wanted to give PCs and NPCs alike items from popular video games ? Then this book is for you. While the origins of such items might sound a little bit awkward for hardcore gamers who also play D&D, they are nicely converted and well-balanced. Each of them has the usual magic item qualification, such as [minor wondrous item], and their creations are cleary explained like in other 3.5 books. Surprisingly, all items have been made "serious" and "more mature" compared to their actual counterparts, but the results will rejoice a few players and provide a good comic relief. My only complaint is that there are only a few items in this book, and more would been nice to include. Items like Simon Belmont's whip from Castlevania, Donkey Kong's powerful bongo drums, Kirby's star rod or warp star, Ike's Holy Blade of Ragnell from Fire Emblem and the Soul Calibur and Soul Edge could have been a real blast to use in a D&D game. Perhaps another booklet will be released with a whole new batch of v...
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I ended up downloading more than $150 worth of RPG's and supporting material for my new addiction, Samaria skirmish. I would have been happy to get just a decent skirmish system. What I got was a great deal more!
Whoever wrote Sengoku must have done a 20 year study of Japanese culture. The historical and especially cultural information in this tome is beyond anything I could have imagined. The incredible depth and flavor is amazing. I could have stopped with this one. This, plus the Shinobi books are the King of Samurai RPG's. The character generation is the least painful and most complete, as you end up with a character with motivation and history.
We've standardized (at AoCM Wargame Club) on this one for the skirmish and RPG system. The Filmography gives me hundreds of new titles to search for (I already have dozens of classic Samurai movies).
Now, lets be fair. Printing this work out was a major challenge, particularly since Amazon has the book in print for about $22. The...
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The whole Ptolus setting is a remarkable achievement and is priced appropriately as a PDF. If you are looking for an interesting setting to play in, this one is a good one. If you are looking for something easily adapted to your own world, this probably is not. This setting is unique and proprietary enough that any conversion is difficult.
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The whole Ptolus setting is a remarkable achievement and is priced appropriately as a PDF. If you are looking for an interesting setting to play in, this one is a good one. If you are looking for something easily adapted to your own world, this probably is not. This setting is unique and proprietary enough that any conversion is difficult.
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The whole Ptolus setting is a remarkable achievement and is priced appropriately as a PDF. If you are looking for an interesting setting to play in, this one is a good one. If you are looking for something easily adapted to your own world, this probably is not. This setting is unique and proprietary enough that any conversion is difficult.
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The whole Ptolus setting is a remarkable achievement and is priced appropriately as a PDF. If you are looking for an interesting setting to play in, this one is a good one. If you are looking for something easily adapted to your own world, this probably is not. This setting is unique and proprietary enough that any conversion is difficult.
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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