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This is a very brief PDF document offered free. I am almost always "stuck" when it comes to names, and tend to collect names I find interesting to use in my adventures and stories. I was disappointed with this offering in that some items seemed unhelpful in their use (i.e., "Potion of Acid"). However, this work is offered free of charge.
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Does nothing that a quick skim of a map of the English countryside couldn't do equally well, but fairly priced for saving me the effort of opening googlemaps on a game night if I forgot to prepare properly.
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A bit unimaginative, but an OK list to work from for when you need to fill a bookshelf on short notice.
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Modestly priced, but a bit of a waste even so. Nothing that hitting the keyboard randomly couldn't duplicate reasonably well. Only recommended for the seriously lacking in imagination.
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Every single individual in the known universe has a background, his own story to tell - but who has the time to work it out for them all? Whilst players may lavish time and effort on their own characters, the GM in particular has shed-loads of NPCs to deal with... and even players may run short of time or inspiration or desire to introduce some randomness, outside factors, into the story they are writing for their character. Hence, this work.
What you get is a bunch of tables to roll on, from which you can build up as much detail as you want for an individual. First of all, there's one for the type of species the individual happens to be - depending on the availability of alien races in your universe, you may feel more comfortable picking one or modifying this to suit. Then we move on to how the individual was 'born' - anything from a conventional birth to exotic artificial methods, parents, siblings and other family members.
The next area to be explored is personal details. Quite a lot of detail on occupation, with broad categories and then sub-tables for each one; then clothing style, behaviour and even diet. Education, gender, hair colour and style... facial hair, height and weight, how healthy they are... possibly even more detail than you bother with for a character you are going to play - yet it all goes to making anyone - PC or NPC - more 'real' in the context of the alternate reality you and your friends are creating in your game. Consider this: you probably know this much about a close friend: what his favourite food is, what he looks like, what he does and a bit about how he was educated... so why do you not know the same sort of details about your character?
More details: hobbies, the sort of home the individual lives in and even how much time he spends there. Then implants - legal or otherwise - and the languages he can speak... looks, age (real and apparent), pets and personality, quirks, how good his senses are, even sexual preferences, skin colour and what his voice sounds like. Finally, there is a set of tables to allow you to create a bit of background history, a 'lifepath' if you will, of major events in his past.
It's rather fun to play with, may even suggest plot ideas and certainly leaves you knowing a lot more about a character than a few stats scribbled on a character sheet ever will!
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This product is a magnificent resource for any GM who has struggled when devising the lists of loot available to characters, all the more because it is so well organised and focussed on just the soon-to-be-robbed property of Aberrations. Further types of monster are promised for further releases in this series.
Organised by average party level - a good way to ensure that the characters neither get too powerful too fast nor fail to be adequately rewarded for their efforts - suggestions are made for the different amounts of treasure available: incidental (less than standard), standard, double or triple. For each category you can then roll a d6 (or choose from the list) to find out precisely what is in that particular treasure: coins, gems and other items of value. Naturally, if you have a particular item you want to introduce to your game, you can either add it to what's there, or use it to replace an equivalent item in that cache if balance is particularly important for you.
It should be a real boon to anyone who is pressed for time or short on ideas for loot, and this promises to be a series worth collecting by any GM who enjoys creating their own adventures and encounters.
I just have one quibble. Treasure comes in HOARDS not HORDES! Get that right and I shall be tempted to make this a 5-star product, rather than a 4-star one.... and within 24 hours a corrected version was uploaded! Well done, & I am good to my word... have your 5 stars :)
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While the list is only 1 page and gives no description of the rooms, the cost is 0.00 and takes only moments to download. I recently was mapping out a residence and could have used this product to help fill in some of the rooms. But that points out, this product is most beneficial when used ahead of time, during the planning of a adventure.
Many of the rooms have very imaginative names and that could be an evenings hook.
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This is a great product! I will definitely use the templates in this product in my game in the near future!
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This is a collection of seven monster templates for Pathfinder, labeled for dragons. None of them feel like they are especially for dragons; Lazy, Masochistic, and Insane could all apply to any creature. Several feel mispriced, and none of them feel interesting, like I would ever use them. Masochistic is unclear on how it works; "If the dragon confirms a critical, then the
following occurs: * +1 to critical chance * +1 to critical confirmation roll * +1 damage * +1 to hit" when the only one of those that could happen after the dragon confirms a critical is +1 damage. Or does it mean for the rest of the encounter? Typography is inconsistent and not well done, punctuation is missing or misused, and "The javelin is bread to kill other dragons with its wing attacks." (To go beyond a cheap shot at the limits of spell checking, this struck me as one of the most promising and hence disappointing traits. "Bred to kill other dragons" should mean more than just some bonuses to wing attacks.)
I suppose it's possible that this is part of a more interesting set, since they say that Novus Draco is recommended, but I don't see the value as a stand-alone item.
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50 cents for a reference you really don't NEED, but would love to have in your gun belt "just in case". I love it. Came in handy on several situations...when knee deep in an improvised adventure and the characters happen across a wayward inn. BING! Thanks Ennead!
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This is rather fun... in the quest to add greater detail and variety to that most iconic of monsters, the dragon, here is a selection of templates to apply to your base dragon stats, to give all manner of additional features to them. Some will create 'variants' or 'sub-species' of known dragon types, while others add little quirks and different abilities to whatever dragon to whom you choose to apply the template.
Starting off with the Albino - NOT a white dragon but one of any shade born without pigmentation - there is a whole range of things you can do with your dragons. Maybe he's amphibious, or has a weird breath weapon that literally encases its target in quick-setting amber. Maybe it was too mean to die and has become a ghost. Or it can blink (as in the spell), or it appears to be made of glass...
There's a lot of fun to be had here... Now, dragons should always be the high spot of an adventure, something exciting to encounter, but these templates can be used to make them even more interesting and unusual... and we've only got to 'H'! Look out for more...
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Back in 1983, a dungeon rang with song: "What shall we do with a drunken dragon?" as we'd managed to kill one off, a black one as I recall, and were wondering what to do with it...
Herein perhaps I shall find the answers, even if that black dragon is long since roasted and eaten. The work details all the parts of a dragon, their value and possible uses. Apart from featuring on the party's menu, the skull might make a trophy, the hide as armour or boots, other parts may serve as spell components, jewellry or even aphrodesiacs (I'll leave you to imagine which bits!). Let nothing go to waste.
However, it's not quite that easy. Once you have decided which bits to collect, you have to butcher the dragon, extract the chosen bits and then get them safely to wherever you plan to sell or otherwise use them. You may also wish to have a chance that parts were damaged during combat - well, the dragon is dead and it's unlikely it died of fright when the party arrived, so there may well be battle damage. And of course, if you're clumsy, you might damage bits even as you try to harvest them. Even if you are taking care you might encounter all manner of problems - trapped gas, for example, or a parasite which realises that its host is no more and it had better find a new one.
The second part of this work looks at equipment that might be useful if you are fighting dragons, or which can be manufactured from their remains. Specialist arrows, harvesting tools (what? You went hunting dragons on purpose, for the express reason of bringing back dragon parts? Why not, indeed!), preservative chemicals... and the equipment that the best-dressed dragon might itself have: talon covers, prosthetic scales and so on.
And then, back to roast dragon. Or at least some recipes for choice dragon parts, for the ultimate dungeon feast, or for when you haul that mound of dragon-meat back to town and sell it to some enterprising inn-keeper. Blood pudding, dragon haggis, dragon-fat fried potatoes, dragon liver soup and more (om nom nom) plus a few drinks into the bargain.
Finally there's a handful of plot hooks involving the potentials of dragon-hunting for pleasure and more importantly profit. Fruit for a few adventures there, and overall a product redolent of ideas...
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A dragon is, well, a dragon, right?
Now it doesn't have to be. It's easy enough to come up with the stats - age, colour, size, weapons, etc. - but how do you tell one dragon from another?
Here are some 30 descriptions that go well beyond game mechanics. You can use them as is, the juvenile gold Cloghgyrtu the Coward quite appeals, for example, or you can mix and match if you decide that his velociraptor head with double brow horns and stiff neck that he has trouble bending looks better on a different dragon.
They're all like that, those little features that enhance descriptions far beyond just saying "It's a large red dragon" and embue each one with character. One might have silver eyes, another a whip-light tail, a third tends to cough a lot.... scales might have a range of colours - and not even the official colour that the dragon in question is from a rules mechanical standpoint! That could prove entertaining as the gold-scaled beast advancing on you suddenly spits acid or electricity...
A neat idea to help personalise your dragons and make them come alive to your players.
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This product contains a comprehensive review of what breath weapons actually are, how they work in terms of game mechanics and even takes a look at how they might work in terms of the alternate reality of your game... what is actually going on inside that creature just before it breathes its 'whatever' at you. This last is of particular interest to anyone who likes to understand the 'ecology' of the monsters that they use in their games.
At places, particularly in the first few pages, the text reads more like notes jotted down as the author thinks about breath weapons rather than a finished product. By the time we reach the 'in character' descriptions of breath weapons it has settled down to a more polished delivery.
An interesting feature of the 'in character' understanding of how breath weapons work is that it has been written at the level of knowledge appropriate to a quasi-mediaeval fantasy world. So, for example, an electrical attack is not really understood - as a 21st century person with life-sciences training, I'd be thinking in terms of the way in which a creature like the electric eel generates its charge, but here we have thoughts of it being akin to an electrical storm and ending with 'The alchemists are working on an answer to that'!
Then we move on to the process of designing a new breath weapon from the ground up, including calculation of CRs and creating a template for creatures that will use it. This is followed by several new breath weapons that have already been designed for you to use. Many of these are based on spell effects like Fear or Move Earth.
Finally there are some 'breath weapon related feats. These enable the creature wielding the breath weapon to modify or otherwise control it in a similar fashion to a magic-user utilising metamagic feats to alter his spells. At the very end there's an appendix that looks at areas of effect (with neat charts) and ways of calculating the course of a jagged, curved or chaotic breath weapon.
There's a lot of useful stuff here about the art and science of breath weapons, and with a modicum of editing and expansion could be a contender for 'Compleat Book of Breath Weapons'... it just gives out an air of having been a little rushed in the writing, perhaps a deadline caught the author unawares.
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The product is basically just a list of professions in a fantasy setting - some more useful than others. It is an ok source of inspiration for encounters so you don't fall into the stereotypical encounter with a blacksmith because you couldn't think of anything else. As a free product it is worth getting but I would not have paid much if anything at all to get it had it not been free.
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