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Good art, crucial if you are running the game as many of the setting rules (hacking, cybertrauma, Zeeks) are there. Only flaw I saw was on the Shaken(Spirit Roll) table (the results are inverted to the success), hopefully they will fix that soon and is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars.
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This item set the standard for our campaign on how to track not only initiative, but also tracking monster information.
The only down side was when the monster got it, if you were using the card to track HP, you had to pull it out of the initiative stack to record it and sometimes it went back into the wrong spot.
This was only replaced by the Paizo Magnetic initiative board several years later.
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Third in a set of terrain tiles for a sci-fi setting
The Good:
Wonderful details and beautiful setting. Great for 20-28mm (not for use with Clix and their 1.5" scale)
Combining this set with set #1 you can create a wide variety of bases (or Vaults).
The bad:
Just a short page of printing tips would have been helpful. I wasted a lot of ink and paper the first time printing this to get it all on the wrong scale (instead of 1" squares I got 3/4" squares). Still that was user error vs. the quality of the product and its great price.
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The Good:
Beautifully detailed tiles for a science fiction base. (Or Vault)
The So-So:
Just wish there were good instructions on printing the product because I sure wasted lots of paper printing it out and getting the squares too small. Oh well, lesson learned.
The Bad:
None.
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I purchased this item for item creation rules (so for 1 paragraph of the rules)
But I still see how this item, like the pulp gear toolkit, would be very useful for a campaign where starship (based on reality - vs the pulp physics of Flash Gordon), mechs, robots, power armor, and cybernetics would be handy to know some rules of creation.
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This set is chocked full of Paper modeling goodness.
The GREAT:
The Hollywood flats are perfect way to create buildings without all the details. And while the template is for a basic square building (7"x7") There are great instructions on how to make a variety of shapes.
The set comes with the blank concrete tile that I bemoaned was missing from the Streets of Mayhem.
The Good:
As I said, lots and lots of pieces to bring your urban board to life.
The So So:
I just wish the set had a plain brown (vs. Brown and Green) gravel section, but thats because I am doing a Fallout themed board so I need dead vegetation.
The bad: Nothing
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A great set for anyone planning an urban campaign or minis game.
The Good:
Very detailed
Lots of variety in props
Fantastic instructions so that even a novice could follow them.
A very active forum so lots of support for the products they produce.
The So-So:
The set as a whole has all the basic shapes you could ever need to make a road, but I really wish there were two version of all the road pieces, because when you lay down a long road, even after rotating the piece it becomes evident there is only one road tile, and that piece of garbage on the sidewalk become rather annoying. Still this is just a minor minor complaint.
The Bad
If you want a blank concrete square to know where to place your building you have to buy another set (Bit of Mayhem). I was really surprised to not find such a tile, I am sure you could use the "Wasteland" tile so it is not a big negative, but a plain concrete piece would have been nice.
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A collection of the many tales of Fu Manchu. It is great for those who cannot track down copies of their own or who want to read it offline.
The Good:
Its a collection of books that you can read off line
The Bad:
The price is a bit high knowing that most of these stories are available for free reading at the Google Books site (just search for Fu Manchu).
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This product provide many good elements all stat'd out for a good pulp adventure game
Good:
Well laid out
The ability to "build your own" Aircraft, Zeppelins, Ground Vehicles, and Flash-Gordon spacecraft (where physics should be left at the door).
A long list of good pulp treasures to have your Indiana Jones fix (So think Warehouse 23 from Steve Jackson games but more pulp feel)
Bad:
While the list of mundane gear was nice, I had hoped for much more, fortunately I own the Hollow Earth Expedition - secrets of the surface world, for some ideas of prices and available technology of the mid 1930's so I am not in bad shape.
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So, I am really getting into the Pulp Genre with TripleAce Games Daring Tales of Adventure (DToA) when I noticed this item was written by the same author of that series of adventures.
First - This is not required to Run DToA, DToA has its own set of rules that were taken from this supplement directly.
Second - This is a Toolkit, which means its a lot of optional things that you can choose to include or ignore.
What I loved about this book were the Sections on Archetypes and Monsters. These two sections make it so much easier to plop villians, npcs, and foes right into any pulpy game you want.
My only nit (and its a small one), was the trap table was not on the same page describing traps. Other than that, if you are using Savage Worlds as your game mechanics, and you want to do pulp, you cannot go wrong with this Toolkit.
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A mystery with a possible supernatural twist to keep the players guessing.
While written for d20, it can easily be adapted to any other mechanics as the adventure provides all the npcs, their motivations, and possible innocence or guilt.
What MAY be a challenge for the Game Master was while there was great stat-blocks for the NPCs and explanations what they have been up to, as well as twists depending on if you are running the scenario as murder mystery or supernatural mystery, there was no real hints on how to role play the character except what you could extract from their description. It would have been nice to have some roleplay notes (ex. Reginald Pierce - is he distracted all the time, absent minded, cries alot due to the death at his museum, any of these could help a Game Master know how to best play this NPC). Even a simple description outside of their occupation and gender would have been nice (tall, thin, short, pudgy, brown hair, blonde, blue eyes, brown eyes, etc.).
So while a great story with good NPCs, I cannot give it full 5 stars without further fleshing out of the characters the PCs must interact with on a some-what persistent basis.
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Like other Daring Tales of Adventure the game starts up right away with action and the pace hardly ever slows down. A mix of Big Trouble in Little China and the Insideous Dr. Fu Manchu the players take on an ancient evil. Like all DToA, Game masters are strongly advised to go the TripleAces website and get all the free goodies there, espeically the Pulp Rules. Like all past DToA it is written for the 4 pre-gens, but can easily accomodate more Players and using custom characters. This adveture really does leverage the TripleAces character flats for most encounters, but I really wish they would have flats for the special characters (Lo-peng and his talons). So far the series of adventures have leveraged a wide variety of pulp sources and still remained original. So I look forward to purchasing the remaining 8 modules as they are released.
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Another great scenario by Triple Ace Games. Though things here are more 'fantastic' than past releases, it is a full on global campaign taking players from Washington DC to the Deserts of Egypt to the heart of Spain to beyond (sorry, want to limit the spoilers here). \
This adventure can be used the 4 pre-gens from TripleAces website, or if the PCs wish to create their own they can, just pay attention to the EXP level that is expected here.
It is important to any Game Master to go to the Triple Aces website and get the Pulp Era rules that are available as a free PDF to know what some of the unique rules that involved in running a Daring Tales of Adventure (while you are there get the Pre-gens, and the free figure flats)
Again, I wish they would include character flats for the unique creatures/figures for this scenario (of which there are plenty here).
All in all, I am enjoying the product line and look forward to getting the remaining 9 in the months ahead.
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So I just picked up Hollow Earth Expedition at Origins, looking for yet another solid Pulp themed RPG and was not disappointed in the slightest. Also got the GM screen at the same time, and the intro adventure in there prominently includes an Earth Drill. So instead of trying to explain the contraption to players who may or may not have an idea of what I am talking about, I got this. Now an important note. Even though the picture shows a T-Rex, there is none in this pack. What you are getting here is the Drill. The instructions are clear and each part is its own PDF which can be printed as much as needed (so that your players can be chased by a whole army of Nazi thugs in a battalion of these if you wished). So for the price its a good deal. Especially when your players are ready to return to the surface, have a running fight with some dinosaur who dies and crushes their drill in a dramatic table smashing fashion.
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When one needs tiles to create large dungeon layouts, one only needs to look to eAdventures. As an owner of many of the sets created by SkeletonKey games, I find these sets fabulous for creating epic encounter maps. Yes, it eats paper and ink like no tomorrow, but if done right the players remember the battles as well as you do when done.
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