This is an amazingly useful product.

Having the vast majority of the more commonly referenced rules, each on a one sheet easy to find, view and use page... Amazing.

I wish our group had found this product the first time we were playing 3.5. We've recently come back to 3.5, after several years of 4th edition. So these 'cheat sheets' are especially valuable in 'teaching' us the rules again.

I actually went to FedEx/Kinkos and had them print these up on heavy weight card stock. Definitely very worthwhile.

Excellent resource! I use it with when play with my children and they (8 &9) find it very helpful. It has almost every tid bit of combat knowledge you could hope for in a quick reference manual. I hope his next project is a quick reference manual for rolling up individual character classes with suggestions for different styles of play (such as Ranger two weapon style vs Ranger archer).

Also it would have been awesome if it referred you to the page numbers for the rule section in the core book, but I am sure there are legal reasons why it does not do that.

It really speeds up play and allows folk to see visually how the rules play out.

Great product! All core battle rules (and not only) in few pages.

Straight forward and easy to use, has most things we want to look up right at our finger tips which helps us keep our game moving along quickly. Worth the few bucks it cost!

Easier to browse than the hardcover, less intrusive than having laptops and tablets at the table can be, SORD PF makes the crunch of Pathfinder manageable. It's all there, it's indexed clearly, and at only 38 pages of mechanics it'll fit into a folio with your character sheet or GM notes easily.

There's only one thing 'wrong' with SORD PF and it's relatively minor: It's got SO MUCH information packed onto every page that there's not enough margin if you want to hole punch it! Thankfully, sheet protectors are cheap and ensure one copy will last years.

This SORD for the pathfinder game has been invaluable at helping me learn the complexities of combat within the pathfinder game. Reading the CORE rulebook was easy enough, but so much info was spread throughout that it was hard to keep a grasp on the basics without feeling lost. This very concise and well laid out aid was just what i needed to help me manage combat as well as become very familiar with the games basic mechanics. In time i'm sure it will help speed up our game as well, but for the moment it is doing a wonderful job at helping me learn the game at the same time!! Thanks for this!

There’s a lot more to this product than I realized at first. I was expecting to get a printable miniatures-scale map of the titular inn, and I wasn’t disappointed: the maps cover not only the inn’s ground floor, but also its cellar (and more; see below). The artwork strongly resembles Ed Bourelle’s work for SkeletonKey Games. Unlike many printable map products, this one isn’t just sliced up between grid squares; instead, artist (and author and editor and everything else) Steve Muchow has tiled the pages so that they overlap, making it much easier for you to line them up well when you assemble the tiles into larger scenes. The artwork itself is of varying quality; some of the lines are much crisper and cleaner than others, and some of the outlines are much heaver than others, without any obvious reason why. Muchow does a good job of rendering stone floors, but falls short when it comes to water (which ends up looking like blue stone).

In addition to the layouts, Muchow also gives a very full description of the inn, its staff, and its notable patrons, including the proprietor, Griselda of Everet, whose penchant for resurrecting dead adventurers gives the inn its name (but see my last paragraph below). Muchow provides seven “strange events” that could happen at the inn and three “adventure seeds,” which are really more like complete dungeon delves since Muchow includes detailed encounter writeups for each one. For the sake of any potential players who might read this review, I won’t give away the key plot elements of each “seed.” For DMs who might want to use this product, I’ll tell you that the three “seeds” are designed for levels 1, 5, and 15. The 1st-level scenario was my favorite and seems like the most entertaining of the three. The catch is that you’ll probably only want to use one of these in any given campaign, since the scenarios use the same map for the inn’s cellar, an orc haven, and ancient ruins. This is efficient, but could strain your players’ buy-in if they hit the same layout repeatedly.

With its attractive, efficient layout and good editing, this product is easy to recommend. I do have one grognardy complaing about the product, and that is the lack of any sort of hat tip to or acknowledgment to Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor setting, which had so many of us visiting Arneson’s Comeback Inn in the late 70s and early 80s. Arneson’s inn used the “come back in” pun in a very different way from Muchow’s, but the very name is a part of fantasy role-playing lore that shouldn’t be ignored.

There is not much to say about this product other than "Great Formatting". It is often difficult to review an SRD since the content was penned by another. One of the things that has made this very useful to me is the layout, the formatting, and indexing in the PDF. It has allowed me to look at rules in a heartbeat and not loose pace with the story I am telling. It was completely worth the 4.95 I paid for it, and although an impulse buy for me it has been used more often than not.

Please pick this up if you are running a Pathfinder game, or playing it at a convention. It is even more valuable if you have an ipad.

A good-looking and practical set of maps, amusing description (you can probably guess the setup) and encounter in the cellar for the titular inn, leading into a foray against some chaos-corrupted humanoids menacing the settlement.

Absolutely invaluable, and shows the same excellent design ethic as the 3.5 and PFRPG Beta version before it. A must-buy if you're a PFRPG ref.

SORD PF is either the boiled down distillate of basic combat mechanics for Pathfinder, or a GM's shield on steroids and a half-gallon of high test coffee. The stated goal is to reduce combat time by 15 minutes per encounter and I can see where this will deliver.

Gone are the days of flipping through a 575 page core rule book. At 36 pages of usable material, SORD PF takes all the frustration out of finding how to break out of a grapple, or just how much damage a 7th level Cleric will do to undead when they channel energy.

Weapons tables, skill checks, movement, special attacks, fire and lava damage - it's all here. As an added bonus the PDF is completely bookmarked so in electronic format it's a snap to find a topic area, or simply CTRL-F to find that specific bit of info you need for your grapple zealous Bard or the fighter who's stumbled in to a nest of acid spitting lava golem.

This is worth the cover price of $4.95 to be able to honestly speed up your encounters, keeping them fun and a lot less frustrating.

I just bought this because the preview looked awesome and I was not disappointed. I have yet to use this product in an actual game session but I am chomping at the bit to do so. It is simply amazing how much content that they have managed to pack into a mere 36 pages, practically everything that I would need to reference during a game is there as far as rules details and the like, item hardness and hit points, condition summaries, spell saving throws, cover and hiding, concealment and flanking, special kinds of damage, heat, cold, acid, falling, drowning and suffocation and this is only barely scratching the surface. I am telling you Pathfinder GMs get this PDF you will not be disappointed there is even an really cool initiative tracking sheet that you can laminate and use with dry erase or wet erase pens and it has all the necessary initiative info on the page above it. This is truly a great product, keep up the good work guys!

Charles

Whether a player or a DM, this is an absolute essential for 3E. Extremely well done.

In total this week, I spent $1.95 on RPG product, yet walked away pretty content.

My purchase at was SORD Plus, by Myth Merchant Press. SORD stands for System Operational Reference Digest. The first version of this product, SORD, is an effort to create a streamlined, easily referenced product for the rules and conditions of D&D 3.5 (which, as we all know, can be a bit daunting). SORD Plus takes this same concept to Pathfinder Beta, and I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Extensive bookmarking and some hyperlinks make this a good online reference; I was also really pleased with how it printed out in greyscale (the product is in color, but is designed to print well in grayscale also. Nicely divided tables give a summary of the rules, and give you what you need to understand the effect certain conditions and maneuvers have on gameplay. Basically, any "fluff" has been ruthlessly wiped from this product, and what was left has been reorganized expertly into a product that should help player and GM alike. This is as much a rules compendium and reference as much as anything, and at that, it excels.

There's really no rule not touched on in here--from combat to conditions to armor to damage, saving throws, and every other item that is usually a page-flipper. Overall, I'm pleased with my purchase, and consider it a bargain at under $2. I anticipate this not only helping speed up our games, but educating on rules I perhaps poorly understood. It definitely has my recommendation for folks looking to run or play 3.5 or Pathfinder who, like me, aren't human rule databases. I certainly hope we can wield a SORD for the final version of Pathfinder as well.

(Note: Make sure that if you want the version for Pathfinder Beta, you'll want SORD Plus. For regular 3.5, just use SORD).

A well-organized presentation of the D&D rules. I'm glad somebody put this together!