The d20 Beasts RPG Bestiary is a d20 book of monsters, using the 3.5 rules, from Digital Adventures, LLC. The zipped file is huge, weighing in at over fifty megabytes, so make sure you have a fast connection when you buy this book. Two PDFs of the product are given, a full version and a printer-friendly version. Both are thirty-six pages long, with a table of contents and no bookmarks.

The art in d20 Beasts is nothing short of breathtaking. Done by Joe Calkins, all of the artwork here is full-color, and is done in rich detail. This is true not only for the monsters themselves, but for the entire visual design of the book. Lush borders creep around every page, and the backgrounds are colorized with faded designs of the monsters (the colorization for the background changes with every creature). The printer-friendly version does away with the borders and backgrounds, but keeps the artwork for the monsters themselves, so your printer shouldn’t have too much trouble with it.

Only fifteen monsters are given in d20 Beasts, ranging from the Assassin Golem to the Vhargul. Most of these are innovative in their conception, such as the small and sinister Nightmare Dragon, or the wise and benevolent Tundra Walker. A few seem too narrowly focused, such as the Grave Naga being essentially a lich template for nagas with a few perks (though they’re some interesting perks!). Covering a CR range from 2 to 18, there’s at least one monster here for whatever level of play you’re looking for. The rules for the creatures are exceptionally done, additionally. I had to comb through the stat blocks very carefully to find errors, and they were minor as well as rare.

All in all, d20 Beasts does a very good job of presenting interesting new monsters for your game. While there are a few things that would have made this product better, such as bookmarks or a list of monsters by CR, there are still a number of unique and interesting monsters for your game to be found here. See what you can throw at your players with d20 Beasts.

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Very well thought out and planned.

For once, NPC interactions actually make sense and the plot is extremely well detailed.

This is a very low magic module, which fits perfectly with my 930A.D. semi-historic viking campaign.

The amount of role-playing involved is amazing, plus there are numerous side plots, minis and town intrigue to keep the players on their toes.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Complex NPCs. Long story progression. Excellent value for the money.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

This adventure is put together very well and it is very entertaining. The authors are obviously very proficient with the Fantasy Grounds software. There are crosslinks within the entire module that take you to exactly what you need when you need it. I'd dare to say the excellent layout of this module almost makes this easier to run in Fantasy Grounds that with pen and paper!

The module itself is well balanced and gives the players quite a challenge. It's a three-part adventure, and it's split such that each part will take an evening to complete. Good value, definitely. All in all, this is a good buy, especially if you're new to FG and want to see how to do it right.

<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>

This is a pretty darn good value, especially for the money. You get 3 tombs, each of them a good little side quests for your players. These are a perfect way to help fill an evening of gaming. The authors know their way around Fantasy Grounds. They've made these very easy to use. Use them in your game, and then later as an example of how to create great content for Fantasy Grounds.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Great value for the money, great layout.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This module is very good. Its also put together very well. The authors are Fantasy Grounds pros, and it shows. Not only that, but the module itself is pretty entertaining! This is a good buy.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Great layout, great price, good attention to detail. Fun module, too...that's important.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Similar to Tombs & Crypts Volume 1, Digital Adventures has packed 3 separate adventure locations into one product. This set is for characters of higher level than Tombs & Crypts, but it also has more variety. Its put together very well and easy to run in Fantasy Grounds. You can make each of these easily last for an evening of gaming, unless your players are bulldozers.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Good value, plenty of content for the price.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Saves the die-hard D20 player a lot of time and effort. I'm not sure why Fantasy Grounds didn't include the full SRD to begin with.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Reviewing a product that packages the SRD is interesting. In some sense, since the information is freely available, the product?s success hinges on making the SRD useful to the user. The Complete SRD Ruleset stays focused on that goal as it packages the SRD for use withing Fantasy Grounds.

The default d20 Ruleset that comes with Fantasy Grounds contains the following divisions at the top level of hierarchy: Character options, Reference, and House Rules.

Character options contains the following divisions: Races, Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, and Wizard.

Reference contains: Armor, Weapons, Feats, and Common Modifiers.

With the Complete SRD Ruleset the top level of hierarchy contains the following divisions: d20 System Reference and Quick Reference.

D20 System Reference contains the following divisions: Basic Rules, Races, Classes, Skills, Feats, Combat, Equipment & Gear, Adventuring, Spells, Psionics, Monsters, and Divine Characters.

Quick Reference contains the following divisions: Characters, Skills, Feats, Combat, Adventuring, Equipment, Spells, Psionics, Credits & Legal, and Common Modifiers.

A quick review will reveal that the Complete SRD Ruleset contains much more information than the default d20 ruleset which comes with Fantasy Grounds. For example, while the default ruleset lists eleven core classes in the Character options section; the Complete SRD has a list in the corresponding area which includes a link to the information on those classes. That greater detail is exactly the rationale behind using the Complete SRD Ruleset. (Lovers of psionics can rejoice!)

In truth, this product highlights that the default d20 Ruleset is not a ruleset. Anyone attempting to run a d20 game through Fantasy Grounds with the default d20 Ruleset will, inevitably, have to refer to an outside source, such as the SRD or a hardcopy of a rule book. To be sure, no ruleset is required to use Fantasy Grounds to run a campaign. There are certainly groups running campaigns in Fantasy Grounds without creating a ruleset for their game system of choice. In fact, I have played in a couple of campaigns that did not use a ruleset, but instead used outside materials as reference. (Hard copies of rule books, PDFs of rule books, online SRD, etc.) However, for those that use d20 and want to have all of this information presented from within Fantasy Grounds, the Complete SRD Ruleset provides your first opportunity to make that a reality.

This product takes the entire SRD and presents it to the user so that the entire campaign can be contained within Fantasy Grounds. Digital Adventures has done a good job of using the ruleset functionality provided by Smiteworks and ensuring that d20 gamers have an actual ruleset to use.

As an example of the organization of the Complete SRD Ruleset, let me describe the contents of the ?Combat? page mentioned above as being present in the ?Quick Reference? section. It contains the following 10 tables: Size Modifiers; Actions in Combat; Tactical Speed; Creature Size and Scale; Attack Roll Modifiers; Armor Class Modifiers; Special Attacks; Common Armor, Weapon, and Shield Hardness and Hit Points; Turning Undead; and Two Weapon Fighting Penalties. These can be very handy during a session. For example, if the DM needs to look up what is the attack roll modifier for an entangled character, the DM simply opens up the ?Attack Roll Modifiers? table and takes a quick peek. Without the Complete SRD Ruleset, the DM must look it up in a rule book or some other source outside of Fantasy Grounds.

By the way, the Complete SRD Ruleset contains over six hundred entries in the list of monsters! (This counts all the subsets of the creature ?families?, such as dragons, elementals, etc.) Feel free to rub your hands in evil glee or cringe with fear, depending on which side of the DM screen you sit on!

To rousing gaming and ample rewards, I. Perez<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>:

1. Completes the SRD for those that want it inside Fantasy Grounds.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This product is exactly what it claims to be: it is an excellent d20 SRD for the Fantasy Grounds client. It presents the data in a very accessible way and it makes it easy to add items to character sheet and reference data.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: High quality, very accessible.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Better character sheet.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This looked like a great product but I am having trouble identifying what was added because I got both ruleset and FG in one evening<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>