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Fantastic art, great setting, Bay of Spirits and related modules provide depth and richness to the fabric of any game world, and can stand on their own! I can't say enough about them - purchased the entire catalog. More than worth the money, and that stands true for all of it. Posting this to all the Roan Studios products on DriveThruRPG.
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Fantastic art, great setting, Bay of Spirits and related modules provide depth and richness to the fabric of any game world, and can stand on their own! I can't say enough about them - purchased the entire catalog. More than worth the money, and that stands true for all of it. Posting this to all the Roan Studios products on DriveThruRPG.
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Fantastic art, great setting, Bay of Spirits and related modules provide depth and richness to the fabric of any game world, and can stand on their own! I can't say enough about them - purchased the entire catalog. More than worth the money, and that stands true for all of it. Posting this to all the Roan Studios products on DriveThruRPG.
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Fantastic art, great setting, Bay of Spirits and related modules provide depth and richness to the fabric of any game world, and can stand on their own! I can't say enough about them - purchased the entire catalog. More than worth the money, and that stands true for all of it. Posting this to all the Roan Studios products on DriveThruRPG.
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Fantastic art, great setting, Bay of Spirits and related modules provide depth and richness to the fabric of any game world, and can stand on their own! I can't say enough about them - purchased the entire catalog. More than worth the money, and that stands true for all of it. Posting this to all the Roan Studios products on DriveThruRPG.
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Evocative.
If I had to choose a single word to describe "Bay of Spirits" it would be evocative. The setting drips with just enough detail to leave you wanting more. As a DM it leaves enough room for you to make it your own, and to easily adapt it - wither to BX, 5E or whatever other system you like. The artwork and maps are perhaps the most wonder ful part. I'd urge anyone looking for a stand-alone setting, or perhaps a micro-setting for insertion into a larger game world to take a look.
For $2.99 - this is plenty of material and has relatively few errors when it comes to typos or grammar. Nothing worth calling out.
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This complex spire is So freakin cool!!!! I've looked it over a few times now and the whole thing is so complex, unique and exciting. I love how fully fleshed out it feels. The town at the base of the spire has a back story, all the stops along the way complete the overall map, the tavern in the city is awesome and has it's own map, I just can't say enough good about this map pack. Well worth the $1.00!!!
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These maps are so sweet!! My most favorite is the surprise menu attached to two of the taverns! We printed those ones out right away and used them in game same day. Each tavern has so much character, and our game table always winds up at a tavern that this helped a ton!
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These maps are gorgeous and some of them have names and backstories with them. They all fit together in one world, and could easily be from one region. They're totally the types of maps that could fit into any world or game system. I can't wait to get these printed and put them into my world. I've got ideas for at least two of them already!
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I'm writing a review of this after looking through it quickly once. However, I know that if I don't write one, I never will.
As with all of the other ROAN materials which I've seen, the artwork in this is fantastic and richly detailed. Buy it solely for that.
However, what separates this material from others is the level of detail and consistency that the material has. This isn't just a module that you can quickly run a bunch of teenagers through, this is foundational material which adds background, color, and depth to a campaign. I mean, how often have you seen someone talk about the pirates that live on the islands of the bay?
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I need to read this about 3 times before I'm comfortable with it, but I've already got a plan for where it's going to be part of my campaign.
As always, ROAN's stuff is amazingly illustrated. Even if you can't use the setting in your campaign, you really should buy this for the artwork and the ideas contianed therein.
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All of ROAN's work is excellently illustrated. I don't know how I'll use the work in my campaign, but I enjoy looking at it.
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The design is wonderful, but the technical layout is crippling -- the whole dungeon is on one "page" but that page has been extended to roughly 6 times the normal length of a portrait page.
the PDF is 32 meg per "long page" so my pdf viewer (skim on OSX) is dying under the load of rendering even one page of this.
I hoped that I could just print it and be done with digital problems, but since the dungon's page is abnormal ratio, I have the option of either having a natural zoom/ratio picture of the middle 20%, or rescaling it down to fit, resulting in an unreadable strip of art down the middle.
Note to Author
If you reformat it to make it usable, such as either of the following, I'll update my review. (The art deserves 5 stars)
- pdf with print-friendly page dimensions
- a jpg per dungeon (if you can't abide nasty page breaks in the art. This would allow client-side rendering to adapt to circumstances in a way the pdf format was designed to not do.)
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Hi Alexander - thanks for your feedback! These 'banner-style' maps are all drawn in segments, then pieced together (6 in total) to form the extra long map. As such, they can be printed as high res pdfs using the 'Multiple Pages' option while printing (Acrobat Reader). Each 'segment' is the size of a standard portrait page (8.5" x 11") and should match up when printed on a regular desktop printer. If one has access to a larger format printer or print shop and plan to print the entire map, then the large file size will ensure a better quality print (up to at least 200% without resolution loss). The product was designed with this in mind. That said, if a jpeg or png file will work better for you, feel free to send me an email ([email protected]) and I'll provide a link with these formats along with a smaller pdf (file size). I'm not sure if this completely addresses your issue, but thanks again for the feedback and it's something I will definitely keep in mind with future products, particularly these oversized maps. And I'm happy you like the art! - Randy M. |
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Here's what you NEED to know: This is the best dollar I've spent in a long time! I belive you will agree.
Not only do you get a wonderful map of a crazy-awesome site, but you get maps of locations within this spire, ideas about what happens there (including a menu for the inn in town), AND blank versions of all maps for YOU to fill in as you may. Look, this is the BEST dollar you'll spend today. Seriously.
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Most adventures give only the necessary information to run the adventure (fine), while others which provide a story for the setting or events read like a whitepaper. Jaunt: Blood in the Snow is different in the best of ways; it reads like a novel. With a rich history and real reasons for this small mountain town to exist and prosper, including it's conflicts and enough pieces to allow a GM to build with it, it's a beautiful place to be.
I've simply adapted the NPCs to Open Legend RPG and am excited to run the adventure.
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