This supplement clocks in at seven pages, including five pages of content. After the cover, we jump right into the crunch (no table of contents). In this installment, we get 20 magic items, four helmets, seven shields, and nine armors. As in the previous installment, every item includes xp in its crafting cost, per 3.5 rules. If you are using Pathfinder crafting rules, you can simply ignore the xp cost.
One piece of mundane equipment that I always wanted to like but never received enough love in the system is the tower shield. In this supplement, we get The Door, a 23500 gp magic tower shield. It opens a five-foot-long hallway which can go through solids it is attached to, and crush anyone inside when it is moved.
On the cheap end, there is a 1000 gp helmet ironically called Old Reliable, which provides DR 2/-, but only against attacks which exactly match your AC. It’s a nice alteration to the usual all-or-nothing nature of the d20 system.
On the high end, there is the Tortoise Plate, a 42500 full plate. It allows the wearer to retract their limbs inside the “shell” like a tortoise, granting a variety of immunities and resistances, and a slam attack.
There is almost no visual artwork in this product.
Short Term Use: Every item in this supplement can be dropped into a campaign without trouble. The effects are sufficiently interesting and varied to make the game immediately more enjoyable. At such a low price, this is an easy 5/5.
Long Term Use: This supplement is hands down better than the rest of the [i]Ooh, Shiny![/i] series. Finally getting a well-designed tower shield is great all on its own. Some items in this supplement are more amenable to modifying with further enhancements than others, so the relative quality of each item are different in the long run than the short run. Nevertheless, there are enough interesting effects in here to merit a long term rating of 4.5/5, rounded up to 5 due to the low price.
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