This product accomplishes precisely what it claims - it provides short descriptions to liven up your dungeon. You can use it while designing your dungeon or you can introduce bits on the fly if things get dull. Many GMs I have played under desperately require a resource like this.

It's in black and white, with 16 pages of descriptions, including 100 Dungeon Bits (divided into sights, sounds and smells), 6 Dungeon Shards (more complicated situations, often the remains of previous adventurers), 8 Catacombs (you know, tombs and stuff) and 6 Bits of Trouble (traps and encounters) and 5 pieces of original art. Following that there's an index, which classify the descriptions as hallways, rooms, stairs, indications of abandonment, evidence of previous travelers (a staple in my campaigns), signs of intelligence, inspiring dread and mood setters, and then all of the descriptions are repeated in index card form.

Buy it - if you run dungeons, your campaign will improve.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The index and organization. I wasn't expecting that.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The assumed setting is too Gygaxian for my campaign. Easily fixed, of course.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

I was a bit worried when the first and third idea in this set were essentially the same, but fortunately that was not a sign of things to come. Like the first set, it's full of original ideas. I counted 34 seperate seeds. They won't all resonate with you, but many should. While reading it, I mentally sketched out two encounters, two one-shot adventures, plus a new campaign. That's not bad for US$0.50.

The product includes both four colour and black and white versions. Both are in landscape. It would have been nice if the print version was in portrait.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Well written, well presented.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Too many Gygaxian references. I don't run a high fantasy campaign.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

A very nice system, with 12 useful NPCs and sheets to help the GM use them (including d20 stats). Most of them can be used in a non-Gygaxian setting.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Extra points for saying "Bree-Yark".<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: It could have used a sheet for players to record their contacts.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

A nice collection for anyone who uses Goblins for NPCs or PCs. It has a professional design, it's easy to print, and it's easy to read.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The sample ambush. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The scrimshaws were a good idea, but suffer fatally from poor wording.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Most of the items seem to have been created as follows: Pick a creature from the SRD, lop off a piece, affix a price to it. Some are original items, though.

The layout is nice and easy to print.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The flavour text for the idgredients.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: No crunch or originality.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Disappointed<br>

Excellent idea, and well executed. It may be abusable by Munchkins, so be prepared as a DM to sometimes say "No".

The layout could have been better.

Very good product. Its uses are manifold: 1) It provides stats for the NPCs you'll overlook while creating your adventure. 2) It's a review of a european medieval world. If you like Ars Magica, this book is for you. 3) It provides a baseline for a campaign world. It's hard for a character to feel a high Ability Score is special if everybody they meet has high Ability Scores too. This book fixes that, by introducing scores of commoners with average Abilities.

Very nice. Lack of a table of contents makes it less useful during a game when you need an art object quickly.

This is the best d20 supplement I've ever read, bar none (that includes the couple of dozen print products I own in addition to all my pdfs). It grasps the big picture while simultaneously remembering the little touches.

Feats for everybody, spells with originality, items that are obvious only in retrospect, monsters you'll use, prestige classes that work, and NPCs to top it off. Plus the layout is better than WotC's.

I hope whoever is rewriting the core books for version 3.5 is paying attention. This is how rulebooks should be done.

Please keep writing, Joe.

Quantity over quality. There are a few good, original ideas (The Corpulent, The New Treant), but I'm dubious as to how balanced most of the classes are.