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The Histories, Volume I: L'Empereur's Salon
Publisher: Four Horsemen Publishing
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/25/2016 07:45:30

What can I say that wasn't already said?

The class looks like it would work well in play (I have yet to try it though). The first section, "Folk of the Realm" has a couple antagonists, statted out individually they look like they could be used but not give off a feel for a sessions premise. But when together in a single spot you can see a couple different ways to use them all in harmony.

The one monster I will most likely not use, but the 10 magic items will go into my "shiny things for Players" gm folder.

Overall, I like it and think the price is fair. It would have been nice to have a 2nd creature described under the monsters section, but that is just me being greedy. :)



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Chill 3rd Edition Character Sheets & Pregens
Publisher: Martin Caron
by Thomas N. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/06/2015 13:05:26

While it is great to have all these pregens. The blank character sheet was disappointing. It still contained printing marks (dashes in the corners) and had a page size of 9.08"x12.08". And because of this it does not work well for printing out home or on a 8.5"x11" page (without creating a new Character Sheet of appropriate size).



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Chill Third Edition
Publisher: Martin Caron
by Thomas N. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/06/2015 12:59:31

With this being my first review (I plan on going through my backlog of purchases) I may seem harsh to some. Chill is beloved by many from high school days of gaming and college nights or terrible vampires and mummies! But I don't have those memories, and I have not seen the previous editions before either. But based on name alone I knew that I had to purchase the new 3rd Edition. I ordered a hardcover copy from elsewhere, and the PDF copy here. And it was difficult to enjoy this book:

The art is inconsistent. There are images that most likely were just edited using photoshop, and then there was the beautiful cover! But then there was the amateurish creature artwork. It was all over the place and didn't resemble a clear direction graphically. Like it wasn't committed one way or the other.

The text of the game itself has an apparent number of typos, misplaced words/sentences, and just was difficult to read due to organization. Again, I may be being critical... But 20 pages of pregens before I know what the traits were or how to use the pregens is a little ridiculous. And that the information for the core of the Characters (being the attributes!) is found on page 58 while character creation starts on about page 22. The information on traits was after the information for how to grow your character through advancement from session to session.

That isn't to say I didn't enjoy the chapter that focused on the history of SAVE (the organization that the Players Characters are a part of in the game). But the information was scattered! With references to events without having been hinted at and that would only be further explained pages later. The chapter that I enjoyed suffered from the same typos and organization as the rest of the book. However! There was a short bullet point timeline that helped ease things on the last pages of the chapter. Even if what looked like major events in the timeline weren't mentioned in the history of SAVE.

Overall, I would not recommend this book to someone who would read it. Page by page in order. Or even as a material to search through like a dictionary. Seeing as the references generally don't give page numbers in the text.

I was greatly dissappointed. And had a lot more to say about it in my full writeup (which can be found here: http://orbitabovegames.com/2015/10/06/an-opinion-on-chill-3rd-edition-from-growling-door-games/).

I hope that in the future it is greatly revised and rewritten.



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