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The RoadWarrior GM's Missing Hand

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The RoadWarrior GM's Missing Hand
Publisher: Black Shark Enterprises
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/15/2016 16:54:22

Is this product worth even two bucks? At the end of the day, no. The biggest problem I have with this product is the number of pages which have no game information on them -- which gives the impression that they're put in solely to inflate the page count.

There are three pages of front-matter and a single page Table of Contents (four pages with no actual game information, just pretty pictures and product identification), and at the end of the document, there are another two pages for advertisements for other Black Shark Enterprises products, two pages for the Open Gaming License information and one page with "author's notes" (another five pages of nothing, in other words). This leaves eleven pages of actual material. However, there is quite a bit of artwork spread throughout; I think the art is actually pretty good, but there's so much of it that I get the feeling it's included to pad the page count -- especially since several pieces of art appear in more than one place. A handful of pieces throughout -- sure, that'd be cool, but this was too much.

The other thing I noticed which rubbed me the wrong way was the use of slightly altered names in order to avoid copyright issues -- like using "Chevlon" motor oil, for example, when the actual company is called "Chevron". With this sort of thing, it comes across as goofy. I'd rather see the table list something like "[1d6] quarts of motor oil, still sealed" instead of "55 gallon drums of 10w40 Chevlon Motor Oil".

The formatting was mediocre at best; spelling, grammar, and capitalization all needed work.

In my opinion, it wouldn't take too much more work to really spruce it up and make it actually worth the money.



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[2 of 5 Stars!]
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The RoadWarrior GM's Missing Hand
Publisher: Black Shark Enterprises
by Brian J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/15/2016 15:28:55

If a Deadpool Cosplayer is your idea of a postapocalyptic merchant or you think 20% of the merchant suggestions should be sexually-related, this book is for you. If you don't mind typos like "Tamen Noodles" and "Fayglow Orange" and you want your post-apocalyptic game to focus on oh-so-mid-2010s references like Nintendo DS and Frozen, this book is for you. If you aren't familiar with genre material already and won't spot the ripoffs (right down to Fallout's Nuka Cola, but there are many others), there's material in this book that will be novel. If you'll laugh at a reference to Juggalos or scatological wordplay (I'm being generous; one of the 'places' is named "Poop") and you want to see pickup trucks made of Lego blocks - again, by all means, grab this.

If you're looking to flesh out a gritty postapocalyptic campaign with some new ideas and you've already watched a couple Mad Max films and played a PC game or two, you can move on without worrying about missing any gems. About half of the book is at least usable, but it's irritating that so much of the material is either obviously plagiarized or simply too absurd to be usable - even in a joke-heavy Wild Wasteland sort of setting.



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[2 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thank you for taking your time to review our product. I am sorry that you found less than half of the book usable. If you reply with a paypal address, I will happily refund you $1.75 so that you can feel as though you have gotten a bargain.
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