Do you have a fashion conscious player in your party? Do your adventurers prefer design named treasure to the store brand stuff? Are they willing to pay a bit more for an item that is made of designer materials? Then 101 Mundane Treasures is for you. I picked this up because, honestly, you can only roll on the random treasure table so many times before you get tired of mock eye patches and dragon shaped combs. Heck, one player actually has a box full of the damn combs. It?s become a running joke. Whenever it comes up she?ll ask what color dragon, and pretends to get excited when it is a color she doesn?t have.

The organization of the product is a bit weird. For example, demon hide is introduced on page 4. But additional information is added to a sidebar on page 6 (along with additional information for Glow Steel and Star metal). Yes, it?s supposed to be an ?alternative? information sidebar, but it?s the kind of thing that makes you go hunting for all the information.

I was a little disappointed in the selection of mundane armor. With the exception of the Dragon Helm, most of the pieces were normal, everyday armor pieces decorated with a few gems to increase their value and maybe some flourishes and designs. The clothing items proved much better, taking mundane pieces of clothing and using odd materials and such to get different effects. The jewelry items were very nice as well and were interesting. Definitely a nice change of pace over the typical sapphire ring or pearl necklace you?d normally throw in the treasure trove for variety.

I actually like this product a lot, as a DM, it?s sure to throw off the players. Based on the descriptions and the names of some of these items, I can see my spellcasters wasting their see magic and identify spells trying to determine what they do (since I?ll probably feel the need to through a false dweomer on some of them). But many of the items have no benefit other than a cool name and a high price tag. So DMs need to be careful about throwing them into treasure piles, as you could find yourself with a party with too much money after they sold everything.
<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: New items inspire a lot of new ideas to do stuff for my game, and it's something other than a dragon comb.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Item prices can make a party to wealthy too quick if a DM isn't careful.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Good product. Well worth the purchase. Could use random selection of items still... :)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Good product. Well worth the purchase. Could use random selection of items still... :)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

After reading a few reviews for this product I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did. It's very useful for throwing random items into a treasure horde. There are so many interesting items in this PDF that I plan on using in my game. It's nice to be able to add items into a treasure horde that my players are not familiar with. I liked this product so much that I just bought the sequel, Another 101 Mundane Treasures.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The many interesting and unique items. Very easy to read and print out. Good artwork. Easy to use in nearly any campaign.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: I found a few minor spelling and grammar errors that should have been caught during editing. Nothing major though. It does not take away from the worthwhile nature of this product.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

I haven't downloaded many supplements in the past, but this is the type of material that I find very useful for campaigns. I like to run a low-magic world, and treasures such as these are precisely what get players excited, without having to throw a lot of magic their way to appease their treasure lust! <br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Products were described in good detail, showing vivid imagination yet maintaining realism. Values for each object were broken down, explaining WHY the treasure is appraised at certain values.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: That there weren't 102. ;)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This is really quite a useful piece of work. The items are nicely detailed and with just about enough specifics to incorporate variations or twists. Just glancing through some of these items is already enough to trigger some simple adventure hooks in my head.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The descriptions, the mechanics, and the crunchy bits. Oh, those few pictures are a nice touch.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Not much actually. Maybe a lack of a summary "At a Glance" table?<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Very good. I Will some of these as-is, others are a good start.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This offers a great selection of plain, thoe not quite ordinary, non-magical items that you can drop into your "loot". Great for any GM who wants to reward their players without giving them just gold or an overpowering magic item.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

I found these items very useful. It's easy to work them into a storyline, when appropriate, and the variety sparks the imagination.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

A broader spectrum of mundane items is always essential. <br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Truly original ideas and creative twists on old standbys. Thank you for this product!<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Easy to use and incorporate<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: A little pricey<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Not bad give lots of mundane items to through into quests interesting reading.

First of all you get lots of different things to use staight out of the box. Just select what you like and take it off the book. Your players will love it! Each item is very special, so you better follow the advise to mark the already used items, so you won't have them presented to your players more than once. Unless of course, this is what you want. All items are classified for being armor, clothing, jewelry, miscellaneous, musical instruments or weapons. Their value range from virtually nothing to tens of thousands. Since they are all "mundane" don't expect any high magic items. Yet there are a fair amount of them having special (interesting) abilities. Each item has descriptions of its appearace, its value and the difficulty to discover it (appraise check) and special rules (if any). Also, you will find a small section about unusual materials, from which to construct your own mundane treasures. This section, as well as the rest of the booklet, can be used as a clue how to expand on the theme. And this is, in my opinion, the best part of it all. Take the information as a clue or guidance, how to make the kind of items described here on your own. Thus this material is both: a ready to use compilation of "out of the box" items, and a sourcebook of intriguing ideas. The five nice illustrations by Christopher Shy show five of the items and could be an additional enhancement to your adventure.

A collection of reasonably diverse and fairly described mundane miscellania for the party to loot from their defeated, but well and stylishly appointed, foes. Not everything will suit everyone, of course, but that's why there's 101 of them, ne?