It meshes quite well with the Level Up Adventurer's Guide in both organization and content.

It took me a minute to recognize that the additional sheets I needed for a high-level spell caster were simply to be found in the additional sheets. After that, it occurred to me that those would be a great way of "finding" new spells in another caster's spellbooks. Nice! That's the only complaint I had with these sheets. My other issue is that I'm mostly using Level Up Advanced 5E for my characters now, so there are some significant differences between these sheets and what I need for those, but that is something else. For 5E itself, these sheets are very, very good.

It is easy to learn the rules. The hexagonal mapping tiles provide a varied game experience. I keep this game on my desk at home, playing a solo version of it at least once a week.

Nothing in life is perfect, but this comes pretty darn close.

First off, I'm impressed by the quality of the art tokens. So many counters out there (these are not VTT, but rather print-&-play) are simple line drawings, okay and usable. These, however, are colorful, detailed, realistic, and carry real personality. Kudos to the artists!

Also, the "Stop!" text boxes within each section ask sensible questions and provide quick directions as to where to find the answers. This is an improvement over an FAQ at the beginning or end of a book, as it responds to things a reader might naturally wonder about that are related to the section's main topic.

The tables are many and quite useful.

My only lament is that the table of contents is not linked, although the available thumbnails do the trick more slowly. Mind you, I'm a Luddite who hasn't yet learned how to hyperlink any documents myself, so I can't really complain.

Stephen,

I'm lovin' this series. The Fantasy City was very good, but Coastal really got me where my RPG heart lives. Growing up in the land-locked American Midwest, I never saw an ocean until I was twelve years old.

In the summer of 1966 my oldest brother was about to head with his Navy batallion to Viet Nam. My dad, knowing that war meant this might be his last chance to see his oldest son, packed up the family for a road trip from Minnesota to New England. (Jim did make it back, although he's one of the many victims, both Vietnamese and American, to suffer from exposure to Agent Orange.)

What that has to do with DMAP #2 is the visits we made to museum ships from Boston to Norfolk along the East Coast.The best of those was (and remains) the Mystic Seaport Museum. It's one of those "community re-enactment" places, having display shops set up with goods as they existed during the 18th- and 19th-century whaling heyday.

Once I started running RPGs, seaside sites became my favorite type of locale for starting my groups out. Over the years, I've accumulated sources for information on tides, storms at sea, and the like.

DMAP #2 ties these together in as nice a package as I've seen, both compact and useful. All that, and more of your wonderful NPCs!

Here's hoping you and your family remain safe and healthy, and having some fun, too.

Michael

I just finished playing this, and unusual for my normal first run through a solo adventure, my PC survived. That's even with failing all the Investigation checks for finding useful things and all the Perception checks for every trap I encountered. Thankfully, the traps didn't kill me. Down to only 7 hp during the final combat, I finally had a good roll that ended things with a successful hit and full damage on the weapon roll.

The narrated ending produced an item I know my PC had not found, but given how poor his Perception rolls were, I figured he must have picked it up without even noticing it - totally in character - LOL.

That assumption in the narrative might be something that needs correcting, but I'm going to play this again, making other choices to see if that item is found elsewhere in the story.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this! From other reviews, I see you have produced other adventures. It's time for me to go looking for them.

Spoiler The item was the magical sea chart.

Spoiler Blaise - I went back and re-read the passage for Failure on page 11. It wasn't my PC's powers of observation, but my own memory and poor note-making during play at fault.

You did clearly state things to indicate the importance of the map/chart. I, however, only wrote down the result of my d100 roll, which resulted in finding the common texts. Comparable in relative importance to picking up a popular magazine at the drug store and forgetting that I picked up a prescription, too.

I have self-applied an idiot-slap. Thanks again for a delightful adventure!

This series of 20 Quick [fill in the blank] are wonderfully realized snapshots that have proven easy to drop in to a scene. Thank you!

I appreciate a good list of names. Names with their meanings? That ... is excellence!

By and large I like these, especially the Expanded Equipment Packs sidebar. My only real quibble, which also applies to the PHB, is that the equipment packs do not show the weight of all the gear included.

Although gathering that info is no real chore, it's something that would be nice to see at a glance when equipping a character before play.

This is a satirical product. Some folks may not understand what that means.

This is a product for all the rest of us.

If' you've ever endured the presence of a player who tried to hog the limelight, sought to maximize all the face time and treasure to his/her own PC, tweak the rules to gain absolute advantage, wanted the session, the campaign, perhaps the world itself to revolve around them, you know the type.

The Special Snowflake had me laughing (and groaning) before I even bought the product. Reading the product itself lived up to my hopes.

There are moments when the class features looked (almost) reasonable, but Shamus Williams shows a knack for knowing how and when to pull the rug out from under reason.

I'm fairly certain that only a Special Snowflake would take offense at this contribution. Is it perfect? Of course not - that Domain is the sole property of the Special Snowflake.

One word of caution: if any gamer shows up to the table wanting to play one these, quietly gather your dice and run while you can!