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| People, Places, and Things: You are Here |
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I dont usually write reviews but I was pleasantly surprised by this product.
The plot ideas are good and the maps are well done. They picked useful locations but locations that are not often covered by other map products.
The ideas seem pretty creative and I'll have no problems using this 'as is' in future (modern setting) games.
That's what I was looking for and that's what I got.
I'll buy the next one if they do another.
The maps could be a little better keyed, but they work well enough.
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great product. The maps aren't very detailed but enough to make interesting combat and cover some modern things not found elsewhere. The descriptions are good enough to spark the imagination.
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A so-so product. You do get 29 maps, but some are rather small, being hardly more than a single room. The biggest shortcoming was the designer's choice to make the 'floors' garish candy colors, which will be a ink-killer if printed and distracting if used on a virtual table-top. Far better to go with B&W like the superb Oones line. Or at least left the floors uncolored. As it is, some maps are such a pastel explosion they are hard to use.
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People Places and Things
Modern games are helped with the addition of places. It can be hard to come up with what is in a local shop or even what kind of shop it is. These type of products I like since they can be used in a variety of game and systems. Props at the gaming like maps and things are fun and really help the players imagine what they are seeing.
People, Places and Things is a huge PDF by second Rat Games. The zip file is a little over seventy five megs in size. The product has many full color maps in separate PDF files that are intended to be printed it. This is not a PDF that is really designed to be only used from a computer. There is one PDF that does have descriptions of all the places here and that can be printed or used from a computer. That files has good lay out and is book marked. The maps are good looking and do not need book marks.
The book is more then just the twenty nine locations. Each also has plot hooks and they make it easy for a DM to use these places. There are a list of regulars, hours of operations, owner, cash on hand, items that can be found in the place either to be used as a weapon, stolen, or whatever. Each place is really well described though there are a few editing problems and things of that nature.
The maps though are probably the highlight of the book. The maps are multiple pages though on some of the pages they only use about a fourth of the page the rest being just a square grid. These empty squares I think would have been better with some bushes, an alley, parking lot, or something to fill up a large amount of blank space. That is really the only complaint I have with the maps. I think they are well done and colorful. They are easy to use and the standard minis seem to fit on the maps with ease.
There are a nice variety of locations here. There is a cyber cafe, an arcade, a resale shop, a Department of Motor Vehicles, a rest stop off a highway, a gun club, a hair salon, a small college bookstore, headquarters of a local ISP company, a restaurant and bar, an upscale restaurant, an old bookstore, an Italian fast food place, a church, tanning salon, bank, gas station and convenience store, hotel, parking garage, post office, a brick house, emergency care center, a data processing center, an old fashioned burger joint, night club, Goth clothing store, a French Bistro, dentist office, and a comedy club. As one can see there is a lot of buildings of a nice variety and it will really help flesh out a campaign that takes place mostly in the same city. The amount of different locations really impresses me.
People, Place, and Things is a really good set of places for any modern game. The book is system neutral making it easy to use with d20 Modern, World of Darkness, Feng Shui, Hero, or any other modern game. There is a lot if information in the book and it is easy to use once it is all printed out.
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<b>LIKED</b>: wide variety of places <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: maps just need a little more on the pages that the buildings are barely on<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>
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With this product you do not just get a bunch of battle maps butyou also get an 80 page book (plus front and back covers). The Battle Maps are functional but compared to other battle maps that are available, these are somewhat amateurish. The Maps are created with Dunjinni and has its logo on the bottom right hand corner of each one. Again I have seen better quality maps done with Dunjinni. Nearly all the maps have buildings which have corners or edges that go over to another page leaving ? of a page with a blank square grid. A few have a complete page with a blank square grid.
The book has a scaled down version of the battle maps for each location. Here the maps work well and are better suited to this use. The Book uses about 2 pages for each location which includes a general description of the place, its owner(s) and 3 plot ideas, usually one for supernatural, one for super hero and one for spy/espionage genres. The book has a number of silly typing/spelling errors and some of the page numbers are half covered by maps. The Artwork is in the form of general clipart but is OK. Despite it faults, the book is very useful and I have no regrets about buying it. I can see myself using it a lot for my modern RPG games and is a truly generic product. I hope to see an update soon and would consider buying any generic fantasy or/and Sci-fi products like this but must be at a better quality.
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<b>LIKED</b>: The Book, a Generic Modern RPG GM tool which has a lot of potential.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Silly spelling errors. Page numbers half covered by maps. The battle maps I am not even going to bother to print.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>
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