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Only Monsters Here
Publisher: Chthonstone Games
by Andrew [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/16/2023 09:38:52

Five stars for content and composition, one star for format. Landscape format is nonsense. Can't read the book properly, can't fit it on a shelf.

But the content is great, like everything JM does.



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Woodfall
Publisher: Lazy_Litches_Loot
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/30/2021 12:28:53

Great concept and great execution.

I'm too lazy to write the kind of review that this deserves. Suffice to say that if you have any liking, or even just tolerance, for the oddball, buy this book and revel in a panoply of excellent playable concepts set in a very charming milieu. Don't be put off by the dreary vibe of the setting. It has that dreariness, but that is shot through with upbeat tone and hooks.

Wonderful stuff if you only ever read it.



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The World of Skarynth
Publisher: Magic Pig Media
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/09/2021 20:47:37

No-brainer for Sharp Swords users wanting extra options

Good addition to Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells. It has solid ideas firmly in the S&S arena with hints of CA Smith and Lovecraft. The world is alright, but you'll use your own, the character options are good, and the quest is solid enough to use as an intro. The whole thing has its chunky and its smooth bits, but for anyone using SS&SS and wanting some more options it's a no-brainer.



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Filling in the Blanks
Publisher: Third Kingdom Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/13/2021 15:57:14

I can't recommend this title. $10 for a PDF whose print quality is abysmal. I can't imagine that the POD is much better. Can't speak to the quality of the writing, but the product is junk.



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Warlock! Different Paths
Publisher: Fire Ruby Designs
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/26/2020 20:51:41

Great stuff. Bought and read a couple of days ago. I really appreciate the (mostly) linear expansion that Fire Ruby is going with so far. This piece simply takes the demihuman communities further on, with a good number of interesting new careers. Not scads of them, but all interesting.

Excellent layout again, clear and simple, with great black and white art. This is how you deliver solid information with zero fluff. The art here serves the document, as does the layout, the typography, all of it. This is excellent design in service of an excellent short book. Another worthy addition to Warlock.

Here is the brilliant thing about designs like Warlock's and games like Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells. With careers, or in SSSS vocations, you get in essence a whole suite of advantages and disadvantages in one phrase, for instance the "Halfling Gong Farmer" depicted on Mustafa Bekir's typically excellent cover. YOU define case by case what a dung cleaner would be good at and bad at. So you get not only the neat and funny background of being able to say that your PC literally shovelled sh*t, but practical effects easily applied with no need to consult any rule.

Buy all Warlock products right now! They are cheap, well written, great layout, great art. One of the best bargains in gaming.

My only gripes are (1) still too many typos and (2) the design should incorporate a back cover for the sake of printing while maintaining the four-up folio format. I print and bind my own books, so I've been rebuilding the doc with a back cover, but to be perfect, these docs should printable from the go in booklet form with a divisible-by-four page count, blanks where necessary to maintain that, and a blank or art-only back cover.



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Warlock!
Publisher: Fire Ruby Designs
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/19/2020 17:54:04

Obvious from the most cursory reading:

  • A solid, elegant, and easily hacked skill-based game written with clarity by Greg Saunders and illustrated very well by Mustafa Bekir, Denis McCarthy, JM Woiak and Heather Shinn.
  • Rock-solid layout with clean lines, ample whitespace and an excellent choice of font (some species of the typewriter font Letter Gothic). Well done by designer Paul Bourne.

Great work. This game is based on several of the more ancient games popular in Britain in Roman times or something. The only knowledge of FF or WHFRP I come to this with is that I own and have read Zweihander, and I am itching to play this. Right now my friend is running a game using a system we're not too crazy about and I've been recruited to choose the new system. I'll likely be choosing Warlock.

The single resolution mechanic, the Skill Roll, is simple. The Skill Roll is executed by adding your rating in Skill X to a d20 roll and try to match or beat the number 20.

What gives a lot of flavor to this simple mechanic is the Career system, with which many will be familiar. There are 32 Skills which will initially range from 4 to 6, whatever way you choose. After that, you choose a Career, which choice dictates the skills package you have, and thus which skills, and their maximum value, you can increase during the Career. And a design bit I love is that the Career itself is a skill, with a rating of the average of all the skills under its rubric. So if I am a Soldier, and I have ratings of Command 8, Bow 6, Dodge 10, Large Blade 8 and Polearm 6, that's 8+6+10+8+6 = 38/5 = 7.6 or 8, for a Soldier skill of 8. What's that good for? Well that's for when your Skilly skills don't exactly apply but you think for example "I'm a Soldier, I should be able to judge the worth of this unit tactic" or whatever. If it's important and another skill doesn't cover the act, and most importantly if the GM agrees, your "appraise tactic" skill is 8.

It's hard to describe, I guess, why this game balances (on a read, at least) so well on the simplicity - challenge axis. For those of us who tend to more simple frameworks upon which to erect our game stories, this is just plain good simple design, both in the game and in the book. Still too many typos in it for me to buy the hardcover just yet, but whatevs. 5 Stars, easily.



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Hexed Places - Ash Wood
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:25:36

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - The Gray Ribs
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:25:24

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - Bitterblack Forest
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:24:43

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products. I have no idea what the complaint is with it being zipped only, and the idea that you'd knock off a whole star, or two as the guy said he almost did, is a headshaker. Whatever, you can see that the author replied affirmatively, but the problem now is that, because this buyer can't handle a zip file, you get multiple items in the download, which is way more annoying to me as a frequent buyer than having to unzip.

Whatever. These products are uniformly great. No wasted space, great, solid ideas, each booklet can be the jumping off point for a whole campaign that could last you months.



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Creator Reply:
Andrew -- thanks for your kind reviews. To clarify for those who have not yet purchased Hexed Places, the zip archive contains all three files that are available individually, you can download either the zip or the separate files and end up with the exact same stuff. If anyone happens to find a Hexed Places that is missing a zip or individual files, please let me know! That's a mistake on my part and I'll correct it ASAP. Thanks again Andrew, I'm glad you're having fun with Hexed Places!
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Hexed Places - The Sharp Hills
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:19:05

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - Denshi Ferry
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:18:54

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - Crescent Lake
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:18:40

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - Two Fang Gap
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:18:28

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - The Bogwood
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:18:13

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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Hexed Places - Fen Fields
Publisher: PBE Games
by Andrew M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/26/2019 12:17:55

A MUST-BUY FOR SANDBOX GAMERUNNERS -- Please see my review of Five Pack #1 or #2, identical reviews of the bundles containing these products.



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