The Endril are one of the most interesting humanoids I have come across and are well worth the 5 stars for this book alone. They are 'alien' enough to be interesting without being so extreme that they could not easily fit into a campaign.

Almost all the other tentacles have something that makes them stand out from other 'monsters' making them suitable for memorable encounters.

Like the other books, there are details that need expanding on (what does a Viper Shroud do with the poison it drains) and obvious errors (presumably groups must do something other than just wake to cause the FrostSpine to wake) but most GMs should be able to come up with their own answers and modify as required.

Of the 5 books I found this one the least useful. Whilst it certainly may be useful to some, I could not think of any reason that I would use these in preference to similar beasts from other sources (e.g. the other books). Having said that, there is nothing wrong with any individual entry.

Inventive.

The book has similar errors to ... Encyclopedia of Boneless Beasts: Slimes ... but this has been acknowledged by the author.

For inventiveness and the inclusion of mini ecologies for each slime (plus the general dsecription at the end of the book) I wanted to give this product 5 stars. I wouldn't have thought that slimes could be that interesting but the author has made them so.

However, I had to reduce the score due to the following spotted on a single reading.

Capitals: There should be consistency in the use of initial capitals for names e.g. on page 2 we have 'Burning Slime' and 'burning slime'. There should also be consistency in capitals for 'slime', 'jellies; and 'oozes' e.g. on page 23 we have 'Often Oozes and Slimes', on page 24 we have 'jellies, Oozes, and slimes' and on page 26 'jellies, oozes, and slimes'.

Capitals: I don't know what the official guildelines are regarding the initial capitals for Damange Immunities but we have, for example, on P.2 Fire but on page 12 acid; bludgeoning...

Capitals: In the phrase 'Blind Beyond This Radius' shouldn't only the first word have initial capitals?

P.4 Sticky Bombs - Wrong heading style.

P.12 (and following pages) 'Damage Resistances acid;' should not have a semicolon.

P.14 Copper slime's description mentions an electrical attack which is not in the game stats.

P.14 and P.17 Both the copper and iron slimes have spikes, so shouldn't their attacks be Piercing and not Bludgeoning?

P.17 Lifecycle. The second sentence starts with 'They' which presumably should refers to the slime's young; but the first sentence never uses that (or similar) term.

P.17 'Relationship with humans' should be a heading.

P.18 Near end of stat box, LEatherporter should be Leatherporter.

P.18 The last two sentences need clarification as the first of these say the host can eventually remove the slime but the second says it can't since they are dead!

P.19 Last paragraph on left, first sentence; 'Iron Corpse' should be 'Ironcorpse'.

P.19 The last paragraph of the game stats refers to a Leather Slime and not a Plated Slime.

P.20 The last line of Leogan, 'counterspell' should be 'Counterspell'.

P.22 Under 'Behaviour' it is unclear why the slime could be trapped when the portal closes. If they are "in the past" what prevents them just opening a new portal? If, instead, they are between times (i.e. the portal is a corridor rather than a door) then does this mean that the creation of ANY time portal releases them?

P.22 The pargraph under 'Relationship with humans' indicates that the slime can beneficially slow time, but the 'adventuring gear' description only has negative effects so clarification needed.

P.22 Start of first paragraph on the right, 'Slime-piece' should be 'Slime-pieces' (add 's').

P.22 Start of second paragraph on the right, 'Slime pieces' should be 'Slime-pieces' (add '-').

P.23 End of the 'adventuring gear' description, 'Slime Time Dial' should be 'Slime Dial' (time does not form part of the name).

P.25 'Katharzoa of the class Amorphozoa' should be 'Class' (only case of initial lower case).

P.25 Under 'Slimes - Laspizoa', 'Species of this genus' should be 'Genus' (only case of initial lower case).

This is a simple system. PCs are defined by a set of labels. When a dice roll is required the player rolls upto 2 dice (d6s) and takes the best or worst result depending on the difficulty of the task and relevant labels of the PC.

The simplicity makes this a solid RPG which would be suitable for beginners, but which I feel would be unlikely to maintain a campaign or the interest of experienced roleplayers.

The only negative is that as an 'early access' book there are a significant number of grammatical errors. I suspect that this may be because the writer does not have English as their first language? None of these errors, however, prevent understanding of the rules.

Whilst it is hard to review a simple list, I do feel that this particular one is well above average. Whilst some of the events are ones I have seen elsewhere, this is not a problem for a list that you roll randomly on. However, there are enough unique ideas that even if, like me, you pick from lists, it is still worth a look.

PS: There is one typo - Draught should be Drought.

Thilo G's review comprehensively covers the content. Whilst my opinion on individual bloodlines may be different from his, I have to agree that overall this is a solid product as those that I like (e.g. Crystal) I really like.

The only negative, for me, is the Cunning Sorcerer archetype whose lack of bloodline powers and arcana surely removes one of the key elements of what makes a sorcerer a sorcerer - however this is such a small part of the whole document that it did not affect my rating.

I really wanted to like this product as having 50 sound effects would have been very useful, and some of them will be.

The reason, however, for only 2 stars is that the 50 seem to have been created by a relatively small number of sound effects which have been mixed together. Hence 'Desert Cave Campfire' is simply 'Desert Cave' with a fire effect - and the sounds used for Desert Cave are reused in the other Cave audios.

In itself this 'mixing' is not a problem for individual audios, but if player's hear more than one of these audios they will hear a 'sameness'.

The best thing about this supplement is the inventiveness of the monster descriptions. Even though I will be using these monsters in a campaign run using a completely different RPG system, the descriptions are enough to make the book worthwhile for me.

I also liked the fact that not all of the "monsters" are killers, some are helpful - which makes a nice change of pace.

Only one small negative - the text of Bad Beer states it drowns its victims, but the image shows an acid effect.

I can only agree with Marco's and Luka's reviews.

The first half of the book on creating factions helps put the second half in context, but also provides plenty for GMs to think about when creating their own.

The 20 factions in the second half, whilst most suited to the fantasy genre, could (with a few exceptions) be converted into SciFi or Steampunk with very little effort. Personally, I can see uses for 17 of the 20 which is a good hit rate. I especially liked The Sculptors (which are a very inventive take on slavers), Knights of Custodia (a fantasy WWF) and the God's Riders (although, ironically, I may reduce the religious element of this one).

Altogether a product that is well worth the money.

A brilliant collection of ideas. Whilst I have come across a few of them in other fantasy media (books, RPGs and artwork) the majority are unique and inventive. Some of the ideas could act as seeds for GMs to expand on into whole scenarios - which is what I will be doing.

At its price, any GM that creates their own worlds should invest in this.

In my review of Dark Cities I said that there was too much overlap of scenario ideas. In Edge of the Wilds there is an over use of outlaws, vengeful forest spirits and, to a lesser extent, madness but otherwise this is less of a problem and hence the product deserves its 4 stars rather than the 3 that I gave Dark Cities.

I especially liked 'Silent Stealing' which is adds interesting complications to a theft scenario, 'The Racing Game' which adds a diplomatic element to a guard scenario, 'Election Time' which would last many gaming sessions and 'The Devil of Korrenwald' which adds a twist to monster hunting.

This product is useful in that some of the festival ideas are so unusual that if, as a GM, you ask yourself WHY the village has the festival it opens up the posibility of all sorts of background colour.

However, I can only give the product 2 stars as some of the ideas are 18 rated (with no warning that this would be the case in its description) and others are, in my opinion, in bad taste and borderline offensive.

This is a good set of scenario ideas with enough detail that GMs can easily expand on them to create full scenarios. Of the 100 (120 if you include the random table) ideas I can see me using up to 30 of them which makes it good value for money.

The only reason I have given it 3 stars rather than 4 is that there is a lot of overlap in ideas. Whilst having multiple versions of the same idea is not in itself bad, it gives GMs a number of different approaches depending on their play style, I feel that some ideas - especially mass murder, mind control (in various forms including possession) and NPCs being other than they seem to be (shapechangers, illusion, masks) - are overused. Once you have run one of these, it would be difficult to run one of the others without it feel stale.

However, I don't want to end on a bad note. As said, even with the overlaps this should provide many hours of good roleplaying opportunities.

Perhaps a bit too strange!

I bought this book for ideas for a campaign that I am creating from scratch with its own rules. Of the seven races, two (the Painterlily and Shadowfriend) will be used in an altered form. A third, the Blesmolefolk, are interesting and I can see myself using them in some form in a different campaign. Finally, whilst I don't think Kindercloaks work as a PC race due to their hivemind, they could be a 'monster' race and so are 'possibles'.

Those I will not be using are Bunnytaurs (just silly), Merriepetals (there are better plant based racs) and Misborn (requires a specific background for what happens after death).