Hello Drifters game workshop, The imagination, and creatiivty of these three volmes is over the top. The backgrounds, the feat, and proficiency (harvesting kit) go alongway to filing out the characters, even if they are NPC's. Harvesters fill an important part of the economic/suply chain of magic items that is has not recieved enough attention (in my opinion). These are wonderful imagination engines, they provide a structure in which one can create a believable NPC,or add on to a PC to make their 'hobby' or 'avocation' lots more fun to role play. Voume 2 introduces hamunds have nots,which are small plot stories,and hooks that can help a DM fill out a towns help wanted board. The encounter ideas are sorted by CR number, which is just brilliant.

IF you ever revisit the Hamunds' Harvesting series. My one request is that you make the page numbers darker and thus easier to read.

I realy enjoy these volumes a great deal. I am looking forward to getting the herbs book soon.

I wish that I could date Hamund, he seems so worldly.

These guides are great as they add so much to the world and are really detailed.

My players love to try and loot and collection everything they can possibly find so these books give me a great answers and reference guides.

A thorough, logical and lovingly developed guide to really expand the game. It adds flavor and morality to both in-campaign and between campaign life for your players. The one addition I made for our table was a CR based XP table to go along with it.

The two extra volumes do mean you may need to rifle through all three to find the right monster but easily done.

The only thing I wish there was in addition was a Foundry/Forge/roll20 module so that I didn't have to create every harvestable and item by hand. Well worth it for what it brings to the game!

I have implimented this and the other two volumes in my game and I am loving it. There was a small ramp up of understanding to my players but they seem to enjoy it, especially if I give them a quest.

Everything I'm loving about the first, and a little bit more. The addition of posible fetch-quest style adventure hooks for the monsters of this volume and the last provide a wonderful cherry on top to a stressed GM looking for something to give his players if he is running low on prep to an interesting and key part of a story. Again, if your players want an in-depth, narratively driven, rewarding crafting experience for their magical items, or simply a cool additional reward from their first beholder kill as they brandish the powers of their fallen foes, look no further.

both books are just beyond useful enough said it makes things way more interesting to give players something if they remember to carve.

we use this for a Artificer character and it works perfectly! The Character is alchemist and it gives another layer to the gameplay and all the information needed is to find there. So worth 100%

Fantastic resource for making all sorts of interesting things out of all the beasts your players are going to be killing anyway. No longer will they kill a monster only to be disappointed when it isn't carrying a whole bunch of loot, because it becomes the loot!

For some, there is a strong morality in not letting anything go to waste. Ignoring the fact that what we don’t use from the carcasses goes to feed scavengers (gelatinous cubes gotta eat too!), insects, fungi, and bacteria, I contend we do have a responsibility to be good stewards. It’s irresponsible to not harvest these parts and put them to good use if we can. If someone were to slay me in battle I would hope they’d consider my femur for a good sword handle. If they wore my face like a mask…might be weird, but okay.

You'll have a blast with this Handbook! Just as enjoyable as the first but different enough (thanks to using Volo's monsters) to merit being a second edition.

Read more: https://www.nonzerosumgames.com/hamunds-harvesting-handbook-volume-2/

Got the first handbook off a friend and wanted the second. I love it! Monster slaying has become a new joy for everyone. This book makes players willfully seek out monsters to collect specific parts for quests, potions or rituals. When players need an item from a certain monster it tells the dm which monsters can be placed throughout your world. It forces the players to travel around and not get stuck going back and forth between familiar spots when they lose track of where they need to go next. It also inspires the dm to create situations where a specific part is needed from a monster the dm may wish to include. Even if a specific part isn't needed it can still be sold or kept as a trophy of victory. Many players of mine have collected stuff like teeth, hands, or hotdogs from dead foes, now they can collect other valuables as well. I am very impressed with these books as they have easily helped me improve my dming skills.