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The New Argonauts
Publisher: Sean K Reynolds Games
by Remi F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/30/2004 00:00:00

The New Argonauts is a most unique low-magic adventure setting. Firstly, the detailed Greek mythology servers as excellent background flavor for the overall game. Most importantly though, is the authentic feel of playing Greek heroes with all the benefits and limitation attributed to the classic heroes of Greek mythology. The feats and magic items are very balanced for a low-magic campaign, especially the healing feats (Field Surgeon, Hellenic Priest) available to several character classes due to the absence of classic d20 clerics. ;)<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The Bloodline powers are a great way to add heroic powers gifted to mortals by the gods (as narrated in many Greek legends). I strongly recommend this book for fans of low-magic games, but warn those who love playing spellcasters that The New Argonauts may seem restrictive in terms of character class options.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Spellcasters are very scarce in the game, and those that do exist, such as the Hellenic Sorceress are suggested for female characters (from examples in the book), since most of the other heroes are presumed to be male. This is not a compulsory rule, but in keeping with the classic Greek myths, this makes sense. The restriction on other classes such as paladins also makes sense, since paladins are more medieval era than ancient era heroes, but some players may not like such restrictions.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



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Libem Liborium: The Complete d20 Guide to Books
Publisher: 12 to Midnight
by Remi F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/30/2004 00:00:00

Libem Liborium is an interesting sort of add-on material for the popular d20 fantasy games. Instead of concentrating on adventuring warriors or power-hungry magicians, this book focus on the often-overlooked aspect of journals, diaries and adventure logs. Many great adventurers often kept diaries of their fantastic journeys. (Though this may be off-topic, Libem Liborum reminded me of the Captains log kept by Starfleet captains like Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard). In keeping within the realms of fantasy, some favorite wise sages such as Elminister of the Forgotten Realms of Faerun, now have the game mechanics to create and distribute their wizardly knowledge and experience to novice mages. ;)<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: With Libem Liborium, the Game Master, finally, has all the rules required to ensure that adventure journals form an integral part of the campaign, and not just flavor in the story background. Therefore, I would suggest adding Libem Liborium to the campaigns of all those gamers interested in true Role Playing and not just Hack-n-Slash combat.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: There was not much to dislike. But if forced to select something, then I would say the very strong focus on authoring books may distract from other aspects of role playing, as gamers get carried away with creating masterpieces of literary work within their game world, at the expense of actually adventuring. Now is that so bad? I think not, but violent gamers may hate this.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



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Template Troves, Volume I: Serpents, Spiders & Godlings
Publisher: Silverthorne Games
by Remi F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/30/2004 00:00:00

Template Troves is a collection of variant creature templates designed to enhance a high-fantasy d20 game. The detailed mechanics presented by Sean K. Reynolds, lives up to his reputation for high quality material. Now with his new label ?Sean K. Reynolds Games?, the gaming community finally has a way to collect all his great work in one place. Template troves has some truly unique character templates. Though some work by Sean K. Reynolds on character templates for Wizards of the Coast is not include here. Well we cannot have it all, can we?

Hence, since some of my favorite templates by Sean K. Reynolds were forced to remain absent from this book, I subract 1-star from an otherwise 5-star book. ;)<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Some of the templates like the Arnarch, Gullinburstin and Sleipnirrin, make excellent mythical monsters. Though the title of this particular volume of Template Troves concentrates on Spiders, Serpents and Godlings, there is enough of a variety in monsters to satisfy any Game Master. Thus, I recommend this book for those Game Masters interested in expanding their array of variant monsters. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: This book is so great, there is not much to dislike, except maybe the inside artwork. It could have been better, but then again, very good artwork costs lots of money, and needs the kind of the artist who work for Wizards of the Coast. The cover artwork, is excellent though.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



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Runecards
Publisher: Distant Horizons Games company
by Remi F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/30/2004 00:00:00

Runecards introduces a novel approach to enhancing a standard Role Playing game with cards as the drivers of adventure plots. <br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The wide variety of adventure ideas that can be developed from the very many Runecards presented in this book. Also the variant feats and magic items make great additions to any d20 game. Runecards genrally present a fun alternative magic system, including new feats and magic items. This is a good book for gamers wishing to add some flavor to their standard d20 games. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: However, the very many archaic names of the cards can be overwhelming to Game Masters already over-burdened by all the rules in d20 games. <br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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d20Zine! - March 2003
Publisher: DragonWing Games
by Remi F.
Date Added: 11/30/2003 00:00:00

I initially downloaded this issue from the d20zines website. However, there is something in this magazine that I wished other gamers to sample, so I leave my comments here.

The Collectible Card Game d20 (CCG d20) on page 10-33 is worth downloading this e-zine. There is so much good information including characters, rules and ideas that will surely please any CCG player (novice or veteran).

With many great articles and reviews, d20zines is a superb online magazine.

Remi Fayomi EsoTerrana RPG



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