The [Super] tag takes one of the best parts of the spheres system and applies it to more content, a genuinely extremely useful move.

While most of the content is meant to be silly and overtuned by design, it still feels polished and intently. Highly recommend this.

A long-time coming but deliriously needed. Nexus has always been an odd-duck amongst akashic classes, seemingly paying out the nose for a half level in d6s at-will blast....something many veils could produce on stronger chassis

Great retelling. Please look forward to the retold compilation by this studio that's in playtest.

he only thing causing this to escape a 5-star rating is that some choices remain that allow for a complete decoupling of how AC traditionally functions at different level ranges & how veil weapons (while consistent with other studio M releases) just do a little too much damage for free. Fixing that issue is outside the scope of a book like this and I otherwise recommend picking it up.

Short, sweet high-quality holiday themed content with the steady consistency of an author thats immersed themself in this system.

Solid. Not the biggest fan of making it 6/9ths akashic + something else with the inclusion of path of war being knocked down from full. Overall a great cleanup of a class with hidden powergaming options that were frustrating to deal with a more even experience.

Be careful of which paths you allow, as some are strictly superior to others or may use subsystems you're not familiar with.

Another excellent DRS release. Dark sphere has been effective as a trick but not as a deep investment while also including frustrating choices and traps.

This fixes all of the above and introduces new options to enjoy specializing in weaving darkness.

Absolutely stunning book. Great to work with without upending the game to make them fit for the environment they were designed for. Plus they're extra fun if you're a fan of final fantasy, jojo's bizarre adventure or just being a cool monster.

An amazing tool for players and GMs to include more tech-y themed abilities and characters into their games without the mistakes normally seen in tech-based supplements for games. Highly recommend picking this up.

Where to start...thankfully, the section about DMs not allowing players to use this supplement as being discriminitory against their origins was removed.

However, despite working with a consulting firm meant to avoid such issues, you can deliberately cripple yourself physically for superpowers. This is in addition to the new base class that attempts to mimic racial paragons of editions past, about becoming more powerful via accumulating physical traits normally associated with race, despite the book treating that word like taboo.

Furthermore, as is common with Matt Daley products, power creep is rampant. As a tool for DMs? It wasn't even initially intended as one and it somehow does a poorer job of the default Paizo race build even with its plentiful number of issues.

I would not reccomend this book for DMs or players looking to make new races or to respectfully handle disabillity in their games and it hurts to say that I've come to expect works like this from Dead Drop Studios when the author of this book and others I've reviewed is at the helm.

Not only does this book feature horrifically overpowered general content, basic no-prerequisites feats that power creep the signature ability of a sphere's specific +5 or more CR template, it also tries to imply the very thoughtful and helpful guidelines for determining Magic Skill Bonus/Defense in order to prevent certain types of monster hitdie from being entirely uninteractble should not be used for no tangible reason.

The drow noble+++ the book offers sets poor precedent instead of just using racial hitdie to demonstrate a superior creautre on the species level.

Lastly, the pre-written monsters and templates are horrifically broken and would be nearly unusable as a DM due to how little a player can do to fight fairly, seemingly only here to give bad DMs plausible deniability for poor encounter design.

Amalgamate creature powercreeps the Mythic Agile template and then some. Antimemtic creature is just a spiteful jab at the only way players are supposed to learn how to use their abilities correctly.

The presented monsters are built so optimally using character levels and, to borrow an analogy from competitive card games, netdecked meta strategies, it would seem the horrically powerful and game-balance-busting options written by the author in books prior are encouraged if not required to beat these creatures. Which is sadly a trend for the Bestiaries penned by Matt Daley and published throgh Dead Drop Studios.

I was hoping for another book with the Quality of Beast Tamer's or Undead and Immortal Forlorn, but it seems I was mistaken.

A simple, flavor and effective archtype for Barbarian. A desperately deserved addition after Bloodrager stole barbarian's lunch all those years ago.

Highly reccomend for lovers of all things dwarven, angry and drunk.

An absolutely fabulous quick-fix and insight into making more races a valid and valuable choice for Pathfinder 1st Edition. By leveling the playing field on what is a very proveable level, this allows DMs to focus more on what defines a species in their worldbuilding on a more flavorful level while maintaining parity amongst player options.

Absolutely reccomenmd for any DM, and even players, looking to make more meaningful choices at one of the earliest steps of character building.

Unlike Fiends of the Cosmos, I feel like Demons of the Abyss: Rank and File actually achieves the goals of what a Spheres-using Bestiary should look like. This gives DMs the tools they need to run their favorite monsters from the Abyss in a Spheres game without introducing headache or argument causers like bringing back the Sacred Cow that is Wish.

I eagerly look forward to more bestiaries in this format, and the latter half of this bestiary which I picked up today.

I hope this becomes the quality I can look forward to from DDS bestiaries, as I felt fiends from the cosmos was a harsh decline from Magical Beasts and Climactic Encounters and Undead and the Immortal Forlorn.

A fun bestiary that expands on introducing spheres to NPCs to make both subsystems mesh together However, I feel this particular dropped the ball on including cookie-cutter meta PC options at every turn, rather than leveraging the unique strengths of evil outsiders of different varieties.

Most notable of all is the very first entry, a creature that can on a low-estimate swing for 12d6+324 twice a turn. I am not exagerating or expecting a critical hit. It simply attacks that hard due to exploiting infamous synergies from some of Paizo's most ill-regarded content.

On the other hand, the elemental chaos orb is an intrigueing and exciting enemy to face.