The ultimate book to play VTM. Take note though that have EVERYTHING in one book can create distance between player and storyteller. Less is more.

To be honest it's a mixed bag. Pros They can be printed up as cards. Very nice. They have all of the powers of the book Cons It says it has new powers but for the most part all they did was give one group the power of another group. Very bad.

Simple, elegant yet covers a wide area of ideas and captures the litature it draws from.

A lot without it being too detailed. I love settings like this where it's up to the DM to decide what else to include.

I feel conflicted in writing this, but it has to be said. On the one hand C&C is a great game. It's well thought out and take the essesne of 1st ed D&D and makes it something next step. BUT there comes a time when a facelift is needed for all rpgs. Troll Lord has tried to do this - as cheaply as possible- and it shows. They have "colorized" the book but it's done in such a garish manner that makes it all but impossible to read in some places and in others the choice of color palaette is horrible. Also, and C&C is not the only one guilty of this (looking at you Swords and Wizardry) but the text needs a new face lift also.

No book marks? Are you kidding? It's the 21st century and the pdf technolgy has been around. While it's only 6 bucks there is no reason not to have bookmarks.

This tome collects Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy Core Rules, Genre Rules, Monsters, Cleric and Magic-User spells and Treasures books under one cover. This Tome is the apex of easy and beautiful layout AND is the difiniitive and faithful issue of the original B/X rules, even though the ability to use acending Armor Class is introduced. This addtiion is very well founded seeing as the vast majoirty of people playing today, including new players expects to see it. My ONLY gripe with this tome is that there are no higher spells. That though will be hopefully done in future serpreate book installments.

One would think that paying 16 bucks for a scanned book you would at least get bookmarks. How hard would that have been??? No really. Don't you have any desire to put out the best you can? I want to know the reason you couldn't put bookmarks in the pdf.. It's now 2024 and we have bookmarks but half of the book is gone. The newer scan, which is very nice, has NO BOOKMARKS. Shame on you.

I'm glad I bought this on sale. THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO HAVE BOOKMAKES ON THIS PDF.

It is the 21st century. There is NO excuse for having no bookmarks in the pdf. The ball has been dropped. Very sad. Just found out that the Fey Elf isn't in the book. Why not ? My favorite thing in the first book. I wish I hadn't bought it.

This is a link to the video I made reviewing this book.

https://youtu.be/k41iQ_Vyr60

My only question is, who dropped the ball? Who was responible for letting these cards to be produced ?

1. These cards are the size of playing cards you would find in the stores. Fine,only there's a lot of writing on them. It would have been nice if they were just a little bit larger so to make it easier to read. Oh but why do that?
2. The Backs say Vampire 2nd edition but the text says differantly having referance to The God Machine book and when having referances to the book do the age old (XX) for page number. Are you fucking kidding me?
3. One of the cards, The Thrall card, was damaged for some reason. I can see me having to use this one a bit. I thought about sending the whole thing back but thought "fuck it"
4. The case. I spent $2 extra for the case. It sucks. It's hard to open and it's two seperate pieces. I know it's only 2 dollars but it would have been nice to have something worth keeping. I'll never buy another condition card pack again. For the cost of them, NOT WORTH THE MONEY.

A very pale relfection of the 3rd edtition Scarred Lands books. . Way too much attention on the later books which in my opnion steered away from the unique setting. For the Furries out there this book's got them. With not one, not two, not three but for humanoid animal races. I'm not a furrie. And while I understand that these races were added later on in supplements, they again ruin the feel of the main books. Unless I'm missing it, there is no Titan's Blood or Rites like the ones that create the floating castles or that can make you vampires. Elements that I loved in the Original. The color art is all wrong for the setting,draining the gloomy feel of the original. And while it has a good table of contents, for the love of god people put an index in it. Very disapointed in this overpriced pdf.

I think the other reviews were very complete. While I really like reading it, I can see it being a hard sell to some players.

Mind over Matter: Book 1 Scion and SoulKnife, is a supplement specifically for Dreamscarred Press’s “ Psionics Unleashed”. Both books are compatible with Pathfinder. The PDF sells for around $5 and is 20 pages, 4 being non content. This pdf is stocked full of some really great ideas and includes a lot of crunch for the Psion and Soulknife. First thing I noticed was that instead of Prestige Class they used the term “Archetype” and instead of gaining individual hit dice, base attack bonuses etc like Prestige Classes, they just gain abilities at certain levels. I do own the Psionics Unleashed and the core Pathfinder books and have never ran across the term. Which leads me to other question like “if you take a Archetype do you just add on the ability at the right level?” The pdf gives no explanation, assuming you know about it already. So unless I’m forgetting something..

Beyond that though the ideas are really great. Introduced here, for the Psion are the archetypes of Locus (being able to be in more than one place at a time) and Mindreaver(able to hide in the Psyches of the victim) For the Soulknife we get a somewhat forgettable “Attenuator” a sort of monk like guy and the Magpie, a thief-like character,that can steal things right out of the hands of people including weapons. In my opinion this archetype is somewhat over powering not so much on it’s own, but when combine with everything else. Even the gaining and losing of a skill relfects this when you gain slight of hand and lose swim.

The pdf also have a few new feats and even two new afflictions, Delirium and Psychalgia. All very good.

The pdf has a Mythic Class the Medium. Playing this one requires that you have another pdf called “Mythic Adventures”. Making the total books you need to use this pdf to at least three ( A core rules book, Psionics Unleashed and Mythic Adventures).

So overall my thoughts. For the price you get a lot of really great ideas with sound mechanics. Needing at least three other books to use it all not so good. And again, unless I’m forgetting the concepts of Archetypes from another book, there needs to be more explanation on what they are.