Monstrous Races 2 by Purple Duck Publishing
This product is 19 pages long. It starts with a cover, credits, toc, and forward. (2 pages)
Monstrous Races (14 pages)
Each race has a full race write up, with all the stats needed to play one as a PC race. It talks about class roles for the race. Gives new favored class options and racial traits.
Dark Folk – aka dark creepers, race seems a bit strong. Not to strong to use just strong.
Dhampir – Has no PC stat block listed, I assume since it is in the beastiary 2 that they felt no need to reprint it. I was disappointed by this, it should included everything you need.
Forlarren – offspring of devils and nymphs.
Living Ghoul – another one that felt it might have been a little strong.
Lizardfolk – This one was very well done.
Sahuagin – In a undersea campaign they might be a bit strong, but in a land campaign they might be a little weak.
Skulk – a very focused race able to hide or disguise it's self well.
Slyph – Like the Dhampir there is no stats given in the book, just the new racial and favored class abilities.
It ends with a OGL. (3 pages)
Closing thoughts. The art work is black and white and ranges from fair to pretty good. Editing and layout are pretty good. I liked the book as it adds more race options for PC's for those that want them. Most of the races only get 4-5 favored classes and about the same number of racial traits. I liked the majority of them for all the races. I did comment on who I thought two of the races where strong. When I say strong I mean I feel they are above the core races but not by much. Not enough to be unbalanced, only that they felt strong. Of course after playing with them they might not be as bad as they seem at first read as well.
I was disappointed that the stat blocks where not included for the Dhampir and Slyph, I know they are in the beastiary 2 but I still felt they should have been included. With that said I did like the book, so if you are looking for new PC races this is worth picking up. I do home they do more and possible create some. Maybe a half-nymph or half-dryad etc. I wouldn't even mind seeing for some of the stronger races, them to have base stats and then some racial levels for those that want to play such races in the future. So what's my rating? I am going to give it a 4 star, I think it is a solid book for those wanting more race options.
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