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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49, the price is very reasonable.
The Foreign Marketplace soundscape includes a cacophany of shouting and chattering voices, coins jingling, animal noises (chickens, ducks, donkeys, and goats), blacksmithy sounds, shuffling feet, and much more. It's a great audio backdrop for most any marketplace scenario.
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49, the price is very reasonable.
Land of the Giants soundscape includes wind, native drums and other percussion, and some ambient background music. This track could be used for any outdoor scene that has grown tense and suspenseful (with or without the presence of giants).
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $.99, the price is very reasonable.
The Hidden features suspenseful ambient music, (thrumming bass, swelling strings, distant and echo-ey piano melodies) for those times when the party is on the verge of making a terrible discovery. It sounds like it comes straight from the soundtrack of a Hollywood thriller. Moss would definitely think this one is "ruddy mysterious."
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49 each, the price is very reasonable.
The Dungeon Crawling soundscape features ambient music, a torch cracking and whooshing as it is moved around, water dripping, rats squeaking, distant growls and other "possible monster" noises. The "torch whooshes" can get a bit repetitive and distracting in this one, but otherwise the track works very well.
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Creator Reply: |
Great review. Thanks for your insight. Working on version 2. =) |
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are
compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $.99, the price is very reasonable.
The Druid Ceremony soundscape features birds singing, deep male chanting, melodic female singing, and drums. This track is actually pleasing enough to listen to as background music even when you're not running a game!
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49 each, the price is very reasonable.
Like the first Arctic Excursion soundscape, the second includes blustery wind, cracking ice, as well as loud splashes of ice falling into water. This track seems to have some suspenseful background music to it, but it is very subtle and non-distracting. I paired this track into a playlist with the first Arctic Excursion track, and they matched seamlessly.
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49 each, the price is very reasonable.
The Arctic Excursion soundscape includes blustery wind, cracking ice, rumbling of a potential avalanche. This track seems to have some suspenseful background music to it, but it is very subtle and non-distracting. I paired this track into a playlist with Arctic Excursion 2, and they matched seamlessly.
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The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are
compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.49 each, the price is very reasonable.
The Abandoned Research Facility soundscape includes bass rumbles of humming machines, dripping water, and distant echos and groans of moving metal, perfect for that excursion into a forgotten underground lab, steampunk factory, or even a derelict spaceship.
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An excellent set that takes advantage of Acrobat's layer function the way that more of these products should. The artwork is excellent, instructions are clear, and there is very good attention to detail. The columns, for example, have score guides on the edges but not on the pieces, to add to their realism. Three base surfaces are available for each figure. The grass tile can be customized with 18 different features and with or without gridlines, allowing for a wide variety of tiles from one page (alone worth the price of this product, in my opinion). All pages have minimal notes/logos/etc. to conserve ink. My only suggestion would be to use a layer to enable removing these before printing, to conserve ink even further. Overall an excellent product, and well worth the price.
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Kenzer continues to deliver with these faithfully reproduced Bundle of Trouble digital collections. I am very happy to see these classic comics make it to digital format, and couldn't be more pleased with the way they've been produced. All of the pages crisp, clear, and easy to read. They're bookmarked and hyperlinked, which makes them easy to browse on both the computer and portable devices (I read them on my Nook Tablet with the EZPDF app.) Each of the collections feature all of the strips and columns from three issues of the comic series, plus bonus strips never seen before.
For those familiar with the KoDT comics, these are a great way to revisit them - and for those who've never seen them before, this is the perfect way to get started. This particular collection features the beginning of the Hawg Waller's story arc, one of my favorites of the series.
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A simple, bare-bones rules-lite system using a pair of d8s. The full document runs 8 pages (I'm guessing to keep with the theme), but once you take away the cover, intro, OGL, and cheesecake artwork, there are maybe 2.5 pages of content here. Other than some bonus stats for gear and weapons, there is no genre or setting material provided.
The system is nothing spectacular or revolutionary, but for a lite system, it seems to work well enough. Is it worth a buck? Probably, if you're looking for something different, and have a preference for very rules-lite systems.
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Creator Reply: |
William,
Thanks very much for taking the time to review the Crazy 8s Rules-Lite Universal Game Engine. I would love to hear your thoughts on some of the expansions, such as Magic 8s or Cyber 8s sometime!
Thanks,
Travis Legge
Aegis Studios |
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Hi William,
I've just finished putting the 2nd edition of this system together would like to know if you would be interested in reviewing the updated system.
Regards
Craig |
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I am very happy to see these classic comics make it to digital format, and couldn't be more pleased with the way they've been produced. All of the pages crisp, clear, and easy to read. They're bookmarked and hyperlinked, which makes them easy to browse on both the computer and portable devices (I read them on my Nook Tablet with the EZPDF app.) Each of the collections feature all of the strips and columns from three issues of the comic series, plus bonus strips never seen before.
For those familiar with the KoDT comics, these are a great way to revisit them - and for those who've never seen them before, this is the perfect way to get started. This collection features B.A.'s many attempts to patch his ruined HackMaster campaign when the gang discovers a valuable cache of antique furniture and books, which is one of the best story arcs the series has ever seen, in my opinion.
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I am very happy to see these classic comics make it to digital format, and couldn't be more pleased with the way they've been produced. All of the pages crisp, clear, and easy to read. They're bookmarked and hyperlinked, which makes them easy to browse on both the computer and portable devices (I read them on my Nook Tablet with the EZPDF app.) Each of the collections feature all of the strips and columns from three issues of the comic series, plus bonus strips never seen before.
For those familiar with the KoDT comics, these are a great way to revisit them - and for those who've never seen them before, this is the perfect way to get started. In this collection: Dawg: the RPG, Newt's steam tunnel hoax, the Bassmasters of Muncie, Bob sits in with the Black Hands, and much, much more.
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I am very happy to see these classic comics make it to digital format, and couldn't be more pleased with the way they've been produced. All of the pages crisp, clear, and easy to read. They're bookmarked and hyperlinked, which makes them easy to browse on both the computer and portable devices (I read them on my Nook Tablet with the EZPDF app.) Each of the collections feature all of the strips and columns from three issues of the comic series, plus bonus strips never seen before.
For those familiar with the KoDT comics, these are a great way to revisit them - and for those who've never seen them before, this is the perfect way to get started. In this collection: Dances with Pitbulls, Bob gets Gary Jackson's home number, Sara's Fantasy Book Club, Sara turns evil, GaryCon '98, and much, much more.
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I am very happy to see these classic comics make it to digital format, and couldn't be more pleased with the way they've been produced. All of the pages crisp, clear, and easy to read. They're bookmarked and hyperlinked, which makes them easy to browse on both the computer and portable devices (I read them on my Nook Tablet with the EZPDF app.) Each of the collections feature all of the strips and columns from three issues of the comic series, plus bonus strips never seen before. (Note: For unknown reasons, this particular volume is not bookmarked, unlike the rest of the series. I have alerted the folks at Kenzer & Co. in the event that this is an oversight. The hyperlinks are functioning perfectly.)
For those familiar with the KoDT comics, these are a great way to revisit them - and for those who've never seen them before, this is the perfect way to get started. In this collection: Newt's first game with the Black Hands, Holodeck Hackmaster, Nitro's Revenge, the Week of Long Shadows, and much, much more.
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