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You DON'T want to KNOW
Publisher: Library of Ancient Scroll
by David J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/26/2011 02:15:43

I'm not an experienced reviewer, so if I don't "do it right" sorry ahead of time.

This is a 7 page PDF intended (I believe) primarily for DMs. It provides background details--some amusing, some unusual--for NPCs (or PCs, really--there's no reason a player couldn't use these write-ups). The background details are typically "dirty little secrets" or skeletons in closets that the character in question doesn't want anyone to know about. They attempt to add spice and nuance to what might be a vanilla or less-than-memorable character. Many of them are cliché (some worse than others), but that's not always a bad thing when dealing with fantasy tropes.

These dirty secrets run little more than a paragraph or two, and there's 5 per page.

The author clearly does not have English as his first language, so there are a few spelling gaffes and odd sentence structures. These do NOT hinder understanding; they aren't so cryptic that you can't easily figure out what the author is trying to get across. It might have been nice to have an (English-speaking) editor make a quick pass through the document, however. (I'm not a professional editor, but I have a solid command of the English language if the author ever wants to contact me to do some free, quick editing work.) :)

The thing is, for 79 cents you pretty much can't go wrong. Even if I use even one or two of the dirty secrets in my game, I feel I'll have gotten my money's worth from the product.

Is it outstanding? No. Is it average but at a dirt-cheap price? Hell yeah.



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