Review: Martial Flavor
Posted: November 27, 2009 Filed under: D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, News, Products, RPG 2 Comments »Martial Flavor is a D&D 4th Edition product by Chaotic Shiny Productions. It used to cost 22 dollars but that has a little slash mark through it now and slightly larger, bolder digits proclaim the new price is $19.95. I paid $0.00 for it, as a disclaimer for this review. I won mine in a contest. It is the only contest I’ve ever not-failed at (since I also didn’t win). That won’t make me any less objective about the review. It’ll just make me weep at my own life as I write the review.
What I should disclaim (is that the proper word?) is that I’m listed in the credits as one of the playtesters. Yes, I had some minor input into the process by which this product came to life. That also will not make me any less objective about the review. it’ll just make me smile at my own accomplishments. Now that we’ve canceled joy and sorrow with each other and thus returned me to my typical metered temperament, we can return to the review.
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Monsters Incorporated (MM2 Review Part 5)
Posted: November 25, 2009 Filed under: D&D 4e, Humor, MM2, RPG 3 Comments »Place your bets on whether or not I can finish this before the next Monster Manual comes out. You know I’m thinking of making that the theme of these articles – a year-long look at one Manual, until the next. Oh well.
Welcome to another installment of Wyatt’s unending Monster Manual 2 monster by monster reviewvaganza! (What’s funny about that is that if you know spanish you know that horrible contraction has a butchered secondary meaning about me being lazy with reviews. There I explained the joke more or less so now it will never be funny. We are at a philosophical turning point.) Read the rest of this entry »
Monsters of Eden: Antagonists
Posted: November 10, 2009 Filed under: D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Homebrew, NPCs, RPG, Spirits Of Eden 2 Comments »The Spirits of Eden campaign setting is a mostly peaceful world. The threats of goblin brigands and kobold raiders and orc marauders that exist in other universes are rare in Eden, and often handled. Dragons are scarce, aberrations rare and hidden, strictly-evil humanoids few and far between. But the world still contains evil. Hiding in the heart of every creature is the capacity for it. All they need is motivation. All they need is a desire, an ambition to sin, or even a lapse of reason, however momentary, to begin a dark march. There are creatures that don’t even need that – they are only monsters, capable only of destruction. That is the tragedy of their birth.
One warning to prospective DMs and players is that the creation of a page of Antagonists does not come with the assumptions that creatures on the other monster pages are not capable of antagonism themselves. The creatures below can be sometimes be reasoned with and friendly. They are just, more often than not, at cross purposes with the players. The creatures in other monster articles are just as capable of evil as anyone else, and DMs shouldn’t restrict themselves to this page when coming up with encounters. As well, DMs shouldn’t ignore this page when coming up with allies or patrons for the player characters. Many of the creatures here are actually unaligned.
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