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Every so often I do reviews of products for Critical-Hits, but there’s a lot of products I get for review that really aren’t worth a whole article. DriveThruRPG is just chock full of little $1 products – maps, stock art, tokens, and, oddly enough, lists of 100 things. I’ve always been interested in 100 Thing Lists, but often the content just wasn’t very imaginative nor really entertaining. When I buy a list of 100 things I do it to get some ideas I wouldn’t just come up with myself by staring at the monitor a few seconds.

There’s very few of these that I’d actually use for anything, and for the longest time I just ignored the “lists of things products.” Lately though, I’ve been finding some gems, and all of them come from a single publisher, Lee’s Lists. Lee’s Lists is a recent appearance in DriveThruRPG, but its List products are for the most part the best I’ve seen around lately, and it’s always a joy to get a notification on my inbox that something new has dropped (and they drop every day).

Full disclosure, I’ve written stuff for these guys, so if you want to check it out:

•50 Character Trade Secrets

•1000 Style Quirks

•1000 Fearsome Monsters

•100 Eerie Landmarks

But there’s an overwhelming majority of stuff I haven’t written but that I’ve acquired and reviewed on DriveThruRPG and would definitely use in my games, because it’s completely awesome.

Lee’s Lists has some incredible people behind some of this stuff, it’s pretty amazing. They fulfill my personal requirements for list products: funny, imaginative and full of content, where the items aren’t always cliche stuff I would get from cultural osmosis in fantasy games. You’ve got gonzo old school stuff like 100 Polearms. You have 1000 Norse Weapons which was my first exposure to Lee’s Lists, and then 100 Adventuring Motivations which is inspiring and hilarious. You have things like 100 Fantasy Plants and Fungi, which are legitimately useful and interesting around a table. A lot of it is witty, funny, charming, but ultimately also functional if you’re in a bind, or if you’re playing a sandbox game and don’t want to plan anything.

Check out their catalog, everything is either a dollar or fifty cents. You really can’t go wrong with dropping some change on this. You could buy a newspaper or you could buy 100 Strange Old Proverbs. Choice is clear, for me. I encourage you to check it out and keep checking them out in the future, if you’ve got a need to roll a d100 for things.