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This is the coolest clan book ever. If you want to really see how to play, not just scorpion, but anyone who may have to lead honor driven people around in any setting....this is the book.
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This is needed for for any pre clan war setting . Its also a good read.
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I want everyone to know that L5R is the single most challenging RPG out there. It has a quick kill dice system. It has a dueling system that feels more like a high stakes poker game than a simple hack/slash system. It has a system for large scale battles that keeps a GM from saying there are 500 goblins, roll initative. It has a developed culture that makes you choose your words at every turn, including to other players. If you are serious about roleplaying over roll playing, download this game and all its source books. If you are an white wolf fan but thinks its getting a little arcade like, if you play d&d but find yourself just writing the toughest pc possible, if you want to just pick up a game that is a good read, L5R happens to be one of the few games that gets things right.
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The premise and general structure of this adventure is nice and fun. But now that I've run most of it for my gaming group, I see that there are several fairly serious plot flaws that weren't caught.
For example, there's pretty much only one way to really fully complete the main quest and that is - according to the module - to use Speak with Animals to talk to a key creature the adventuring party encounters. But the creature the PCs have to talk to isn't an animal, so the spell wouldn't actually work.
There are several cases like this, where the module contradicts what's written in the basic D&D books. But for the most part, you can improvise your way around these problems, and the story itself is good and fun. My players were surprised by one particular plot twist, which is always a good sign. And the price can't be beat!
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Having enjoyed the TV series, I was excited when I noticed this product on the shelves of DriveThruRPG and was quick to purchase. I'm not disappointed by the content. The d20 implementation is well done, with the Wounds/Vitality game mechanic used for combat. There is also a wealth of background material for the SG-1 setting. The review of the game residing at RPGnet is excellent and covers the game content well: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10809.phtml
Specifically to this PDF version, I'm afraid it's not to the quality I've come to expect from DriveThruRPG. The PDF is a scanned image rather than a publication created from the original typesetting material. The image format results in a large file size, a whopping 88Mb. There are clearly visible track marks from the scanner down the pages. These are especially noticeable on pages including images where the darker background highlights the lines. The image quality is also not as crisp as a PDF published from the original material, some of the text being slightly out of focus and fuzzy. Again, this is more noticeable where there is a background to the text. Several pages are not quite square to the page sides, where the page has slipped as it has gone through the scanner. This is especially evident on pages 436 and 448 of the PDF.
All in all, an excellent d20 product let down by quality issues in the PDF version.
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overall the product is very close to the original.
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I would highly approve of this product I think it was very well done.
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A good little adventure that can be adapted easily to almost any setting and dropped into an existing campaign or used as a sidequest - I was able to drop it into a Forgotten Realms campaign after about 15 minutes work. A few minor problems with incomplete stat blocks and the odd spelling error, but nothing that can't be tweaked easily.
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Thanks Kelly for the review, it convinced me to buy. This was quick,and easy to run. It was also easily adaptable. Players enjoyed it and were able to finish it easily in one session. Of course that can vary. For the money this is more than worth it
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I am very disappointed with the quality of this PDF of the book. It looks as if it was a scan of a bad photocopy of the book! There are numerous fades in the text throughout the book. I cannot believe that Alderac would have sent something like this out to be sold. Which is a shame because I was getting this to replace a copy of the same book I had in paper format a few years ago but lost in a natural disaster. I hope in the future Drive Thru will do a better copy of checking the product before taking in a PDF for sale.
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For someone looking to build convincing detail in their urban setting, GUILDS is a marvelous tool. Historical background, fundamental guild types, new NPC classes to enhance specialization, as well as the one-three page descriptions of various guilds stimulate the imagination. Would not recommend for PC consumption, unless playing a high-level urban campaign. As with any good support document GUILDS provides a few new magic items, a few new prestige classes and a couple of unexpected monsters.
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by Brent M. [Verified Purchaser]
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I believe this book got three stars from somebody who ought to be locked up (and perhaps have torture inflicted upon them). I'm not here to give you all the reasons to buy this book. If you play 7thSea, you know it's essential.
I wanted to post a review here in case you don't know what makes 7thSea my favorite game of all time.
1) Drama Dice. You get dice in order to try things out of your character's ordinary reach. In short: be dramatic.
2) Cinematic style of play: Nothing is better than watching your friends swing from chandeliers or jump and fight between two out of control carriages. You can just about imagine every Swashbuckling movie in terms of 7th Sea's style of play.
3) Character Backgrounds and Arcana: These unresolved stories and Personality quirks give the GM all kinds of fun ways in order to get characters to fall in love with each other, avenge their relatives' deaths, foil their rivals every step of the way, and/or do the unthinkable in order to free themselves from horrific debts.
4) Brute Squads. This ought to be self explanatory...but how many times have you watched the heroes bowl their way through dozens of expendable extras before getting to the real deal?
5) Familiar Setting. The setting for the game is a brilliant twist on 1600's Europe, with all sorts of curious dramas from all eras of Europe's history. There are scheming Cardinals, Zorro figures, Emperors with power trips, Queens with privateer armadas, and Ivan the Terrible.
6) There are pirates. That's just awesome in and of itself.
7) There's some magic too, for those of you bent on wielding lightning, or teleporting, or bringing yourself back from the dead.
8) The system is simple enough to learn in a few hours, yet there is enough depth to character generation (and the host of other optional systems) to make it playable for multiple years.
I've had some of the best creative fun of my life playing this game. You might also.
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Having a module that can be dropped into an existing campaign without much work is always helpful to a busy DM. I have only read it through at this point, but I will definitely use it in future campaigns
LIKED: Short, but with a good story that can be expanded on or used as is.
DISLIKED: Nothing
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Great adventure. I used this as the basis for an Eberron adventure scenario for first-time players in that setting and it worked quite well. Mystery, intrigue, and the supernatural - it's all there.
LIKED: Good plot. Gave me the basics I needed.
DISLIKED: Written in a very linear fashion without any thought into other possible alternatives for players to choose along the way.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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A nice little design for a caravan city to stick in your existing city to add some mystery and intrigue.
LIKED: A great add on feature for a city. Cheap
DISLIKED: There is an annoying fade out line that runs through the whole product. It doesn't actually hide any information, it's just distracting. So I guess that would be a poor "photocopy." Again, the pages are not quite in order due to it being a pamphlet, but I guess if you print it out and fold it properly it would be good. Will need to update to 3.5
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Satisfied
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