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This dungeon was basically a random dungeon from this
http://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/
generator. It is filled with undead (one monster that was not undead) in not exactly inspiring ways (basically just SRD undead). No treasure to be seen. No logic between rooms.
Would not buy again.
On the plus side, it has a DM'smap with secret stuff, and a player map without. Thats something at least. Im going to restock parts of it by hand, and then have an undead-heavy dungeon. Still, buy something else!
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I wasn't sure what to expect, but I know it was more than this. You get 10 Star names and their solar systems. These objects consist of a name and a type (e.g. Terrestrial, Asteroid, Rock Planet), and then some data.
The data did nothing to trigger ideas, and that's the problem for extended play. On the other hand you can put the data together in a quick, short description such as: "The orbital period of New Kenya is X; it is largely iron/silicate, has 1.25 times Earth gravity, 10 percent water and 5 percent ice, the atmosphere is dense and corrosive and has a colony and an advanced alien artifact."
That could be enough for a grand space-opera setting, but note that is all you get. Compare with West End Games d6 planets, or Hero games planets, or GURPS Space Atlas.
I think I was expecting one page with descriptions, adventures, and characters rather than a few lines of data.
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Nothing you can't get from, and appears to be generated from, here: http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/system/
Not much to add, just use that website for free. Not that the $1 was much to spend on this before finding out, but still the point stands.
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Awesome addition to my SG, DS, and FT games. My gaming group and I are planning on playing through the entire campaign this year and we are looking forward to it. The scenarios are interesting and the campaign system is fairly simple and straightforward. Love the fact that all of the games are linked and I have messaged the author on the Art of War Games facebook page and he has always answered my questions quickly and politely. Highly recommend this campaign path.
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Awesome addition to my SG, DS, and FT games. My gaming group and I are planning on playing through the entire campaign this year and we are looking forward to it. The scenarios are interesting and the campaign system is fairly simple and straightforward. Love the fact that all of the games are linked and I have messaged the author on the Art of War Games facebook page and he has always answered my questions quickly and politely. Highly recommend this campaign path.
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Awesome addition to my SG, DS, and FT games. My gaming group and I are planning on playing through the entire campaign this year and we are looking forward to it. The scenarios are interesting and the campaign system is fairly simple and straightforward. Love the fact that all of the games are linked and I have messaged the author on the Art of War Games facebook page and he has always answered my questions quickly and politely. Highly recommend this campaign path.
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The cover doesn't do this justice. The actual list is a two-column unnumbered list of random names that aren't even in alphabetical order, which helps disguise the fact that several of them are dupli or even triplicates - Alice occurs three times, and there are almost ten variations of "Emilie" or "Emilia" or similar. And do those names sound specifically scandinavian to anyone? Hardly. Of the names that do sound scandinavian, "Siiri" occurs five times! Does the author feel that having different last names (most of which are dupli, tripli or more-cates themselves) makes the first name different?
Don't buy this product. You could get a better list in a single google search, and that would be more usable for your game night.
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Edit: this list has since been updated and revised; most of the names in it now contain genuine Japanese names but some are still questionable. I don't think people should support a company that produces the kind of list mentioned in my review below and only changes it someone called them on it. My original review stands below so everyone can see how bad it originally was - who knows how shameless and awful the other lists are, since there aren't reviews to shame Art of War Games into providing bare minimum effort.
Original Review:
This list is awful. It claims to be a list of 100 Japanese Female names, but the names aren't actual Japanese names. They aren't even convincingly fake Japanese names - it doesn't use the Japanese characters at all. These are examples of some of the "Japanese Names" present in this product:
Yamuk Tanuye
Kuda Urit
Hata Miwak
Uesuk Kami
This is the pinnacle of low-effort awful. The author couldn't even be bothered to pull a list from Wikipedia or make "convincing" fake Japanese names by using the actual sounds in the Japanese alphabet. I speak Japanese and this is almost insulting in how low effort fake it is.
If you use this in a game, your friends will laugh at you. If your friends have even the slightest passing familiarity with something remotely almost connected to a thing that approaches the concept of the Japanese language they will laugh at you. You will become the subject of mockery if you use anything from this list.
Don't buy this. If the other lists from this company, or the other products from this company, are even close to as awful and insulting as 100 Japanese Female names by Art of War Games, they aren't worth even the time it would take to download. (Much less the money you spend.) This is bad enough that I will actively recommend against anything else by this company.
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This "Dollar Dungeon" was clearly made using the FREE Donjon 4e Random Dungeon Generator. Seriously. They don't even bother to remove the URL that appears at the bottom of the page! They just printed it to PDF. Don't waste your money. Just go to the Donjon website and make your own for free. It takes less time to generate the dungeon than it does to buy this product.
Totally ridiculous.
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Don't be fooled by the cover, inside is the equivalent of a blank sheet of paper with a list of names. I think some of the names might not even be Japanese. Yamuk sounds Hungarian and Uesuk might be an insult? Some exception could be made if the names didn't break verisimilitude, but my Japanese friend wouldn't stop laughing at my character named "Yamuk."
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This is an excellent line of products. I would have rated this higher except the file transfers as a Jpeg and not a pdf.
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Sorry about that buddy, I fixed it. You should get the PDF now. |
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This dungeon was randomly generated by http://donjon.bin.sh, as the bottom of the PDF says. As such, you can get a good idea what the product is like by using that site to generate a random dungeon. The theme for this one is undead, as the name might suggest. Ironically, there does not appear to be a Wraith Knight in the dungeon.
For $1, this product will certainly save you the trouble of fooling around with the parameters of the random generator and then downloading the artifacts from the web site. However, the PDF included wasn't even edited to fit the page correctly (the last entry has a line that is split between two pages, making it almost illegible.
I can't recommend this product unless you find you have trouble getting random generators to work for you. I'm giving it an extra star because at least the price is right.
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This product is absolutely horrible. First off, the product description and the information in the DriveThruRPG system is just plain wrong. The information in the system lists the product as 4E/GSL, but the cover shows the Pathfinder compatible logo. Neither of these is correct, as it is written for D&D 3.5.
The product claims 60 levels for the tower, but it is actually only 15, with 45 more exact duplicates of each level, with the only change being a decimal place in the level number (ie, level 15, level 15.1, level 15.2, and level 15.3 are all identical). There are 63 PDF files in this package, all rather small. It would have been much more convenient if the publisher had simple created one large PDF file with bookmarks.
The maps themselves are rather obviously created by an online random dungeon generator. As such, they have no semblance of actual design, and the connections between levels do not line up at all.
The writeups of each room also seem to have been randomly generated, and once again this shows as a remarkable failure. Apparently silver and red dragons share the same dungeon level peacefully. There is also not even the remotest inklings of a storyline.
The layout is another failure on the part of this product. I'd imagine that it is unchanged from the random generator, it certainly appears like no attempt was made to improve it. Sometimes the end of a page even slices a line of text in half horizontally. Exceedingly sloppy work on the layout front.
Bottom line: There are far, FAR better products available for this price than Tower of Terror. In fact, I would say there are far, FAR better FREE products out there than this one. I don't know much about Art of War Games, but I do know that I will never consider another one of their products again after taking a chance on this and Lawbrech City (which shares almost all of the same problems).
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First off thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
1. Information on Website = Fixed
2. Identical Levels = Fixed
3. Storyline? = Its unabashadly hack and slash, sorry if that is not your thing.
If you would like a refund I will happy do that for you just send me your email and I will send it through paypal.
Matt |
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Art of War Games offered me a refund on this product, but did not offer any contact information for me to reach them to actually receive this refund. |
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My contact information: deadredspartan@yahoo.com
I will be happy to give you a refund. |
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This PDF is 10 pages of macha goodness!
Nicely executed cover, although the mecha pictured isn't what I'd think of as a scout mech.
The first page gives the role a scout mech plays in combat as well as a couple feats that a scout pilot would find useful.
The scout pilot advanced class seems pretty well set up as a sniper/scout.
The scout missions section give some nice ideas for a GM.
The two pregen scout characters could easily be dropped into any mecha/future campaign as freinds or foes to PCs.
The three mechs presented are all the standard light and stealthy mechs one would expect of this book, they do a good job of detailing three unique roles light mecha play on the battlefeild.
Page layout is simple and easily read. No gramatical errors noted, kudos to the spellcheckers!
The Good: Small fluff, Big crunch. Good bang for the two bucks spent.
The Bad: The pictures don't seem to match up to the mecha descriptions very well.
The Last words: A good buy for someone wanting to add some light mecha to their future/mecha D20 game!
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There are a couple of things that to me kept this from being a good product.
After only a few pages, (2-3) I realized that the rumors, etc, don't really have much to them. If you take out the names, it's more obvious:
"Koanualn the knight believes that Raklus the cook saw that Trat the messenger is meeting with Jandual the poet."
Without the names: "The knight believes the cook saw that the messenger is meeting with the poet." It is a convuluted sentence almost as much as before. But what can you do with sentences like that? Yet they are all pretty much that way. There isn't much to the rumor, hook or gossip, it's more a good place to get names and occupations (and those seem repetitive, too: jesters, pirates). And in just 2-3 pages, two different people rumored to be behaving "smug." I wonder how many there are all told?
On an early page there were these two listings:
"Idainni the messenger heard that a pool of blood was found near the waterfall."
"A pool of blood was found by the waterfall."
Same page, second column:
"Something strange happened in the brothel."
"Something strange happened in the graveyard."
Try this doozy: "Fulaelus the peasant claims to have proof that Taemnel the herbalist claims to have proof that several people have been robbed by the main road." That is enough to make your head spin, and to make me write my first review on this site.
Hospitals were mentioned twice, along with a few waterfalls and a couple of docks, yet no other specific locations (in the few pages I have gone over. The whole thing has a feel to it that the list was computer generated. Maybe it actually was computer generated; 1200 is a lot to come up with. But it should have been noted. I have "650 Fantasy City Encournters, Seeds and Hooks" by Roleplaying Tips, and I found far more interesting material. And they didn't clutter it up with names. This item is currently $2.00 but I don't feel has even half the material as "650 Fantasy City Encounters," but that item is currently free. I would recommend checking it out first to see if there is the kind of material you are looking for.
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