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Now this is a product that I had no idea I wanted, much less needed, but boy am I glad I got it. Now I will be straight up - this is not for everyone. If your games primarily focus on dungeons and monsters waiting for adventurers in the rooms; if your PCs base of operations is merely called "Town" - then you should probably pass this up. Though if you are looking for some VERY interesting fluff and window dressing - somethign that GREATLY contributes to the verisimilitude of your campaign setting; establishing it as a truely a different world - then drop the cash and pick this baby up. This is a great product for those of us that spend hours on the dork channels watching nature shows and subsequently finding ourselves wondering just what creatures fill certain eco-niches in our worlds.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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The first follow up to the Great City keeps the dream alive and delivers on the goods. The Dock Ward is just what I was wanting and works very well within the confines of what 0One is attempting to do here. As part of a greater whole I can easily see this fitting nicely with the other products yet to come - or if you already have a huge city in your game that is fairly well mapped out - the locations herein are EASILY ported over.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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OMG I think I have gone to gamer fan boy heaven. I am so excited about the follow ups to this product that I can barely take the time to focus on this one. This is what I have always wanted - a huge modular city with many detailed buildings. The names of the streets are pretty cool and not impossible to deal with - unless of course you have a wildly divergent campaign. And even so - thanks to the wonders of technology - I can always print these maps out without the labels!
LIKED: I really have no complaints about this product.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Always on the look-out for good maps this one fits yet an entire other objective for me. A nice little village, fairly well detailed, that I can start my new campaign in! And, I don't have to draw the maps of each building 'cause 0One has done all the hard work for me! Yay!
LIKED: Everything about this product is good. Buy it. Sheesh - if you are reading reviews for this product line go back and read my other ones. Everything these guys do for this product line is gold. You won't regret it.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Another in the Blueprints line, the Orc Fortress is a very pleasing product. I will not go into the fan-boy slavering like I typically do (see my other reviews) about how 0One is awesome, but let me say this: the Orc Fortress was extremely well done. One of the things I judge any map by for gaming is how aesthetically pleasing it is. In being judgemental I tend to walk a fairly razor thin line of what passes and what doesn't. For instance - I personally cannot stand to see another castle, fortress, whatever shaped like an animal (Drow temples shaped like spiders not withstanding). Orc Fortress has a nice "spikey" feeling to it and as always - it will work quite well with many other racial types within your game. Personally for me it is to come a Border fort for the Militant Hobgoblins currently testing their borders.
LIKED: All the features that I have come to love, respect, dare I say demand, of this product line are all here and accounted for. This is well worth the money - AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A PRINTER. To be truly appreciated these things need printed out. If you don't own a printer - remember, your local Kinkos can print from .pdf files with great ease.
DISLIKED: There is really nothing about this product that I don't like.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Satisfied
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I really enjoy this series. Slowly, tome by tome, I am really starting to flesh out all those bookshelves lining the walls of various members of the intelligentsia flourishing in my game world. It is really nice to be able to provide my players with some actual descriptions (not to mention plot hooks) of the dusty tomes they pull down off the shelves - and NOT have to default to soem lame generic description ("Uh...its a book of...Elven poetry...yeah...")!
LIKED: The bundled format is a splendid idea. I hope that if we see a grand bundle in the future (i.e. All the lost books volumes 1 through ??) that there is enough additional material to persuade those of us that have been buying since the beginning to pick that up as well.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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One of my favorite adventures from the last incarnation of our favorite fantasy game involved a certain city - the Jewel - as it were, and the hills nearby riddled with various cairns. These star cairns were a great place to run a modular adventure and 0One has provided me with enough additional map support to carry on this fine tradition. Like other products in this line the maps are fantastic. They are just generic enough to provide a tomb in a pinch for that last-minute "oops-I-got-caught-up-in-real-life-and-forgot-to-plan-m
y-game-guess-I-will-just-run-a-dungeon-crawl" session or detailed enough to serve as an objective for any long-running, tomb-exploring, dungeon-delving campaign of old (or new).
LIKED: As always the toggles are one of my favorite features. Being able to print out gridless and numberless maps, or with the right combination nice ink-preserving versions; is a HUGE plus. 0One keeps me coming back for more.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Not being a big fan of all things fey - I have to say that this was pretty well done. I bought it merely on a whim; I am not sorry I did. In fact, this product actually had me convinced (for a bit at least) to start examining the possibility of incorporating several facets into my home brew game. For any product to be able to hold my attention for any length of time is actually amazing. So there ya go.
LIKED: Well organized, has a few spins on things that have otherwise been relegated to stereotypical shlock in other products.
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Well I am something of a FanBoy so I seriously wonder whether or not this review would be truly useful to anyone.
This product, like all others in the series has proven to be immensely useful to me and most likely will continue to be.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Like other books in this series I am pleased. Short, concise, and to the point. It is a great bargain.
LIKED: My favorite thing is how easily this can be cross-ported to other games. I originally got it to b eused in DnD - but the entire series can be easily used alongside other intertesting tomes in the Cthulu system.
DISLIKED: I would be okay with less crunch - sometimes the extras seem a bit forced.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Satisfied
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I have no complaints about this product nor do I really have any raves. I do not regret spending the money and it pretty much delivers as promised.
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Satisfied
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This product is one I bought on a whim.
It isn't bad.
I don't know what I was expecting, but this by no means let me down. It was pretty much what the publisher promised and hey, who can complain about that?
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Satisfied
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Well this most certainly wasn't the most exciting tome I ever flipped through but it is certainly very useful.
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Satisfied
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So yeah...this is actually a pretty damn cool product.
Although I wish that it had more feats, prestige classes, and...waitaminnit...there are already ten million other products out there with those things!
Way to go guys. It is nice to see something that is a bit of a departure AND well written AND well layed out AND designed to be of easy use for the DM.
This is a very useful product and has been easy to implement into my game.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Satisfied
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Who cant use a few extra cults and conspiracies in their lives? And then of course there are backgrounds, contacts, honor, and other things as well! Oh yeah, and weather.
Actually, a lot of the rules herein have made their way into my campaign.
The weather portion is great and all, but quite frankly not somethign that I would ever use so I don't feel comfortable commenting on it. It looked just fine for the five minutes I flipped through it. When I need it to rain - it rains (in game that is).
There is alot of good information herein and it has served to motivate my creative juices significantly so I would say that overall this is a smart buy.
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Satisfied
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