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Chaositech
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
by Megan R. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 02/09/2018 08:58:17

With great power comes great responsibility, the saying goes. It's a bit different with chaositech. It confers great power, but carries a high price: that of losing part of your soul to the powers of chaos. There are surprisingly many who are ready to pay that price. It is neither technology nor magic, but a darker thing altogether: corruption and destruction given form. There's nothing quite like it (which is probably just as well!).

The Introduction explains all this and more. Chaositech comes in two varieties. One sort is an item that does a thing, often ornately carved to look organic, or even incorporating organic material along with metal, ceramics, glass or whatever. The other involves deep knowledge and manipulation of living organisms themselves. The consequences of using either form can include physical and mental changes in the individual, and the very forces of darkness that created chaositech in the first place can worm their way in. Most people regard it as being unstable and unreliable, as well as downright nasty... yet there are still those who would use it. The look and feel of chaositech is also... weird. Distorted. Form and function disjointed.

Chapter 1: Chaos covers all the underlying philosophy of chaos as well as dealing with those who worship it, the chaos cults and their priests. There's a bunch of new spells for those who want to bring a bit of chaos into their lives.

Then, Chapter 2: Bones of Steel explores the first variety of chaositech, the actual items that either look organic or incorporate organic material into their design. There are a vast number of items detailed ready for you to incorporate into your game. This is followed by Chapter 3: Betrayal of Flesh which looks at the other sort of chaositech where living organisms are altered or augmented. Here you learn how it is used to alter both body and mind.

Next, Chapter 4: Blessed Mutation looks at what happens when raw chaos has an effect on living creatures directly. Sometimes the results are even beneficial, sadly often they are not. The following chapter, Chapter 5: Chaos Slaves deals with those who want to use or worship chaos. Mechanically, it provides prestige classes and templates to describe this in game terms.

Finally Chapter 6: Masters of Chaos introduces the dark forces behing it all. Hopefully the party will never meet them...

Chaositech features in Monte Cook's epic setting, Ptolus: City by the Spire and if you are using that, you can enhance your game by adding this book to your collection. If you are not, you can use the information herein to add chaositech to your game world... if you dare. Use sparingly and keep it mainly for your NPCs, although you might have fun if one or two items from Chapter 2 turn up amongst the party's loot and they try to figure out what they are and how to use them. Unless your campaign - and your party - are particularly evil, it might be better not to let them have wholesale access. Chaositech ought to be something you try to stamp out, not something to be embraced. But it's your game. Use it as you please... or as you dare!



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Chaositech
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
by Roger N. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/23/2013 00:46:07

I really do love this product. I first purchased it way back when for use in my D&D 3e Eberron campaign. These days its a solid addition, with some minor tweaks, to my home brew Pathfinder campaign.

If you like to add the weird, wonderful and frankly downright twisted to your games then this is the book for you !



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Chaositech
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
by Victor D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/19/2009 12:40:48

Adding a sinister element to you campaign is made easy. Monte Cook goes over numerous cults and villians to test your characters, such as the priests of chaos, or the tolling bell cult, or the crimson coil. Too many to talk about here. This book covers fantasy tech powered by the power of chaos. Items like disk blades and emitters to name a few. It also details various items and symbiotes to add you you game. The book is clear and concise on adding these items to your game, along with the stats for each item. Mutations, chaos slaves, and the stat blocks for the Master of Chaos himself are included and detailed! It presents alot of material in a clear and easy format. This sourcebook adds a new element to your game that will keep your players guessing. Best of all, will your players be brave enough to use this against their enemies, and take the chance of becoming tainted by chaos! Great content, easy to add to any campaign, new ideas, and a few new monsters to boot.



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Chaositech
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
by Michael L. J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/11/2009 10:18:41

Treuly astonishing Book for D20. HP Lovecraft, Meets Future Tech in A fantasy Role-playing World. The Gulchat make formidable shadow enemies and the new TEch adds exotic, if dangerous, new toys for those who want to play with them.

Hellraiser comes to mind with the Creatures and I love the ideas this book brings into my mind. Will I ever use the information? Probably not, Why? I don't play anymore, but this so intrigued me I BOught the book anyway.

Recommend to everyone that wants to add a horror side to their HIgh elven magic world.



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Chaositech
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
by Benoist P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/03/2006 20:54:21

Michael Moorcock meets HP Lovecraft meets Neuromancer. Or how by mixing cyber-technomagic and foul horrors of HP Lovecraft you can make sense of the evil Chaos may represent in your campaigns. Chaositech is a great tool box for bad guys, groups and factions in your campaign, for alternate equipment next to magical items, or simply for an original take on the nature of Chaos in a D&D campaign. Recommended.



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