In this Flip Through Matt takes a look Heroes of Humanity
This is probably the best source book in the Coalition Wars.
In this review Matt looks at the Book of the Damned for the Pathfinder role-playing game. The book does contain information on demons, devils, daemons and the worship so the content might not be for everyone.
Knowing that, The Book of the Damned contains a lot of information about the biggest and baddest fiendish divinities. Reaching into the deepest and darkest crevasses of the Abyss you learn about their worship, and the realms they live in. For player characters there is information the players can use to worship the fiends. Giving you tools like obedience, and sample structures for cults.
I think the best part of the book is the section on contracts. As a G.M. I found this to be exhilarating! It is a great tool for trapping players who want to be tempted, or who can be duped into bartering with the devil. What makes the section so good is that they give you all of the parts of a contract and stress the importance of each one, more importantly it even gives you way to break the contract. It’s just too much fun!
If you want to add demons and devils to your campaign check this out.
In this Flip Through Matt takes a look at the Faiths of Golarion campaign setting for Pathfinder. This book includes ten lesser gods of Golaria. It offers up a a complete write up that includes their domain, sub domains, favored weapons, and an obedience. While these deities are not the major players in the pantheon of Golaria don’t think that they aren’t influential to their believers!
Characters of any class can perform the obedience of their deity to be granted an ability that lasts for the day – if they have the Divine obedience feat. Further characters with the feat will be granted more power if they have at least 12 hd – sooner if they are of the right prestige class. Faiths of Golarion brings us 5 new domains and 4 sub domains plus new feats and spells.
What I love about the Pathfinder faith books is that they take the idea of faith and break it down so any player character can believe as much or as little as the character would like.
This is a nice supplement for the Pathfinder system, helping players and G.M.s round out their stories.
In the Flip Through Matt Reviews Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. This is a compilation of content from Unearthed Arcana for Dungeons and Dragons 5e. DnD5e
There are plenty of little goodies spread throughout the entire book for players and D.M.s
In this Flip Through Matt Takes a look at the Martial Arts Handbook for Pathfinder.
I’m always happy when the martial arts gets more love.
Curse of the Crimson Throne
Published by Paizo
Curse of the Crimson Throne made its debut back in March of 2008 starting with Edge of Anarchy and ended with Crown of Fangs in August of the same year. This adventure path is among the earliest of Paizo’s publications. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly, It was in March of 2008 that Paizo announced the Pathfinder RPG. The revised edition of Curse of the Crimson Throne was published back in December of 2016. It has been updated with a few changes to expand story and reflect the rules supplements and changes made over the years .
First, this review is well as free of spoilers, I hope. I really hate spoiling adventures and in many places it will seem like I give you hardly any information.
Curse of the Crimson Throne is set in Korvosa where the royalty never lives to old age and never manage to spawn an heir. . The King recently expired and the queen is about to take the throne. This really sets the stage for what is really a big sweeping narrative that starts by putting the players against a crime lord. They eventually experience plagued cities and have to deal with the corruption of the queen.
In this Flip Through Matt takes a serious look at the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
I’m so happy to see the world of Magic the Gathering infiltrate Dungeons and Dragons!
In this Flip Through Matt takes a look at the Rifts World book Sovietski. this book contains everything from prerift history to the present day. There are a lot of new character classes for Rifts in this game, plus bunkers, and a slew of cybernetics. C’mon in!
I really like the approach that was taken with Sovietski.
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In this Flip Through Matt Takes a look at Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana a Visual History. This is a pretty in depth overview of this book by Sam Witmer, Kyle Newman, Jon Petersen, and Michael Witmer. Art & Arcane is a complete history of D&D including everything from Chainmail to 5e. If you have been playing for awhile you will have several I remember that moments.
This book is so valuable – it makes me fell like a teen age boy again and I believe it always will!
In this Flip Through Matt takes a look at the Pathfinder Playtest core book. He makes note of many of the changes and new design. Much of the book is about Character Creation.
This is my first thoughts on the Pathfinder Playtest book. I hope to be able to go more in depth next week (August 30 2018).
