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Gaian Exalted Ascended Terrestrials is great little book that talks about Dragon-Blooded exalted that overtime "ascend" to become a type of celestial exalted known as Gaian Exalted.
The Tabletop Gaming club really enjoyed this booklet, though we would love to see more about the Gaian exaled. We feel like the Gaian, are a perfect fit to the world of exalted.
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Classic World of Darkness Mixed Games Rules 4.5e Update update the previously released Mixed Game Rules by this author. These rules are kind of a cross between 5e and 4e rules.
We are not sure we liked the removed of Appearance and Perception from the game rules. The other big change is the adding of Bestial dice, which are similiar to Hunger Dice from 5e.
The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends picking up a copy of these rules and checking them out for yourselves.
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Creator Reply: |
In playtesting, I have decided I agree with you that removing Perception was not a good idea. I have rolled back that change. I still think swapping Appearance for Composure was good though, so I kept that. Thank you for your feedback! |
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Clanbook Bilquis introduces us to the Bilquis bloodline, and offshoot of the Followers of Set. This bloodline is a mostly female bloodline that is focused on seduction and more adult matter. This book include. The book includes a new discipline called Siren which is on theme. The level four power is downright disturbing.
The Tabletop Gaming CLub liked this book, but we do feel its more suited for NPC character than players characters. If you are a storyteller and want to add some darker sexual themes to your game definetely get a copy of this book
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Exalted A Brief History of Creation is exactly what the title implies. The author gives us his rendition of the history of the worlf from creation to return of the solar exalted. We found the book the be an interesting read especially the earlier sections on the Shinma ((concepts that ae defined by what they are not)) and the Primordials ((concepts defined by what they are)).
The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends that everyone picks up a copy of this book, its well worth the read.
On a side note, we found it amusing that all the Shinma have names that start with "Nir" such as Nirguna the Heart, Nirupadhika the Wayt, Niramuthya the Age etc, with the exception of Dharma the Cup. It just kind of stood out and made us laugh.
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ClanBook Bilquis - Extra Content is a great little book includes a few new templates that were left out of the original Clanbook Bilquis. Please see our review of Clanbook Bilquis.
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Postbellum Summer of 1996 is a decent little setting for V20. The book is very basic with not a lot of formating and limited art, but the ideas in the book aren't that bad. The only issue we really had with this book is the NPCs. For example the Prince had 9 dots in numerous disciplines, which would make him 4th generation by normal rules. Most of the npcs stat'ed in this product suffer from the same problem, extremely high displinces... though none of the nps are given generations other than "Elder" ... a lot of them have displinces that would put them at 4th or 5th generation.
Still for a free product well worth picking up.
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Creator Reply: |
Thanks for your review! Ironically I boosted the disciplines of a lot of the NPC's because in testing because they were getting overwhelmed by individual Neonate player characters but clearly I overcompensated. Thank you for bringing the problem of lacking generational description in the character sheet to my attention, I'll make a note of it for the future. Your critiques are very helpful. |
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Bloodline Kiasyd updates the Kiasyd bloodline from VtM to VtR. This book does a very good job reimagining the Kiasyd for Vampire the Requiem. This book covers their history, society, havens, and role in kindred society. The book introduces us to there unique discipline "Taliesin" along with introducting new merits and flaws.
If you want to play a Kiasyd in yor Requiem game, this take on the Kiasyd is a excellent option. The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends this book. We enjoyed it very much.
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Forgotten Alliances Winter Solstice introduces us to a new Totem named Joulupukki. Joulupukki once upon a time was the totem of the were-reindeer (aka the Eyes of Gaia) before the Garou wiped the were-reindeer out. This book gives us details of what happened to the totem including how the myths of humans returned it to the world.
The tabletop gaming club found Joulupukki to be an extremely interesting totem. We introduced the totem to our campaign and the players had tons of fun interacting with the Children of Joulupukki.
We recommend this book to players and storytellers of Werewolf.
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Harmony Acres is a micro setting for Pugmire. This booklet introduces to a villiage called Harmony Acres. The book gives us a chapter on the history of the villiage, a chapter on the current status of the villiage (including promient places of interests and npc characters), and a chapter on creature aka monsters in the area. The final chapter is a serious of Plot Hooks that can be used to spark adventures.
The Tabletop Gaming club enjoyed Harmony Acres. We had fun exploring Harmony Acres and recommend this product to GM's of Pugmire.
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Better Feared Nosferatu is another quality book for VtR. The book opens up with a wonderful piece of fiction by Kelly Clark. The book then details eight Nosferatu bloodlines, four of which are updated from 1e, and four which are new. The book then goes over the under-cities build by Nosferatu and provides rules to design your own. The final chapter of the book includes six ghoul families to use in your games.
The Tabletop Gaming Club really enjoyed this book. The players in our campaign had fun playing with some of the ghoul families. We recommend this book to players of Vampire the Requiem.
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An island Imbued is a short quick start adventure for Exalted. In this adventure, players take the roles of young Dynasts who have not yet exalted and through the course of the adventure the characters exalt as either Solars, Lunars, Exigents, or Dragon-Blooded (the module does mention any other type of exalted is possible but storytellers would need to make modifications as other exalted are not yet availiable in exalted 3e.
The Tabletop Gaming Club ran this adventure as a one shot, and had a lot of fun. It should be noted that the module gives ideas but the storyteller will have to put some work in to build the scenes.
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Children of the Mighty Unique Races of Ghelspad is a collection of pre-generated characters featuring some of the more unique races of Scarred Lands. The characters presented are pretty interesting and the book is great when needing a quick pc for a game.
The book only has one flaw... and that is the font/design of the character sheets make them a little hard to read, but overall the product is solid.
The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends this product for players needing a quick pc. We used them to play through a couple of modules and we had fun doing so.
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Desert of Lost Relics is Part 4 of the Vengeance of the Shunned adventure path for Scarred Lands (5e). Its a fanstastic adventure. The moducle provides handouts to get the players invested in the adventure from the start. The module provides a lot of dramatic tension with its initial scripted encounter. The "dungeon" part of this module is provided to us in the form of a well designed fortress.
The Tabletop Gaming Club started this adventure yesterday and so far the group has had a lot of fun. We have not played the previous modules in this series but this module appears to be able to stand on its own. We recommend this module to any GM looking for a fun module to run their players through.
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Consumed is a great little adventure for low level (5e) campaigns, that is designed to fit inot any Scarred Setting. Its versitile enough to be able to be dropped into any existing campaign. The enemy introduced in this adventures are cool and disgusting at the same time.
The Tabletop Gaming Club enjoyed this little adventure and we recommend this adventure to any 5e GM to have in their arnesal.
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Clanbook Samedi gives us an indepth look at the bloodline Samedi. This book is a fascinating look at the origins of the bloodline written from the point of view of one of their own. The book covers their beginnings starting with the embrace of their founder Le Baron in Europe and continues with their influences in the carribean, north america, mexico, and the rest of the world. The books talks about the Samedi's connects to Vodoo and the Loas (powerful spirits of the dead aka wraiths). The book gives us details of the Mirrorlands also known as the Dark Kingdom of the Carribean.
The Tabletop Gaming Club loved this book and we have major plans to use it in our chronicle over the holidays. We strongly recommend that everyone who is a player of Vampire check this book out.
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