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In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil (2e)
by Conor P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/01/2024 13:08:26

I purchased the print on demand softcover version. Others have mentioned that the Planescape books have poor printing, with dark images and occasional fuzzy text. I have had no such issues. Text is clear throughout and the images are printed with great quality. There do seem to be some extra pages included in the back of the book, one is a Dragonlance map and another is a page of different unrelated to Planescape maps. These may have been included by accident but they do not disrupt the book. The scans seem high quality and I am very happy with my purchase and intend to purchase other Planescape POD materials.



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The Shattered Circle (2e)
by A customer [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/30/2023 12:07:30

This was the first or second module I ever ran, back in the 99-00 school year.

There is ALOT of adventure packed in here. If you played 3e/5e and enjoyed the Sunless Citadel, this is another meaty dungeon crawl with factions by the same author.



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PHBR12 The Complete Paladin's Handbook (2e)
by Daniel [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/28/2023 18:42:31

So, while this is kind of an amusing piece of gaming history, be warned that it has not aged very well. There's some fairly problematic text in here, for example;

"A paladin himself may choose his own beloved and declare his love. This declaration is equivalent to an ethos vow; the paladin must remain true to his beloved from that moment onward. Alternately, the DM may force the issue by observing the paladin's behavior. If the paladin seems unusually attracted to a particular NPC—asking about her, staring longingly at her, fawning over her—the DM should point out that the paladin is exhibiting early signs of courtly love. If the paladin persists, the DM may declare that the NPC has become the paladin's beloved. If he likes, the DM may require the paladin to make a Charisma check. If the check fails, courtly love exists."

This effectively amounts to the GM enforcing highly dysfunctional relationships through game mechanics. Clearly this kind of stuff is modeled on the Lancelot/Guenevere love triangle that shows up in Le Morte d'Arthur, but to have actual game mechanics around it and suggest that the GM force the issue...well, it's not great.

Thankfully D&D has come a long way in distancing itself from this kind of thing, but a modern reader may be a bit surprised at some of the stuff that's in here.



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Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (3e)
by Clifton [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/25/2023 17:24:38

I was able to run this module in 2023 and I have the following things to say about it:

It's an AMAZING sourcebook for monsters, NPCs, encounters, towns and dungeons. If you buy this book you'll never need to roll up a random NPC ever again. You'll have a full book of ready-to-go encounters complete with spells, stat blocks and equipment. It's absolutely amazing.

The intro dungeon is great, but everything after that needs a lot of conversion in order to work. The Crater Ridge are absolutely MASSIVE and I had to throw half of it out completely. If you try to run this adventure as-written, be prepared for a slog. I recommend picking the parts that look cool and throwing the rest out.

The new monsters, magic items, classes and domains are great. This book is packed with great stuff.

In conclusion, it's an almost mandatory sourcebook for 3rdedition. It's essentially a Monster Manual, Magic Item Compendium and NPC Codex all in one.



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Chains of Asmodeus
by Karthik N. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/23/2023 09:59:24

Was very excited for this but was extremely disappointed for the following reasons:

  • poor art quality
  • poor world building
  • no choice of outcomes, very linear and railroaded
  • NPCs not fleshed out enough
  • magic items are boring
  • no encounters with the arch devils

If you want info on the nine hells, I would recommend Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes instead



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DDAL05-02 The Black Road (5e)
by Benjamin H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/17/2023 20:51:53

This adventure is highly recommended for a reason. I've run it twice now and it's great fun with exciting set pieces and really nice guidance regarding how to resolve situations using skills.

If you're interested in using areas of Faerun beyond the Sword Coast, it's also a great springboard for adventuring further east. I happen to have made the Anauroch Desert an important location in my home game, and it was nice to play an adventure set specifically in this under-utilised location.



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FR16 The Shining South (2e)
by Pamela [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/17/2023 08:06:03

Heads up, the background makes the printed copy very difficult to read.



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Priest's Spell Compendium Vol 3 (2e)
by Graziano [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/15/2023 13:04:23

The volume is largely incomplete, as about 40 pages are missing. This is an amateur 'pirate' scan that has been circulating on the net for years and which WoTC has made its own, without improving OCR quality or implementing the missing pages. They are aware that these pages are missing but have been saying for years that the file will be updated as soon as the original material is available. Apparently, the only thing missing is the will to give those who want to buy this product, the COMPLETE manual. Shameful behaviour to say the least.



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Monster Manual (1e)
by RICHARD [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/14/2023 22:19:54

Been 10 days - hasn’t even been printed yet - not super happy



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Dungeon Master's Guide (1e)
by RICHARD [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/14/2023 22:18:22

Wish I could rate it - ordered 10 days ago and it’s apparently waiting to be printed and has been for quite some time- not sure what the turnaround time is but I see other reviews that say “received item quickly “ - this is not one of them.



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Hellbound - The Blood War (2e)
by Ethan [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/12/2023 11:23:12

The only real problem with this set (like quite a few scans of old TSR products) is that they are incomplete. For instance, if you try to print out the player's map for a scenario from Visions of War, you will find a rather large strip in the middle where the two sides do not meet. In other words, the two pages that are meant to be joined together are MISSING the image near the original spine of the book. Other than that, it's a great read even if you just want background for your campaign and intend to keep your players from getting embroiled in the Blood War.



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D&D Expert Set Rulebook (B/X ed.) (Basic)
by Scott S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/11/2023 13:57:35

POD version is out now and it is excellent. Hopefully they will do the basic in POD soon.



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M1 Into the Maelstrom (Basic)
by Ethan [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/09/2023 16:21:20

The contents page makes reference to DM Map 6 & 7. Are they missing from the reprint or was it just more editorial laziness on the part of TSR in the mid-80s?



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Chains of Asmodeus
by Talia S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/07/2023 15:10:30

This is definitely a valuable product. With nearly 300 pages of fiendish evil throughout its pages it serves as the most thorough exploration of the full nine Hells in Fifth edition. The adventure hooks are well-crafted and implemented in a way to drive the characters in the right direction, but give them lots of freedom along the way. As someone who was looking for an adventure like this, I absolutely love how well put together the whole thing is, and look forward to running my own version of it with some players in the future.

I felt the need to take it down to four stars for a few reasons I'll elaborate on, shortly, but I will say I highly reccommend this product to anyone who wants to run a deep dive into the Nine Hells.

Downsides/Weaknesses:

The art style of the archdevils. I'm just not really a fan of most of them. They look like rendered 3d models, and their textures seem off. They also look very little like previous official art for the characters, and do not feel as enticing as many are described as being. They also look a bit more like Sci-Fi aliens than fiends to me. It may be something that you like or doesn't bother you, so YMMV on the topic, and I'm just a sucker for different art styles than this one. The art for the monsters in Appendix B is much closer to what I would expect and would have preferred for the rest of the content. The difference in style of artists is just a significant mark for me.

Statblocks. Are mostly very good. I'll agree with another reviewer that some abilities, like all language proficiency should be more broadly applied to the archdevils, but overall they are well-crafted and should lead to really interesting encounters. I do think that all of them will see some level of adjustment in my own play, but this is commonly necessary for any high level campaign to do a little tweaking here and there. It's a little unfortunate that the campaign also requires multiple additional resources to provide the statblocks for all of the included encounters, so that's something that bugs me just a bit too, but it's entirely understandable. It is one of the benefits of being an officially licensed product that it's not restricted to using the SRD or unique content, but it does make this book a little more complicated to use. (Updated document fixed one of the mistakes in a statblock for the Hellcats mentioned in an earlier review.)

Partially Improved by recent update. Maps and artwork: Overall the scene-setting pieces and the cartography are interesting and useful. I would really like to see all of the planar maps, and really almost all of the images extracted for better VTT integration. The player handouts and other large spreads especially would be far easier to use at the table (virtually or in person) as images in addition to their place within the text. The whole adventure could also use some additional basic battlemaps for areas within the planes that are likely to arise. There are several thoroughly described areas (and several less thoroughly detailed ones) that involve potential combat encounters, and very few of them have anything close to resembling an appropriate battle map for them. This is something I would have truly liked to see, even if many of the encounters are flexible as to where they might occur. It would have been great to see possible lair/palace maps for the archfiends as well, but that's not entirely within the scope of the adventure. But even many adventure locations could have really benefitted from having a map to put them in. Those maps that do exist are decent, and it would have been nice to see more. Note: A recent update added a handful of images for battle maps as a seperate download. I would love to see this pack improved on with an inclusion of more of the artwork as individual files as well. It is a real boon to VTT play in particular, but also just generally. (Side note, if a FoundryVTT or Roll20 module for this ever gets created, I would absolutely snap it up, especially if it could be discounted for PDF owners and/or it contains additional maps and implemented artwork.)

Edit: They recently released additional battlemaps which really help fill things out a bit more on that side of things. I will still stand by my initial four-star rating for now, but if we get another update of similar scope and a touchup, then I can unreservedly bump that up to 5 stars.

Overall, these things were enough for me to knock it down from a 5 star product, but I absolutely love what they've created here and hope to see more items like this in the future.



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Monstrous Manual (2e)
by jacob k. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/29/2023 04:37:23

I have the original 3 ring binder with only the first stack of monsters that it came with. I never got around to getting the other packs to fill the binder. I'm happy to see all of them in this clear, easy to read, excellent bound reprint from drivethroughrpg. Another book I'd love to have a copy in hard cover.



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