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Thursday, September 09, 2004

d20 Mini-Reviews

Complete Monster Cards from The Other Game Company
A PDF containing almost all* the monsters from the revised d20 SRD (3.5E). The PDF pages are meant to be printed out double-sided and cut into trading card-sized pieces. Contains standard monsters, all the pyro/cryo/headed hydra combinations, fleshed-out dragons of each color and size, monsters from the summon... spells, etc. Overall great idea and very useful. Major flaw: The text is very small; for creatures with lots of abilities (solars, for example), the text is smaller than what is standard elsewhere on the cards, making it difficult to read. I would have preferred if they'd gone for cards that came out to 3x5 in size. Still, I recommend this for DMs.

Available from RPGNow.

*: I say "almost" since I didn't find the greater stone golem.


Dungeon Crawl Classics #9: Dungeon Geomorphs from Goodman Games
Not a module, but 30 pages of geomorphs: quarter-page map segments you can join together randomly to create dungeon maps. Unfortunately, I bought this without browsing through it - a mistake on my part. There are segments for caves, castles, castle ruins, hallways/corridors, lairs, "Underdeep", mazes, dungeons, "old-style" dungeons, and temples. Some of the cave and "Underdeep" segments may be useful, but I found many to be just plain weird or uninspired. I should have left this on the shelf, but it is a book of geomorphs, so I should have expected what I got. Anyway, not recommended.

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