EZG reviews Lords of Gossamer & Shadows Addendum: Blessings & Curses
Lords of Gossamer & Shadows Addendum: Blessings & Curses
This supplement for DICELESS LoGaS is 8 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, leaving us with 6 pages of content, so let’s take a look, shall we?
Based on Psyche, the ability to bestow blessings & curses costs 35 points – 15 points for the ability and a pool of 20 points to make said blessings & curses. Once these are used up, the rest of the required point costs are converted to bad stuff or detracted from good stuff. So…what’s the difference between stuff and these conditions? The pdf does explain that rather nice, and the process of delivering blessings & curses is also covered in detail. The more severe the curse, the more points it costs.
The same holds true for gradient influence and persistence of these effects. How hard a curse/blessing can be dismissed also determines the final point cost, as does the effect’s duration – from this, one can craft exceedingly easily new and varied effects, guided by a concise, easy to grasp system, with your imagination being the only limit.
We also get a 10-point, 21-point and 55-point sample curse, including a cost break-down.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I didn’t notice any significant glitches. Layout adheres to RiP’s beautiful two-column full-color standard and the pdf comes with gorgeous full-color artworks. The pdf comes with rather minimalistic bookmarks, which is all it needs, though.
Jason Durall delivers a simple, elegant, easy to grasp concept for making blessing and curses in LoGaS and overall, the supplement features a great system – one with one crucial flaw in my book: Why is there no cost for creating either exclusively blessings or exclusively curses? Fiction is full of characters that can enunciate dreadful curses, but couldn’t bless a wart away… So yeah, that does constitute a rather significant oversight in my book, one that, at this length, weighs quite heavily. Add to that the rather generic sample curses, and we are left with a good little expansion, but one that lacks the little spark of brilliance to catapult it to the highest echelons. My final verdict will hence clock in at 4 stars.
You can get this nice supplement here on OBS and here on d20pfsrd.com’s shop.
Endzeitgeist out.
