20 Things #2: Looting the Body (system-neutral)
20 Things #2: Looting the Body (system-neutral)
This installment of Raging Swan Press’ system-neutral #20-series clocks in at 12 pages, 1 page front cover, 2 pages of advertisement, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 6 pages of content, so let’s take a look!
Looting the bodies of creatures is its own series in Raging Swan press’ product roster, but this does not mean that we can’t use more of these, right? Right! So, we begin with the remnants of 20 adventurers to loot, which sport healing potions, wooden scroll cases full of dungeon maps, trapmaker’s kits – quite a few different entries that provide a sufficient diversity.
Beyond these, the pdf also sports an entry of 20 things you can find on the corpses of bards -as well as 8 outlandish costumes. Copies of The Tragedy of T’kar, weird, hexagonal gold coins, ornamental rapiers – the diversity and potential are right back to the level we have come to expect!
20 things found on dead clerics, 10 unholy symbols and 6 decisive unholy water flasks complement the page: Incense burners, secret compartments in symbols and jet black flasks with slightly mobile patches once again rock, though some of these entries will be familiar to Raging Swan Press veterans – in particularly those that own “I loot the Cleric’s Body.”
The rogue’s respective loot-entries, with hidden-compartments in heels of boots, hollow-hilted daggers and pouches with secret items sown in, the items are cool – but, alas, the table is completely taken from the GM’s Miscellany: 20 Things Volume I -book, so if you have this book already, this will only be a retread for you.
The next page contains 20 things to be found on the body of a warrior, containing notes that can be part of a crude treasure map, weird, cinnamon-smelling powder or dried meat. This table is great and, unless my memory deceives me, I am pretty positive that I have not seen these before.
The same cannot be said about the wizard-table that’s next – it once again has been taken from the excellent GM’s Miscellany: 20 Things Volume I compilation.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I noticed no significant glitches. Layout adheres to Raging Swan Press’ elegant two-column b/w-standard and the pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience. Additionally, the pdf comes in two versions, one optimized for the printer and one for screen-use – kudos for going the extra mile there!
Creighton Broadhurst, Ronald Calbick, Seamus Conneely, Taylor Hubler and Anthony Jennings deliver a nice installment of dressing here: I very much enjoyed pretty much all of the tables featured within…however, at the same time, I was slightly disappointed to notice the partial overlap with the big GM’s Miscellany: 20 Things Volume I-book: The completionist will want this pdf still and if you don’t need the big book, you’re good – but in the end, I couldn’t help but feel that all-new material would have been a better way to reward the customers. The new material definitely is nice, but in the end, I can’t go higher than 4 stars on this one.
You can get this nice dressing file here on OBS!
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Endzeitgeist out.
