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https://i.imgur.com/y0wcD0a.png Chapter 4: Magic Items It’s only appropriate that a sourcebook themed around magic items includes new magical gear! For the sake of brevity I won’t cover them all, but will include the ones that stand out in being particularly interesting. The Aegis of Dread is a shi...

https://i.imgur.com/QVXwUoJ.png Chapter 2, Part 2 Saraab the Mirage is a djinni merchant whose shop is a two-horse carriage. He was the servant of many mortals over the past several hundred years, and when his last master freed him Saraab decided to pursue his calling of traveling the world. The dj...

https://i.imgur.com/kXu4wC7.jpg Although it is a staple across both video game and tabletop RPGs, the concept of the magic item shop wasn’t around for the first generation of Dungeons & Dragons. It wasn’t until 2nd Edition that the interaction of gold and magic items was a conversation point, a...

https://i.imgur.com/r4NPBCH.png Final Thoughts on World of Aetaltis A huge amount of fantasy RPGs can be boiled down to the phrase “generic medieval fantasy setting, but X.” Shadow of the Demon Lord is “generic medieval fantasy setting invaded by a world-destroying cosmic horror.” Midgard is “gener...

https://i.imgur.com/q3y747E.jpg The other big setting/adventure book for Aetaltis, Defenders of Dunbury Castle, centers on a local territory known as the Scir of Dunbury, Described by a Drive-Thru RPG commentator as “Keep on the Borderlands for the 21st Century,” the major adventure hooks and plots...

https://i.imgur.com/Qarb8Q6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tyWsdFM.png The Gamemaster’s Guide is actually the shortest of the three corebooks, but even then it’s still a respectable 154 pages. Split into 5 chapters, the first half of the book deals with Secrets of the setting not in the player's guide, ne...

https://i.imgur.com/Q99fFt7.png https://i.imgur.com/y34Gktn.png I know I said I’d do the World of Aetaltis Gamemaster’s book next, but figured to share my thoughts on Heroes of Thornwall as this one’s freshest in my mind. It is in fact the first product made for the World of Aetaltis, originally ex...

https://i.imgur.com/u2rs7k3.jpg The World of Aetaltis is a fantasy setting that’s been worked on since 2014, originally made for Pathfinder with a free adventure. It’s had some high points and low points when it came to crowdfunding, although the next-to-last KickStarter was successful and knocked ...

The most I remember from this book is that the Israelites had by far the most sins, and all the other cultures were overall pretty free-wheeling and chill. I do recall they had new or reworked classes. The Levite Priest was pretty much the Cleric, and IIRC the Babylonians were the only group with Wi...

Random bit of trivia, while mock naval battles are historically accurate, and there was one in the Coliseum, the way we tend to think of it includes underground tunnels and passages that were built later, and would prevent flooding it again to allow for more naval battles. Well, not prevent, but ma...

https://i.imgur.com/msx24Nk.png Appendix Making up the last third of the book, the Appendix holds all the new material that isn’t as player-friendly as new races and classes. We first have 39 New Spells. While most are learnable by PCs in this adventure, quite a few are surprisingly 6th level or hi...

https://i.imgur.com/dyq7S0M.png Caverns of Salt and Silver is the hideout of Legion, Archdemon of Envy. The presence of the Dead Sea and receding underground tides means that there are tunnels made entirely of salt stretching for miles beneath Judea. Centuries ago, Legion used enchantment magic to ...

https://i.imgur.com/OBmdTP3.png Events & Encounters, Part II This section has been split into two parts for ease of length For the second half of this chapter, roughly half of the sections detail the remaining archdemon lairs, two important settlements in Judea, two that are Jesus-centric, and ...

https://i.imgur.com/jMC6R2A.png Events & Encounters, Part I Even larger than the Atlas at nearly 100 pages, Events & Encounters is the longest chapter of the book. Made up of 19 scenarios, these provide detailed descriptions of the more involved events, dungeons, cities, and regions relevan...

Ok, so the historical period is one of great conflict and expansion of Rome's power. For example, the Mediterranean recently went from having lots of pirates to having lots of dead pirates and Romans boasting about their pirate-killing. How do monsters survive, or is this their last gasp before end...

https://i.imgur.com/cP5tZSA.png Tools & Tables Technically the Adventure Atlas is first, but as that section is really long and makes references to things in this section, I’m doing a rare out of order review. Tools & Tables focuses on filling in the blanks for the Biblical sandbox beyond t...

https://i.imgur.com/Y9NSFQd.png The Story Begins Although the meat of this campaign is an open world sandbox, the adventure starts with a more controlled funnel. The PCs have been hired by Tobit to escort his son Tobias from the Kingdom of Ninevah to the city of Teredon in the south. Tobit is unabl...

https://i.imgur.com/iBQNk6F.png Creating a Character This section includes 4 Lineages (renamed races), 9 new subclasses, 4 new backgrounds, 9 new feats, and a new ability score known as Grace. As a supplement to alignment, Grace is a reflection of a character’s moral standing and relationship with ...

https://i.imgur.com/ZqCUUkX.png Nobody can overstate the importance that the Abrahamic faiths have in the development of world history. Their influence seeps into every aspect of cultures spanning the globe, from Western nations to the Islamic world and beyond. Even role-playing games don’t escape ...

https://i.imgur.com/E1FP6Rl.png DM’s Guild Page. From the same makers as Glittergold’s Clockwork Combat, Glittergold’s Guide to Gambling (shortened to GGG for this review) is a rather creative piece of work providing seven games of skill and chance. The concept is that Garl Glittergold, god of gnom...

Does that meta book use Ass World because their DM is Gygaxian? Because that would be the most AW thing ever. The meta book borrows mechanics from various systems such as Apocalypse World, Blades in the Dark, and Fate. Basically looking at other popular RPGs (especially narrativist style ones) on t...

https://i.imgur.com/3FcAv3m.png DM’s Guild Page. From the same creators as King of the Road, Wizard Sleeve Studios has reimagined several popular franchises as minigames for 5th Edition. Amongst Thou is obviously based on Among Us, a one-shot that takes place on an airship where the PCs are adventu...

Do you know of any books that are centered around turning interparty social interaction or downtime self care minigames? Not at the moment, no. I did search for "downtime" on Drive-Thru RPG and DM's Guild, but a lot of the stuff there were very threadbare guides with but a few pages at mo...

https://i.imgur.com/aMyvEzV.png Drive-Thru RPG Page. This product is actually part of a larger collected work that I do not own. It’s also a tad on the lengthy side, so if I were to review it I’d likely make it its own thread. The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game: the Game is an Inception-level me...