Simply one of the best campaign setting books published by Paizo. Seven dungeons, each with a brief historical overview, descriptions, maps, treasures, rewards, and adventure hooks. I liked this book so much Paizo needs to do a sequel book.
The mailman delivered both copies of Pathfinder Campaign Sourcebook today and threw his spine out in the the process. Yes, the book are about an inch-and-a-half thick and crammed heavy with RPG goodness. If you have a coipy of the latest champions RPG, you'll know what I mean. The other copy is for my older brother. He's so delighted I think the book alone has mystical qualities and he's regenerated a new kidney.
First glance, this is what fourth edition D&D should have been. The colors, the presentation, the paper cuts. It's worth it. God, 50,000 copies in pre-orders and it was sold out before its first release. No new printings until October.
Anyways, I'm off to read my newest book and I'll think highly of you as the week rolls on. :)
I know I can enjoy this product and its eariler companion in hours after hours of brainstorming and dungeon assembling.
Here's a little sniplet of what I did recently.
Legends and recently unearth journals state that the location of the Blackrock Tomb, once lost after the Battle of the Twelve, is located behind a waterfall in the Downshipp Mountains. An unholy vault, dedicated to hostile foreign planar entities and their foul mother-goddesses, whose interior has never been mapped now beckons to the foolhardy, greedy and curious alike. Likewise, all attempts to map the interior are somehow foiled. Earlier recordings stated that some passages twist and turn on their own through tainted sorcery. The tomb is also believed to be the final resting place of the Paladins of the Righteous Scar, a fallen knighthood now lost as they sought to extinguish the evil with the vaults of the tomb itself.
Twin nude Mariliths form the archway and entrance, their many arms grasping their counterparts from some fifteen feet above the entrance’s floor. The tomb consists of several single corridors, all housing mirrors, duplicated down to the smallest detail and engraved with elaborate tactile knots carved into the woodwork into the stone by magic. Ghostly faces appear with in the mirrors, or sometimes colors but no shapes. Phantasmal sounds chime horrifically with armor and weapons scrapping across the stone floors of the tomb. Soon voices howl, then all is silent.
Few science fiction RPGs impress me, but Reign oF Discordia is a superb campign setting within 136 pages and an excellent expansion for the True20 game rules. Don't pass this book up whatever you do. I'm going to dust the old True20 books of my shelf and give them another look.
I just finished reading Dungeon 149 and the adventure "Enemies of my Enemy."
Wow! A new and deeper insight into Abyssal politics. I'm afraid the abyssal chains of backstabbing and deception were so demonic any sense of comprehension into their structure would make my head would explode.
Then again someone said you couldn't find nicer guys in Hell. :-D
A must have issue for DM's and players who are hooked on demonic lore.
