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I've been considering buying several of the Age of Worms PDF's, but I'd like to know what the quality is like on them. Are they OCR/OEF or just scans of the original magazines? Are the page sizes consistently scanned or are some different? (I've bought a few TSR PDFs and sometimes pages are crooked, or the cover is shown at 20% size with the rest being viewed at 100%) Are the pull-out maps split into 4 seperate pages or scanned as one single page?

Thanks!

I've been using it a bit and have to say I'm liking it so far. It's not completely done, the psionics release is coming in a week or two, followed by epic rules (I believe). Rumor has it there may be a GM component with monsters and campaign/adventure tools, but the developers are keeping it pretty tight-lipped (neither confirming or denying it's development).

My experience is that it is one of the better character generators out there. As a plus the developers seem to listen to their users via their website and add features as requested by users (based on how relevant they are... they might not program in your particular house rules, but stuff from WotC books is usually added to the program if people request it).

It's also got the easiest method to input custom, non-OGL data that I've seen, with no knowledge of scripting or coding required. There are several video tutorials available on their website that show character generation and custom spell entry that you can check it out.

Overall, once it's totally complete, it will probably be the best D&D character program out there.

A stat-block error I discovered while prepping for Chapter 3. Event 6 (page 97) says that Annah Taskerhill "...supporting them <the Stormblades> with her crossbow or whip as she gets the chance". Her statblock (pg. 388) shows that she doesn't own a whip.

I'm playing this with a smaller group (3 players, 1 PC each but they are allowed to gestalt). Fario and Fellian had "joined" the party before they encountered Kazmojen and it would have been a total TPK if I hadn't fudged in the PC's favor.

Looking back at the encounter, I think the biggest problem was Kazmojen's AC (plus I didn't really want to give the PCs access to full plate armor so "early"). High AC and fast healing/regeneration (don't have book handy so I can't remember what it is) are a lethal combination for low level characters. I would downgrade his armor to nothing heavier than a breastplate (and would probably go lighter yet). I also didn't run the encounter with Prickles, but I suspect that it would be absolultely deadly with a howler in the mix. (I've DM'd Return to Temple of Elemental Evil for another group and they widely regarded the howler at the west gate as one of the worst monsters in the CRM.)

Best bet is lower his ac to allow your group to hit at least 40% of the time.