paizo.com Recent Reviews by Paul Watsonpaizo.com Recent Reviews by Paul Watson2024-03-18T19:19:35Z2024-03-18T19:19:35ZTreasury of the Macabre (PFRPG) PDF: Really good but helms are not slotless (4 stars)Paul Watsonhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8mu2?Treasury-of-the-Macabre2011-09-03T12:12:13Z<p><b>Treasury of the Macabre (PFRPG) PDF</b></p><p>As has been mentioned below, there are 30 magic items with a gothic or horror inspired feel. All of the items are good, the vast majority are falvourful as hell and will fit well with the gothic adventure path this is designed to support.</p>
<p>However, as the title implies, there is one thing that lets it down from a 5 star review and that is that hardly any of the magic items seem to occupy slots. Masks, crowns, helmets, gloves, apparently all of these float aorund like ioun stones. Given the standard of design for the product, and the standard expected given the creative talent involved, this is severely disappointing on an otherwise excellent product.</p><p><b>Treasury of the Macabre (PFRPG) PDF</b></p><p>As has been mentioned below, there are 30 magic items with a gothic or horror inspired feel. All of the items are good, the vast majority are falvourful as hell and will fit well with the gothic adventure path this is designed to support.</p>
<p>However, as the title implies, there is one thing that lets it down from a 5 star review and that is that hardly any of the magic items seem to occupy slots. Masks, crowns, helmets, gloves, apparently all of these float aorund like ioun stones. Given the standard of design for the product, and the standard expected given the creative talent involved, this is severely disappointing on an otherwise excellent product.</p>Paul Watson2011-09-03T12:12:13ZThe Secrets of Divine Channeling (PFRPG) PDF: Very interesting idea (4 stars)Paul Watsonhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8gpi?The-Secrets-of-Divine-Channeling2010-09-17T10:22:26Z<p><b>The Secrets of Divine Channeling (PFRPG) PDF</b></p><p>Facts:
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The PDF is 36 pages long.
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This consists of Adverts (2 pages), cover (1 page), Title page (1 page), Introductory story and introcudtion (1 page), OGL (1 page) and 30 pages of content.
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The content consists of a new class (Divine Channeller, 3 pages) and advice on how to use these with existing chanelers such as Clerics (1 page), 8 new feats lreating to channel energy (2 pages) and the remaining 24 pages are a new mechanic combining domains and channel energy for using channel energy for new effects.</p>
<p>Opinion:
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This is an awesome idea. It makes channel energy mroe than just heal/harm and gives a lot of diversity to a central Cleric feature making them more customisable.</p>
<p>The presentation is clear, the effects do not seem over-powered (although I haven't had a chance to play with them yet) and there is a lot of variety within each domain.</p>
<p>The Divine Channeller itself is a cometent class, but I have some problems with it, mostly with the inconsistent progression of the Channel Energy. Also , for a class ostensibly devoted to Channel, it doesn't actually end up with much more powerful channels than a Cleric (although you will end up with a lot more channels). This might have been better as a Cleric variant rather than a whole new class.</p>
<p>I'd like to give it 4.5 stars as the flaws aren't that major, but sadly that's not possible.</p><p><b>The Secrets of Divine Channeling (PFRPG) PDF</b></p><p>Facts:
<br />
The PDF is 36 pages long.
<br />
This consists of Adverts (2 pages), cover (1 page), Title page (1 page), Introductory story and introcudtion (1 page), OGL (1 page) and 30 pages of content.
<br />
The content consists of a new class (Divine Channeller, 3 pages) and advice on how to use these with existing chanelers such as Clerics (1 page), 8 new feats lreating to channel energy (2 pages) and the remaining 24 pages are a new mechanic combining domains and channel energy for using channel energy for new effects.</p>
<p>Opinion:
<br />
This is an awesome idea. It makes channel energy mroe than just heal/harm and gives a lot of diversity to a central Cleric feature making them more customisable.</p>
<p>The presentation is clear, the effects do not seem over-powered (although I haven't had a chance to play with them yet) and there is a lot of variety within each domain.</p>
<p>The Divine Channeller itself is a cometent class, but I have some problems with it, mostly with the inconsistent progression of the Channel Energy. Also , for a class ostensibly devoted to Channel, it doesn't actually end up with much more powerful channels than a Cleric (although you will end up with a lot more channels). This might have been better as a Cleric variant rather than a whole new class.</p>
<p>I'd like to give it 4.5 stars as the flaws aren't that major, but sadly that's not possible.</p>Paul Watson2010-09-17T10:22:26Z