This very slim 32 page addition for the Pathfinder Campaign Setting primarily adds new weapons to your Pathfinder campaign, and is easily adapted to most Fantasy Role Playing Games.

There's charts for weapons on the inside front and inside back covers. Inside, of course, there's a large section on Weapons, Armor, and Adventuring Gear, and small sections on combat, faith, magic, an NPC in the Persona section, and social info.

This book is a supplement to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. The regular weapons pages gives info on everything from Aklys to Wooden Stakes. There's a very small bit about armor and shields. There are great new Adventuring Gear items, from Area Maps to Wrist Sheaths. Even more special substances like Alchemical Grease or a Water Purification Sponge. There are tool kits and spell kits, Clothing, Food Drink and lodging, mounts pets and gear, Entertainment items, what's available on the Black Market, and converting Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting items.

Then comes the charts you will need in order to introduce all these things to your campaign. There's also a quick overview of Equipment Tricks, Channelling Foci, Alchemical components, and Equipment traits and new feats. Then there's Arayam Bismut, an alchemist for hire, who has an interesting back story, and a number of kinfolk. He might make a great NPC when GM's go looking for adventure seeds.

Although you might think the small size of this book limits its focus, I believe that it is chock full of useful gaming facts. My players use it all the time. The only thing keeping it to just three stars is the total length - I wish it had been bigger. Highly recommended.

While the book has lots of nice idea for equipment, its got some serious strikes against it.

1. Errata in a book of equipment is a killer. Its not as big a problem when its some side issue, but the whole point of a book like this is stats, and there were too many mistakes on that front.

2. Format. This follows the standard format of Player's Companion books, which is odd for a book like this and causes you to have pages on an alchemist NPC that I really don't care that much about.

3. Some of the best stuff in here ends up in the Advanced Player's Guide as well. You may want to check and see if that stuff you really just have to have is reprinted there before picking this up.

I am currently setting up for a non-magic game and this book is just what I need to spice up the items my PCs can acquire and make the world as fantastic as a magic one without being one itself.

Thanks.

I really enjoy the Pathfinder books. Great pictures, good quality paper, easy to read. There were a lot of really cool ideas in it.

Being a type A personality I was very disappointed with the Armoury's incompleteness... it looked like there was a rush to make a buck(this is very WOTC). Please proofread your books before sending them to the printer. I hate random pieces of errata sticking out of my books (which I treasure). :)

I love buying your products, but I will not spend extra funds on reprints. Do we send them in for the "free" revision printing

These are some of the issues I had with this product:

1 A one pound Butterfly Knife is listed as a one handed melee weapon, not a light melee weapon (this makes it more cumbersome to use).

2. The following items have listings on the charts, but no descriptions: Dogslicer, War Razor, Earthbreaker, Ogre Hook, Falcata, Kopesh, Temple Sword, Urumi, Bladed Scarf, Shoanti bola, Stoneplate Armor.

3. Several items have the opposite problem from #2 above. The following items are described, but not listed on the equipment charts: Armored Kilt, Pata, Thistle Arrow, Thorn Bow, Combat Scabbard (unsharpened).

4. Several items could have used more information, because the text given is inadequate to describe the item, or how it is used. For Example: The Sawtooth Sabre and Tent (how many people per tent size?)

5. The Garrotte is WEAK and unrealistic.

6. The Persona section is wasted space.

7. The Travelling Spellbook is listed in the "Special Substances and Items" descriptions, but is listed in the "Adventuring Gear" list.

8. The Equipment Trick feat lists the following items: boots, cloak, rope, shield, and Heavy Blade Scabbard, yet only the Heavy Blade Scabbard and Shield are described.

9. A few items are listed out of alphabetical order. For example: The Prohecies of Kalistrade before Printing Press, and Riding Dog before Combat Trained Dog in the descriptions.

10. A few of the descriptions are confusing, and seem to contradict themselves.