Gothic Grimoires: The Necrotic Verses (PFRPG) PDF

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The first in our new line of Gothic Grimoires, The Necrotic Verses presents a study in artistic horror delving into the dark side of magical music, betwixt the macabre and madness. Penned by an impresario whose creative curiosity became his undoing, The Necrotic Verses is an ideal complement to a Gothic Adventure Path or any game where the tragedy of flawed genius and the corruption of artistic creation drives men and women to ruin. Featuring a detailed history and description, The Necrotic Verses breaks open heretofore unknowable secrets to the bardic oeuvre, including 9 new bardic masterpieces from the Dance of the Empty Moons to the Opus of the Golden King, each more disturbing than the last.

Designed by Jason Nelson and Clark Peterson with the Legendary Games design team of Neil Spicer, Greg A. Vaughan, Clinton J. Boomer, Matt Goodall, Jim Groves, and Russ Taylor. Who better to provide you with alternate magical books, spells, and rules for your Adventure Path campaign than the very writers of those adventures themselves? Answer: no one. Legendary Games' Adventure Path Plug-Ins supplement and enrich your campaign experience, offering adventures and supporting products that incorporate and expanding upon unique concepts, themes, and rules subsystems introduced in the Adventure Paths while filling in the background characters, items, and locations that make those adventures come alive in delightful (and often dangerous) detail. Legendary Games combines stellar writing talent with innovative layout and product design and top-notch artistic values that we think will bring you back again and again.

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Fantastic!

5/5

This is a really fun add-on for anyone running, say, the Carrion Crown adventure path. Or anything gothic.

First thing: The artwork is fantastic. There's only the one image, but it jumps off the page as both realistic and yet having that dream-like creepy gothic edge.

The new bard-centric mechanics are great too. The masterpieces are worthy of Lovecraft himself, and the mythos tome itself is something I will drop into a campaign the very next chance I get.

Thanks Legendary Games!


A must-buy of macabre bardic options, all wrapped as a grimoire

5/5

This pdf is 1 8 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, 1 page introduction of what this is, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 4 pages of content, so let's check this out!

This pdf introduces us with one new grimoire, i.e. one of the cool books pioneered for PFRPG by Legendary Games - the book contains thus a book with an extensive background history that allows access to a variety of a special powers - at a price. Tomes like this can damage the mind of those reading them and this homage to Erich Zann's story (with an appropriate twist) contains not only an interesting background story, but also a couple of spells - if you dare brave these deadly pages.

The true meat of this pdf, though, would be the 9 new masterpieces:
-The Dance of Empty Moons can slow and maze its listener by sending them to what is obviously a nod towards the court of the King in Yellow.

-Dead Man's Frolic allows you to use fascinate and suggestions on the undead and even nauseate/entangle them.

-Masque Macabre: Twist a glamer into a frightening and disturbing mask that makes you more intimidating and add a sickened condition to those hit by your fear-effects.

-Mordant Coda: This one is GENIUS: Not only does it allow you to countersing haunt-effects and allows you to damage them, it also makes it possible for you to banish haunts into your instruments and carry them to other locations! Pure, storytelling genius and solid rules to supplement them - Awesome!

-Music of the Spheres: Enthrall others with the night sky for prolonged time and have them look for the sky. Also implant curse-style compulsions in a single being.

-Opus of the Golden King: Clearly pointing towards the King in Yellow, this opera is a combination of mad hallucination and up to 7 consecutive different effects - glorious!

-Pnakotic Fugue: In direct comparison, this is almost simple - almost: You can designate a given creature and make it appear as an alien being, affecting them as per song of discord and inciting them to either attack the nearest or the "alien" creature.

-The Scare Chord greatly enhances your intimidating prowess and your fear-dependent DCs.

Conclusion:
Editing and formatting, as I've come to Expect from legendary Games, is top-notch: I didn't notice a single glitch. Layout adheres to Legendary Games' gorgeous two-column standard that immediately draws you into its gothic and disturbing appeal - glorious. Speaking of glorious: The full-color artwork of the grimoire is GORGEOUS and can rank among the finest pieces out there. Kudos and again, two thumbs up - especially at this price point! Furthermore, the pdf comes with a printer-friendly version and is FULLY bookmarked -kudos for going the extra mile, even at this length.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you one of the best, if not the best collection of bardic masterpieces out there for PFRPG. This is a glorious little pdf, full of cool ideas, doing unique things with the masterpieces and steeping them in intriguing, evocative lore that will result in an appropriate feeling of dread and knowing, gibbering chuckles by aficionados of the mythos. Rules-wise, the crunch expertly supplements the stellar fluff, resulting in yet another easily given 5 stars + seal of approval for this excellent little pdf by legendary games.

Endzeitgeist out.


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Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Woo! Hope you all enjoy the first of our Gothic Grimoires. Sorry for the delay in getting the product posted up here, but on the plus side that means a shorter delay before the next Gothic Grimoire goes live here! Next issue of Gothic Grimoires should be coming this Friday: On the Inverse Calculus of Unseen Refraction.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

So when do we get some more of these?


Jason Nelson

why dont you just put it togheter at 4.99?

i will buy this one too, you made me a fan of yours

questions:

Fiddler´s Lamment, Murmuring Fountain, treasury of the macabre, construction codex, and so, did we gonna see a portrait version?


And reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. Cheers!

RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4

Just bought this last night, because as it turns out a surefire way to get my money is to give me yet more bard options.
Extremely excellent stuff; a lot of times I read new masterpiece ideas and seriously have to wonder if they're worth the cost. These seem to be worth sacrificing known spell and/or feat (plus a wee bit of your character's sanity...) The backstory is top notch, as well; and I absolutely love the Erich Zann naming homage.
But, I do need to make a note that both the product info above and the backstory fluff in the PDF claim that there are nine masterpieces; there seem to be only eight. (Maybe number nine only appears when the reader has lost a certain amount of his sanity?)
Not a complaint; this has value well worth the price and one less masterpiece than advertised does not detract from that. Just thought I'd point it out so someone can change the information as needed.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

judas 147 wrote:

Jason Nelson

why dont you just put it togheter at 4.99?

It's a fair question, and here are the reasons why:

While we released two in fairly quick succession, they aren't the only two in the pipeline. The idea for Gothic Grimoires is partially about content. Sometimes you have an idea for a product that isn't quite big enough to make a full-sized product without feeling like you're stretching it, but if you put it into a larger product it would feel imbalanced, like too large of a slice devoted to one idea.

Sometimes the idea doesn't necessarily fit well with other things either. The next product I'll be previewing for 2013 is entitled The Mad Doctor's Formulary, and it was originally a tome concept that Boomer sent me last summer that was slated for inclusion in Tomes of Arcane Knowledge, but it didn't really fit thematically, and mechanically I just kept wondering what exactly to do with making it work as a product. So, it got cut and pushed to the back burner. Then I thought about recasting it as a ki product for Meditations of the Imperial Mystics, but it really didn't fit there either.

That product was really in my mind when I thought of this Gothic Grimoires line of products - the product that is unique enough to stand on its own and to not fit well with other things. Now, ironically, it also showed that publication is a fluid business, because as I continued working with the text and working out the rules, it kept growing and growing. Ironically, Boomer's original idea for a tome, entitled On the Clockwork of Capillaries, now resides as a sample tome in a larger product devoted entirely to the concept of mad science and malevolent medicine. The piece of a larger product became an independent smaller product, and then grew back into an entirely new larger one!

So, yes, publication is fluid, but maybe the bigger issue I wanted to address was regularity of product flow. We are a small company that all of us do in our spare time, and that means product flow can be erratic. It also means we are subject to time fluctuations when we have a breakdown on the part of any member of the production chain, from author to artist to layout, for any reason. These smaller products are easier to COMPLETE than the larger ones, which means they can be done in and around and between larger product releases, thereby allowing you, the customer, to get a steadier stream of Legendary Games product.

That plan didn't work quite as intended, given that two of our key guys were temporarily waylaid by new babies in the family, but looking forward I think it should prove to be a useful product line to continue providing products that are:

1. Robust enough in concept to stand alone.
2. Don't necessarily have to thematically mesh with anything else, allowing them to not compromise on their theme just to fit in with others.
3. Easier for us to get to market on a consistent and regular basis, so we can avoid long gaps between releases.

Make sense?

judas 147 wrote:

i will buy this one too, you made me a fan of yours

questions:

Fiddler´s Lamment, Murmuring Fountain, treasury of the macabre, construction codex, and so, did we gonna see a portrait version?

Glad you enjoy the products!

As for portrait revisions, at this time I would say we are not planning on going back to our old products and producing portrait versions, if only because I don't know that there's a big financial incentive for us to invest in revising old products that way. That said, I am no layout expert, and if it turns out to be the case that translating those files into portrait is something that Liz can easily accomplish without a big time investment, then maybe we will, but continuing to get our current and future production on schedule and out to you has to be our higher priority.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

DankeSean wrote:

Just bought this last night, because as it turns out a surefire way to get my money is to give me yet more bard options.

Extremely excellent stuff; a lot of times I read new masterpiece ideas and seriously have to wonder if they're worth the cost. These seem to be worth sacrificing known spell and/or feat (plus a wee bit of your character's sanity...) The backstory is top notch, as well; and I absolutely love the Erich Zann naming homage.
But, I do need to make a note that both the product info above and the backstory fluff in the PDF claim that there are nine masterpieces; there seem to be only eight. (Maybe number nine only appears when the reader has lost a certain amount of his sanity?)
Not a complaint; this has value well worth the price and one less masterpiece than advertised does not detract from that. Just thought I'd point it out so someone can change the information as needed.

Maybe I've lost enough SAN, but I'm counting 9 masterpieces when I look at the product. Let me see...

Dance of the Empty Moons
Dead Man's Frolic
Masque Macabre
Mordant Coda
Music of the Spheres
Opus of the Golden King
Pnakotic Fugue
Scare Chord

Whoa, that is only 8, and I figured out why it looks like 9. In my original word document, there's a quirk in how the text looks when I "page down" through the document. Starting at the point where the first Dance begins, I see 2, then page down and see Masque Macabre at the bottom of the screen, then page down again and see Masque at the top of the screen/top of a new page. Even just now looking through it I could've sworn I counted 9 not once but twice, but on actually typing them out you're sure right, it's just 8.

The mind plays tricks on you for sure! I guess this product really DOES have the power to unhinge the mind! :)

My apologies for the error and my delight for the fact you enjoyed the product as much as you do!


This is going on my wishlist for when I have money.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

@Wolf: I look forward to your purchase! (and that's another reason for the Gothic Grimoires line - to make it easier for people to try out our product with smaller, half-price PDFs)

@Endy: Thanks so much for the great review! We hope we continue to impress with our upcoming offerings.

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