The latest issue of Pathways is 37 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 10 pages of advertisement, leaving us with 24 pages of content, so let's check these out!
David Paul has an interesting editorial this week about violence in real life and games, about keeping kids safe and about the potential for learning life lessons.
This issue's template provides us with the Divine Champion Creature template (CR +2) that allows a creature to essentially go super-saiyan and turn into an avatar-form and we get a CR 5 sample ettercap using it. Neat!
Will Myers has a new magical beast for us, which comes with a nice artwork - the CR 15 Mutah that can breathe different colors of deadly mists with different effects and may even change skin colors to duplicate spells.
Creighton Broadhurst of Raging Swan Press has a sample encounter for us - the Grave of the Mad, in which the players may encounter some poltergeists and the sample artwork provided is also neat - the best thing, though, is the rock-sliding hazard that accompanies this pdf.
Mike Welham provides us with new foes that ufortunately feature an editing glitch - the Screaming (Cr 6), which is called Screaming C in the creature's text, but just "Screaming" in the header. Per se, the screaming undead with its sound-based attacks is neat, though. The CR 9 Dischord may warp words and are spawned from botched countersongs and the like. Cool!
Daron Woodson, head of Abandoned Arts, answers 20 questions in this issue's interview regarding his neat Bullet Point-length pdfs.
The pdf concludes with reviews of some of the best PFRPG-pdfs out there by yours truly and Joshua "KTFish7" Gullion, fellow reviewer and all-out great human being, who has suffered a stroke. If you find it in you, do me a favor and send some positive thoughts in Joshua's direction. Thanks.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are not as good as in other Pathways-issues, though still good. Layout adheres to RiP's -column standard and the pdf is fully bookmarked, which is neat.
This issue of Pathways is, like all of them FREE and as a free file, it is definitely worth being downloaded and read by you. However, this time around also lacked this one component I'd consider truly brilliant, truly awesome and thus, due to this and the minor glitches, I'll settle for a final verdict of 4 stars.
Endzeitgeist out.
