[Raging Swan Press] Do You Want a Free Copy of GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing Worth $13.95?


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Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Over at Raging Swan Press's Global HQ, I've been plotting and scheming (again). My plan—to extend Raging Swan's fell shadow over the gaming hobby—needs your help.

I want to give you a free copy of GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing worth $13.95.

In return you'll promise (and cross your heart) to post up an honest, informative review of the book to as many of the following places—Paizo, OBS and Amazon—as possible within the next month.

I've got 20 copies to give away via OBS. If you are interested in snagging a copy, and you are a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM, drop me an email to gatekeeper [at] ragingswan [dot] com by Thursday evening. I'll send the first 20 applicants a free copy of GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing via OBS (so please include your OBS registered email address in your email) on Friday morning.

About GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing
Tired of glossing over the details of your PCs’ overland journey (except for the inevitable, violent random encounters)? Want to add in minor features of interest to their journeys? Want to make their journeys seem more “real”? Then GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing is for you! A compilation of the Wilderness Dressing line, each instalment focuses on a different type of wilderness or a feature therein and gives the harried GM the tools to bring such features to life with interesting and cool noteworthy features.

GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing presents loads of great features and details to enliven your PCs’ travel both overland and by sea. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing is an invaluable addition to any GM’s armoury!

GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing presents the material originally appearing in:

Wilderness Dressing: Bandits
Wilderness Dressing: Castles
Wilderness Dressing: Deserts
Wilderness Dressing: Extreme Weather
Wilderness Dressing: Hills
Wilderness Dressing: Mountains
Wilderness Dressing: Plains
Wilderness Dressing: Primal Forests
Wilderness Dressing: Ruins
Wilderness Dressing: Sea Voyages
Wilderness Dressing: Snow and Ice
Wilderness Dressing: Swamps
Wilderness Dressing: Travellers
Wilderness Dressing: Woodlands
New Material: Farmlands, Small Caves, Borderlands, Shipwrecks, Coast and Campsites.

Already Have it?
If you've already got GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing, I'd be delighted if you'd post a review of the book! Alternatively, if you'd like to support Raging Swan Press we are on Patreon and would love you to join our campaign.


OK, sounds good, but I do have a question...what is OBS?


OBS is DriveThruRPG or RPGNow.


Email has been sent. I've been wanting this product since my Kingmaker campaign started. :-)


Email sent.

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Emails received, chaps. You are on my list!

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

I've got a few copies left of this book to give away free in return for an honest review. If you fancy a copy, you've got until tomorrow morning (UK time) to register your interest!


It's a great book. I recommend people take this offer!

I just used it to create a good rain storm event two sessions ago; my players loved it.


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Definitely worth taking advantage of this offer. I picked up the PDFs not long ago. Planning a review of my own soon.

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Thank you chaps--much appreciated. I look forward to the review, Brother Fen!


E-mail sent. Thanks for the opportunity.


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

Im interested. I love the Raging Swan products.


If it is 90% as good as dungeon dressing then it is a 5 star book.


Email sent. Hope you have more "copies" left. :-)


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Nicos wrote:
If it is 90% as good as dungeon dressing then it is a 5 star book.

I'm pretty much in agreement with this statement, though I reserve judgment until I actually finish reading the book.

I'll be downloading it tonight and start reading like crazy. Looks like my Pathfinder Tales reading is going to drop off for a month. ;)

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Itchy wrote:
Nicos wrote:
If it is 90% as good as dungeon dressing then it is a 5 star book.

I'm pretty much in agreement with this statement, though I reserve judgment until I actually finish reading the book.

I'll be downloading it tonight and start reading like crazy. Looks like my Pathfinder Tales reading is going to drop off for a month. ;)

Good man! I hope you enjoy it!

Sovereign Court

Is there a preferred method of reporting a typo, and is that sort of thing something that you'd like for us to do?


Can you include a link of all the product pages you want reviewed at? [or does that come with the email that includes the pdf?]

Sovereign Court

I posted a review on both Amazon and Paizo. The OBS review will come soon.

I will likely also post the review to my blog either today or tomorrow.


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I've received my copy and just started going through it. I've only read the section on Campsites thus far, but if the rest of the book is of the same quality, it's a definite keeper. :-)

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Lorathorn wrote:

I posted a review on both Amazon and Paizo. The OBS review will come soon.

I will likely also post the review to my blog either today or tomorrow.

Thanks, Lorathorn for the swift and comprehensive review. It's jolly decent of you. What's your blog address?

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

kyrt-ryder wrote:
Can you include a link of all the product pages you want reviewed at? [or does that come with the email that includes the pdf?]

If you head over to the book's webpage you'll find all the direct links to its listing on OBS, Paizo and so on.


If the offer is still good I'd love a copy of Wilderness Dressing: Ruins!


I've begun reviewing.

I'll have many nice things to say, I'm sure, but @Creighton Broadhurst, I just wanted to note a preliminary finding:

Your proofing is not up to snuff on this one. For largely previously-published content merely gathered together here, I'd expect more of the errors to be formatting and fewer to be significant omissions or other problems.

Sadly, that's not what I'm finding so far.

NOTE: "Numbered Page" = the number Raging Swan Press has assigned to the page on the bottom outside corner (evens on the left, odds on the right).
"Page" = the number that your pdf reader program will give you.
I will try to always list both, so that you can use whichever is more convenient to you in identifying the relevant passages.

Examples:
How about page 22/ Numbered Page 24 (both versions) where two - TWO - of the six haunts are missing a Caster Level.

In some ways this isn't necessary as Paizo says caster level = CR. But if you're going to list Caster Level (as Paizo does, and as RSP does on all the other haunts), then why are you leaving it out of every third entry.
One out of three is way too high a failure rate.

Also, while Paizo may seem to be clear that Caster Level = CR, this in fact can't be the entirety of the rule. With adjustments for reset time, etc., it is easily possible for CR < minimum caster level to create the effect.

While sound burst doesn't have caster-level-scaling for damage, hungry pit has caster-level-scaling for duration, and since we can't absolutely rely on caster level = CR, this is really not an acceptable error.

Understandable in the midst of 145+ pages of content? Sure. Acceptable? Sadly not.

===================

Another example that I noticed is page 152/ Numbered Page 150 (both versions) for the Pirate Ship Flags and Figureheads.

Check out the middle of the 2nd column:

Quote:

57‐58 Mail‐clad female warrior

59‐60 Mail‐clad warrior

Really, Raging Swan?

Look, let's be clear: treating male as the default is not a horrible assault or anything. However as a hobby/ pastime/ creative endeavor, we have been trying to get better about that. It is much less noticeable (and, partly for that reason, much less likely to be alienating to women and trans* gamers) to have a paragraph describing an npc as a "warrior" instead of a "male warrior" with the only clue to gender being pronouns. Yes, that's technically treating male as the default, but as a description of a particular character it's both somewhat understandable (you don't describe **everything** about an individual character, even if that character's blood pressure is 7 points above normal - to save space you describe only what's important to communicate to the reader) and far less obtrusive since the descriptions of female characters aren't taking place right there in the same paragraph so if there is different treatment, it doesn't stand out.

But this isn't that. If Raging Swan Press wants to meet the standards for welcoming all gamers that are set by Paizo, it has to have editors able to catch this sort of thing where in a long list of possible statues or enemies or what have you we **don't want**

Quote:

Orc

Female Orc
Druid
Female Druid
Game Designer
Female Game Designer
...&c...

In my final review, I'll note this in a much less wordy way, but here where RSP is likely to be reading, I wanted to take more time to explain that I don't believe this measures up to what we as a community should expect.

No, I don't hold you to some "perfect justice" standard. If I had only noticed gendered assumptions/defaults in paragraph-level descriptions of NPCs I'd not have mentioned it, since it may not be ideal, but in a work where the really blatant things like adjacent list items are addressed it certainly meets our real world standards.

Nonetheless, I do hold you to a standard, I think this sort of thing falls short, and I think ...

...given the priority D&D 3.x on + Pathfinder have placed on not repeating the gendered ignorance of the Gary Gygax era ...

we as a community should expect a press that is as thoughtful and creative as Raging Swan to have editors that will notice and fix these things.

This is true especially (but not only) in a product that collects previously published work and thus gives Raging Swan an extra chance to eye things over.

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These are just two examples, but I've noticed a few other editorial glitches. While so far Wilderness Dressing appears very useful, the attention to detail so far is an attention to **creative** detail - to coming up with good ideas and thoroughly expressing those ideas.

It does not include, sadly, an attention to other details I'd expect RSP to get right.


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Oh, hell, so much for me lecturing anyone on editing for detail.

When identifying the haunt example here:

Quote:

Examples:

How about page 22/ Numbered Page 24 (both versions) where two - TWO - of the six haunts are missing a Caster Level.

I totally messed up my own system.

it should read

Quote:

Examples:

How about page 24/ Numbered Page 22 (both versions) where two - TWO - of the six haunts are missing a Caster Level.

Sovereign Court

Creighton Broadhurst wrote:
Lorathorn wrote:

I posted a review on both Amazon and Paizo. The OBS review will come soon.

I will likely also post the review to my blog either today or tomorrow.

Thanks, Lorathorn for the swift and comprehensive review. It's jolly decent of you. What's your blog address?

https://elvenwizardking.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/a-few-reviews-more-i-get-b y-with-a-little-help-from-indie-games/

It was my pleasure.

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

CripDyke wrote:

I've begun reviewing.

I'll have many nice things to say, I'm sure, but @Creighton Broadhurst, I just wanted to note a preliminary finding:

Your proofing is not up to snuff on this one. For largely previously-published content merely gathered together here, I'd expect more of the errors to be formatting and fewer to be significant omissions or other problems.

Sadly, that's not what I'm finding so far.

NOTE: "Numbered Page" = the number Raging Swan Press has assigned to the page on the bottom outside corner (evens on the left, odds on the right).
"Page" = the number that your pdf reader program will give you.
I will try to always list both, so that you can use whichever is more convenient to you in identifying the relevant passages.

Examples:
How about page 22/ Numbered Page 24 (both versions) where two - TWO - of the six haunts are missing a Caster Level.

In some ways this isn't necessary as Paizo says caster level = CR. But if you're going to list Caster Level (as Paizo does, and as RSP does on all the other haunts), then why are you leaving it out of every third entry.
One out of three is way too high a failure rate.

Also, while Paizo may seem to be clear that Caster Level = CR, this in fact can't be the entirety of the rule. With adjustments for reset time, etc., it is easily possible for CR < minimum caster level to create the effect.

While sound burst doesn't have caster-level-scaling for damage, hungry pit has caster-level-scaling for duration, and since we can't absolutely rely on caster level = CR, this is really not an acceptable error.

Understandable in the midst of 145+ pages of content? Sure. Acceptable? Sadly not.

===================

Another example that I noticed is page 152/ Numbered Page 150 (both versions) for the Pirate Ship Flags and Figureheads.

Check out the middle of the 2nd column:

Quote:

57‐58 Mail‐clad female warrior

59‐60 Mail‐clad warrior

Really, Raging Swan?

Look, let's be clear: treating...

Thanks for the kind words and the typo spotting. I'd happily get a list of your typos. While I have no plans for a reprint at the moment if I was to do one, I would certainly like to expunge as many errors as possible. When you have a full list, if you could send it to gatekeeper [at] raging swan.com I can move it over to the supplement's folder.


@Creighton Broadhurst

I'd be happy to give you a list of typos/minor errors like this.

I like your stuff: it's dead useful, and lots of it you provide to the community for free with your DM's Miscellany. It's only fair we give back.

Sovereign Court

CripDyke has asked that I post here to ask that any other persons compiling find typos should contact him.


And I reviewed it here, on RPGNow, and Amazon. :)

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

And thanks very much for the balanced, thoughtful review, Geistlinger!


I finally got my review posted tonight. It is up on Paizo, OBS and Amazon.


Reviews have been posted on Paizo, OBS, and Amazon.


And Review posted here. Headed off to OBS.


Review posted.

I feel sorry for the delay, but the last moth my job was consuming my soul.

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Thanks so much, Nicos. I'm glad you enjoyed the book and I'm sorry your job has been tricky this last month! Hopefully, July will be better for you!

Silver Crusade

I would love to take you up on this offer if it's still available


yes please. :)


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Not looking for the offer, but seeing the thread update is what reminded me your product was out there, so i snagged a copy for my upcoming kingmaker game. After reading it, i am happy with my purchase. Just wanted to say Thanks for your work.

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

EltonJ wrote:

yes please. :)

Sorry, chaps, but this offer is finished! That said, I'll be unleashing another one soon!

Sovereign Court Publisher, Raging Swan Press

Rathendar wrote:
Not looking for the offer, but seeing the thread update is what reminded me your product was out there, so i snagged a copy for my upcoming kingmaker game. After reading it, i am happy with my purchase. Just wanted to say Thanks for your work.

Thanks very much. I'm glad you liked the book and I hope it helps running Kingmaker just that little bit easier!


If there is one left I would gladly review it for you!

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