Tome of Secrets


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i have a question about this book, was this book published by Paizo?

my group only uses books published by Paizo so i need to know if it was published by them or if it was just made for pathfinder and published by another company


No it was not. for me it was very hit and miss 80% miss mostly sadly.


I bought it and have had no use for it so far.

The three player races don't fit into my world, though I might consider a very rare half-ogre as an NPC race.

The classes were very hit/miss:
Artificer: overpowered to the point of completely broken
Knight: snooze fest
Priest: this one I like quite a bit
Shaman: very weak
Spellblade: interesting and quite likely balanced well enough to be playable and fair
Swashbuckler: weak, though tweaking it with some APG stuff might work.
WArlock: weak
Warlord: weak

The Drawbacks and Occupations sections both look fun. I have considered adding them to my next campaign.

Morale, Stunts, Chases, and the One-Million Magic Items are all sections I won't be using.

Temporary Enchantment might be workable but seems really unnecessary. Alchemical items had some interesting stuff, as did Monster Modifier. Random Adventure Generator was fun to play with, but I'm a novelist, I like my stories to make more sense than a random generator can provide. And the Flintlocks might be interesting but I have no use for it in my world.

So, for me, I got a couple interesting classes (one that I really like) and a couple new character options, plus a bit of alchemy and monster-tweaking stuff.

Page for page, I probably didn't get my money's worth, but then, I can say that about most 3.x books I bought too. Since I knew it going in (splatbooks are almost always hit/miss), then really, I got pretty much what I expected.

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