Yeah! A 4 Star Review on RPGNow!
I just want to say thank you to Endzeitgeist for his review.
My only comment on the review is on the part about how the product made few references to specific deities. Even after 10 years of of the OGL, few instantly recognizable deities are OGL. You can pretty much count them on one hand. Orcus (thanks to Necromancer Games) is one of those few. None of Paizo's gods are OGL. Same with FR or Eb deities. I could have made up my own deities or pulled from some OGL products that are not instantly recognizable, but then I would have had to define them somewhere within and I felt doing it was beyond the scope of this particular product.
But again, thank you for reviewing.
Yeah, I know that the deities-problem in OGL really sucks. I didn't want to say that I wanted more specific references, but rather that I would have enjoyed a more diverse set of circumstances that led to being entrapped in a weapon.
Take the barrister-example, e.g.:
If e.g. the soul in the "Rapier of the Judge" had tried to bring another cleric of the same god (or the god of trickery) down (the other one being guilty of some crime), asked for divine assistance in the investigation and got the sword, but ultimately failed in the trial due to some blunder and had to pay the price for failure and the assistance, the sword would have instantly been more appealing: The barrister disappeared and PCs get the sword when they suddenly realize: The vanished agent of justice is in the sword and asks them to help him start pay of his debt to the god of justice.
Or what about someone, whose soul is now in the blade, while another entity like a demon or a ghost or the like inhabits his body?
Could pose an interesting conundrum: Do the players free the soul and lose their weapon or do they keep the weapon and torment the captured soul to vanquish other evil?
Both examples are generic and derivate from the tried formula and include ready-made hooks.
Stories like that would have gone along way to improve this book, which often follows the formula:
Champion of god has weapon. Champion dies. Soul gets somehow drawn into the weapon.
Only my two cents, though.
And I loved the pictures of the weapons! :)
Fair points.
The artwork, I have to say is all Sade's doing. She's really an amazing artist. I'm not a fan of 3d humanoids, but her objects are quite good.
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