Choose your weapon and stride boldly into battle with Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment! Within this handy, all-in-one reference, you'll find 400 jam-packed pages of magic items and adventuring gear, from simple camping equipment and weapons up to the most earth-shaking artifacts. Included as well are handy rules references, convenient price lists, and extensive random treasure generation tables, all organized to help you find what you need, when you need it. With this vast catalog of tools and treasures, the days of boring dragon hoards are over, and your hero will never be caught unprepared again.
Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment is a must-have companion volume to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds on more than 10 years of system development and open playtests featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment includes:
Thousands of items both magical and mundane, including the best weapons, armors, magic items, and gear from the Pathfinder RPG hardcover line and select other Pathfinder sources, as well as hundreds of never-before-seen items.
Tons of special materials and magical abilities to help you create exactly the magic item you've been looking for.
A wealth of specific magic items, organized by type to ensure your character is always wearing as much magic as possible.
An innovative new treasure generation system, designed to help GMs roll up exactly what they need, every time.
New alchemical weapons, tools, and poisons.
Kits to help your character get the most out of her skills or profession, plus new mounts, animal companions, and retainers.
Descriptions of every item, plus hundreds of full-color illustrations to aid in window-shopping.
Ultimate Magic gathers *most* of the mundane and magic items printed in Pathfinder resources insofar. As a "Magic Item Compendium" it's a very good publication, with one snag - while it would be way too much to expect *every* PF item listed here, a select few that became extremely popular are missing here - agile weapon property, I am looking at you. Nevertheless, it's a combination of existing and new stuff that works very well as a comprehensive resource for your Pathfinder games. Also, a few really not working items (garrote, hello!) haven't been reprinted here and some errors (APG staff pricing) are fixed. So yeah, I wish this book was a bit more ultimate than it is.
However, what *really* blows this book out of the water for me as the GM is the random treasure generation system. Best one I've seen so far, with attention to detail and usefulness not seen in any other resource I've happened upon in d20. Sorry MIC, this is where UE wins hands down. Invaluable time saver so dearly missed from Pathfinder since day 1 is here.
UPDATE: After getting the hardcover and realizing that it pretty much works as a complete equipment resource for players (including class-tailored item kits), I've bumped the review up a star. But I am still a bit grumpy over the agile enhancement!
This book has a lot of great ideas in it. The charts are neat and some of he things you can do with them are just awesome; or they would be if so many of the items weren't so screwy. Many are just cut and paste jobs, errors and all, from earlier sources. Some beg obvious questions and clarifications that aren't provided and make little to no sense when compared with the "Core" rules.
My advice is to skip this book and wait for the next printing/errata; it desperately needs it.
Perhaps I've become spoiled but I expect a lot more from a Paizo hardcover than this.
Had a good look through the book and am liking a lot of things I'm seeing Including new Items that use Ki and stat enhancers that give other benefits. Add in the large number of tables and charts and I think it is a real winner.
This hardcover consists of many reprints of old items. However, these reprints do not correct any previous errors. We have mispriced items all over the place.
In addition, Ultimate Equipment does not reprint all of Pathfinder RPG's magic items. If it is to be a collection of reprints, then it needs to be a complete collection. It found room to reprint even the rules for masterwork items, why could it not be a complete collection?
Why pay money for a incomplete book of cut-and-paste, error-filled reprints?
Further, the original content in Ultimate Equipment spans a wide range of writing quality. Prices for magic items are often inconsistent. Also, the active monk hate, from the brawling armor enhancement to the blade of the sword-saint, was not appreciated. Including a monk's holy avenger and making it such that a monk is not proficient in it was a fine piece of work.
It's as if the entire book is entirely unedited. If I actually wanted to use this book, I would have to wade through so much text and fix many, many items myself.
One star. There's no excuse for this book. Edit your books, Paizo, so I don't have to.
This is a fantastic book, with sky-high production values. The indexing and arrangement of the items is probably the biggest strength - it is fast to find everything in the book. I love that it includes items from all the other core books, so that there is no need to go hunting between books for elusive bits of kit. This is one of the few hardcovers I'll actually tote to sessions for my players to look through.
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I would like to see a third edition in which they add everything that has come out in the AP's, Player's Guides, Campaign Settings, etc.
That should add another 50-100 pages.
