The pursuit of knowledge and magic is paramount to the Cynean people and the Cynean wizard Kal-Dor pursued this goal with a fervor and fire unmatched by any of his brethren. However, when this wizard had mastered magic to the extent that he claimed to understand even the Kaga itself, he found his life empty without a goal for which to strive. Using his knowledge and understanding of the arcane arts he crafted a device to serve as both weapon and companion in his new quest: mastery of martial combat.
The Treasures of NeoExodus: Infinite Fury is created for use with your NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting home gaming for the Pathfinder RPG. The Treasures of NeoExodus series focus on creating unique and interesting magical and mundane items that you can use in your NeoExodus home games that give you more a personal connection to the item. This PDF comes with a background and history of Infinite Fury, its special mundane and/or magical qualities plus magic item containing detailed information and blank versions of the cards. Everything you need to incorporate Infinite Fury into your character’s background and your gaming sessions is here making them even more appealing, special and personal.
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This is a review for 'Treasures of NeoExodus: Infinite Fury', a supplement by Louis Porter Jr. Design. I'm not a native speaker (I'm German), so I may have fumbled my language skill checks from time to time. Give me a note if I wrote something wrong and I'll try to make myself more clear.
Infinite Fury has a few lines of introduction and about 1.5 pages of content, followed by another page with a weapon card where you get two identical pics of the weapon, which also is shown in bigger on the front page, and the abilities of the weapon and a blank card for your own thoughts. Additionally we get the OGL and so on.
First of all we get the history of the weapon (Fluff):
The history of the blade presented starts with the history of the wizard who made this longsword and his motives for building it. Its a nice and believable story which is easily included into any campaign whatsoever. Kal-Dor wanted to perfect himself and his weapon reflects this. Thumbs up for this!
Next in line is the Description and construction of the weapon (Fluff):
This part is only six lines long and doesn't provide much more infos than the nice pics already does. I would have liked more informations about that heart-shaped space in it, but this doesn't happen.
And finally we get the rules for the weapon (Crunch):
Infinite Fury is a very costly, about 170,000 gp, and very useful, weapon for all kind of adventurer parties. The big inside bonus on identification checks it gives is well balanced with the time it needs to be activated. The weapon grants Tactical Acumen also, but its not limited to the wielder, which is a nice ability, but isn't matched by the blade's history. Also the history talks about learning combat maneuvers, which aren't reflected in the weapon's abilities (aside from it being defensive).
Conclusion:
I'll give the supplement 4 stars out of 5, my main complains being the high cost which limits including it into anything but high level campaigns, and the Tactical Acumen ability which works, by the spell, for allies also, and this is not rooted in the history part. On the other hand the concept of Infinite Fury is well done and will be a well received addition in the PCs arsenal. It would be great if Infinite Fury could be changed into one of those 'Growing items' Pathfinder Unchained and Purple Duck introduced to get the weapon into a mid-level campaign or even earlier.
This pdf is 4 pages long, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 3 pages of content, so let’s take a look!
The blade Infinite Fury was crafted by the legendary Cynean arcanist Kal-Dor upon mastering (at least in his perception) the arcane arts and turning to physical combat. The Cynean saw the end of his lifespan approaching and tasked the entity within the blade, one Sana-Dol he created, to continue to track the progress of wielders in order to one day accomplish mastery of the martial arts. The blade has since, guided by the intelligence, changed hands multiple times and is an intelligent item.
Rules-wise, the blade can cast 1/day Tactical Acumen. While the write-up features a minor glitch (“insight” has slipped one word ahead of where it’s supposed to stand), the blade can bestow a +2 insight bonus upon identifying creatures. As a full round action, the wielder can even focus on a creature within 60 ft. to gain a +10 bonus to identify the creature and the weapon gains the appropriate bane quality for the type/subtype for the respective creature. You can also use Transformation at will – rather powerful – and lacking the italicization in the text. The blade is a +2 defending transformative mithral longsword, btw.
The final page of the pdf is devoted to beautiful weapon-cards of the sword.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are not up to the recent standard of the line – two (minor) glitches in such a short pdf could have easily been avoided. Layout adheres to LPJr Design’s drop-dead-gorgeous 2-column full color standard and the blade’s artwork is awesome. The pdf has no bookmarks, but needs none and the pdf comes with an additional, more printer-friendly version.
I really like this blade- not only does it allow mages to stand in the front-lines, should they choose to do so, it also makes for great roleplaying/questing goals – perhaps the PCs need the knowledge of the blade. And what if it deems its task complete? That’s narrative potential there. The glitches still somewhat weigh this pdf down, unfortunately, and make it impossible for me to rate this the full 5 stars. Instead, I’ll settle for a final verdict of 4 stars – author Loren Peterson has done a neat job.
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