paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)2023-11-01T19:11:03Z2023-11-01T19:11:03ZPathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG): 5 stars because... (5 stars)Crodgehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9he0?Pathfinder-Player-Companion-Agents-of-Evil2016-12-07T16:20:43Z<p><b>Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)</b></p><p>This book finally introduces an enchantment you can put on your armor to cause alignment detecting divination magic to read whatever alignment you want to broadcast. THIS IS HUGE! </p>
<p>Before this, ways of disguising alignment were obvious, due to will saves, or the fact they made you always broadcast Neutral Neutral. NO MORE! Now your bad guys can broadcast any alignment, my favorite so far being Neutral Good, as its just so dang believable.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)</b></p><p>This book finally introduces an enchantment you can put on your armor to cause alignment detecting divination magic to read whatever alignment you want to broadcast. THIS IS HUGE! </p>
<p>Before this, ways of disguising alignment were obvious, due to will saves, or the fact they made you always broadcast Neutral Neutral. NO MORE! Now your bad guys can broadcast any alignment, my favorite so far being Neutral Good, as its just so dang believable.</p>Crodge2016-12-07T16:20:43ZPathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG): Being an AGENT of evil (3 stars)Lord Twitchiopolishttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9he0?Pathfinder-Player-Companion-Agents-of-Evil2015-12-25T08:29:25Z<p><b>Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)</b></p><p>What this book is: a list of options for characters who plan on working with an evil source. An agent, of evil, if you will.
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What this book is not: a guidebook for evil characters. Pick of Champions of Corruption if that's what you need.</p>
<p>Agents of Evil is a great book for those looking to engage an evil, or at least morally ambiguous, campaign but aren't ready to go full mustache twirling, baby eating, "hail Asmodeus!" monster. It comes with a plethora of story feats that play off of the fall of morality, some class options for clerics and summoners that let non-evil ones work better with the wicked, and a few other goodies that fit right into settings like Skull and Shackles and Reign of Winter.</p>
<p>That said, if you want your character to fully embrace darkness... well, this book isn't that. For an AP like Way of the Wicked, where the PCs are supposed to be fully in the dark side of the alignment axis, this book's "slightly darker than gray" themes won't satisfy you. Champions of Corruption will serve you better.</p>
<p>The reason for the three star review isn't the part of the moral spectrum it chooses to cover, it's about the multiple directions this book tried to go and the fact it really didn't satisfy any of those directions.
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I cannot call it a rules book (like I would the Weapon Master's Handbook); there are chapters that are only one quarter mechanics or rules.
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I cannot call it a fluff book (like I would Champions of Balance); no given concept is given extensive extensive coverage. A given idea (such as dealing with evil as a method of survival) is given merely a paragraph, rather than a column or page.
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I cannot call it a lore book (as I would the Books of the Damned or Numeria: Land of Fallen Stars); while Golarion specifics are mentioned, there's just so much that this book tried to cover that no given topic was given its due.
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In the end, the book just feel confused.</p>
<p>Final verdict; just like its subject matter, it's not a BAD book, but it's not a particularly GOOD one either. If you are on the fence, I suggest borrowing a copy before you commit to it.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Player Companion: Agents of Evil (PFRPG)</b></p><p>What this book is: a list of options for characters who plan on working with an evil source. An agent, of evil, if you will.
<br />
What this book is not: a guidebook for evil characters. Pick of Champions of Corruption if that's what you need.</p>
<p>Agents of Evil is a great book for those looking to engage an evil, or at least morally ambiguous, campaign but aren't ready to go full mustache twirling, baby eating, "hail Asmodeus!" monster. It comes with a plethora of story feats that play off of the fall of morality, some class options for clerics and summoners that let non-evil ones work better with the wicked, and a few other goodies that fit right into settings like Skull and Shackles and Reign of Winter.</p>
<p>That said, if you want your character to fully embrace darkness... well, this book isn't that. For an AP like Way of the Wicked, where the PCs are supposed to be fully in the dark side of the alignment axis, this book's "slightly darker than gray" themes won't satisfy you. Champions of Corruption will serve you better.</p>
<p>The reason for the three star review isn't the part of the moral spectrum it chooses to cover, it's about the multiple directions this book tried to go and the fact it really didn't satisfy any of those directions.
<br />
I cannot call it a rules book (like I would the Weapon Master's Handbook); there are chapters that are only one quarter mechanics or rules.
<br />
I cannot call it a fluff book (like I would Champions of Balance); no given concept is given extensive extensive coverage. A given idea (such as dealing with evil as a method of survival) is given merely a paragraph, rather than a column or page.
<br />
I cannot call it a lore book (as I would the Books of the Damned or Numeria: Land of Fallen Stars); while Golarion specifics are mentioned, there's just so much that this book tried to cover that no given topic was given its due.
<br />
In the end, the book just feel confused.</p>
<p>Final verdict; just like its subject matter, it's not a BAD book, but it's not a particularly GOOD one either. If you are on the fence, I suggest borrowing a copy before you commit to it.</p>Lord Twitchiopolis2015-12-25T08:29:25Z