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Hats off to those in the 3pp community who have taken up the mantle of the reviewer. There are quite a few of us churning out content, and there are only so many books we all can read each year before the itch has been thoroughly scratch. Each of your reviews makes the hobby that much stronger!

Now, rather than spam a bunch of buzzwords, I'll just level with you here. I'm chatting it up because I noticed just how much money these reviews are making me, and I really want as many of them as I can get. In exchange, I have Stuff!

All reviews of IG products reviewed from April 1st to the day hardcover copies of Strange Magic are available will enter the reviewer into a raffle for the proof copy of Strange Magic, signed by myself wherever you like and shipped to your door! In addition, I'll be giving away a $15 shopping spree over at RPGnow.com and drivethrurpg.com for every five reviews submitted (max 10 sprees).

Limit one prize per review. If the winner of the book is international, shipping must be paid out of the winner's pocket. If the winner of the book is from the continental US, shipping will be paid by Interjection Games. Reviews that don't have any substance to them (ie "is gud" or "is bad") or written by contributors to that book will not be eligible for prizes, and will not count toward the number of shopping sprees up for grabs. Thilo "Endzeitgeist" Graf is not eligible for prizes, as he gets everything I write and is getting a hardcover copy of the book anyway, so he's already won. Reviewers must have a OneBookShelf account to claim $15 shopping sprees.

Woooo! Stuff!

So one review = One entry into the raffle, yeah?

Yep. And before anyone actually writes a review, let's change the rules and make the freebies not count. Those likely wouldn't help.

Yep, that's fair. I'll start writing!

Well, Endz suggested I should write more reviews after the one I wrote for RSP, so since I have several IG products, I guess I should get busy.
Silver Crusade

All right, I am in. I will review some of my stuff. I will try to do my best to get at least a couple reviewed.

This is very neat. Currently I'm reviewing Path of Shadows, but I own at least 5 IG products.

Aye. There was some call for signed products during the Kickstarter, but I really didn't want to deal with massed shipping. I figured this would be a fun way to get one copy out there in an exclusive fashion :)

And apparently several means I have 20 separate IG products. More than I thought after I just downloaded all of them to my rebuilt computer.

Starting to work on writing reviews.
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And two reviews written. Love for the Universalist and the Corpseshaper's Toolbox.

One thing that I didn't include in my reviews simply because I didn't think it warranted it, and that is I tend to like introductory fluff text about the class or about the options being presented. Why you are presenting this, what I can expect, etc. Now I know every publisher is different and has a different approach to their gaming/publishing and I respect that. The introductory text just feels like you are easing me into the material. Again, it's just a preference on my part.

Take it or leave it as you choose.

Couple nice, well reasoned and lengthy reviews Sethvir.
Oceanshieldwolf wrote:
Couple nice, well reasoned and lengthy reviews Sethvir.

Thank you. I tried. Doing reviews and trying to do them well is a challenge especially since I don't have a way to playtest virtually any of the material. I have looked at Endzeitgeist's for several years, and his is a gold standard, I think. I don't know that I would ever reach that level of competence at them.

Sethvir wrote:

And two reviews written. Love for the Universalist and the Corpseshaper's Toolbox.

One thing that I didn't include in my reviews simply because I didn't think it warranted it, and that is I tend to like introductory fluff text about the class or about the options being presented. Why you are presenting this, what I can expect, etc. Now I know every publisher is different and has a different approach to their gaming/publishing and I respect that. The introductory text just feels like you are easing me into the material. Again, it's just a preference on my part.

Take it or leave it as you choose.

Thanks for the reviews, chief!

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Just did my part and reviewed my five IG products: Onmyoji, Tinker, Herbalist, Tinkering 201 and the Innovator. All around great stuff!

I haven't written so much in english in years... @.@'
The Ragi wrote:

Just did my part and reviewed my five IG products: Onmyoji, Tinker, Herbalist, Tinkering 201 and the Innovator. All around great stuff!

I haven't written so much in english in years... @.@'

New 1st-level inventions, eh? Gotcha!

I did a quick scan of the original invention book and found a few design holes, which I plugged for you real quick. Consider the contents of my next post official, if a thin reference to something else.

Apologies in advance for the primitive headers on inventions. It's something I'll fix in a couple of Kickstarters, promise. Anywho, here's an entire painting subsystem to play with. I also didn't bother to look up the header system for innovations. Also, you have NO IDEA how good it felt to write this after a month of NPC Codex shenanigans. Seriously, I don't want to see another NPC writeup until 2016.

Presenting "Remedial Tinkering: Happy Little Automatons"

New Innovation

Chromatic Study
Requires: Know at least two paint inventions

You may be targeted by an automaton with the painter's station invention as though you were an automaton with the primer coat invention. You are always treated as though you had the primer coat invention, even after being painted, though being painted replaces the benefits of all other paint inventions applied to you. By extension, in this specific case, you are an exception to the rule that an 'automaton' can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time. Whenever you gain the benefits of the sapphire tint invention, you cannot gain its benefits again for 24 hours, even if you get repainted.

New Inventions

Canary Tint (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 1
No prerequisites

Yellow paint has been slathered upon the automaton. Creatures that fail their saving throw against the automaton's kamikaze directive or a contingent kamikaze are dazzled for 1 round with no saving throw allowed.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Crimson Tint (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 1
No prerequisites

Liberal red paint is daubed upon the automaton. When the automaton charges, it somehow gains a +5-ft. bonus to its base land speed until the end of its turn.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Distinct Lack of Color (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 2
No prerequisites

A coating of tarry black paint grants the automaton DR 1/-. Modern science has yet to explain how on earth this works.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Emerald Tint (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 2
No prerequisites

A coating of bright green paint makes even a mindless machine believe it's better than anyone else. Whenever another friendly automaton is destroyed, the automaton gains a +1 morale bonus to attack and damage rolls for 1 round. This morale bonus affects the automaton even if it's mindless.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Painter's Station (Alpha)
2 BP
Invention 2
No prerequisites

An automaton with this invention is equipped with pots of paint corresponding to all of the paint inventions known by its creator. As a directed standard action, the automaton may remove the primer coat invention from any friendly automaton within reach, replacing it with any one paint invention that its creator knows. In addition, once per day as a directed standard action, the automaton may add the primer coat invention to any one friendly automaton within reach, including itself, replacing any paint invention that automaton may happen to have.

Painter's Whirlwind
2 BP
Invention 3
painter's station

An automaton with this invention may throw paint around in a circle once per day, adding the primer coat invention to all friendly automatons within 10 feet, including itself, and replacing any paint invention each of those automatons may happen to have.

Primer Coat (Design, Paint)
0 BP
Invention 1
No prerequisites

Primer allows paint to stick to a surface more readily. An automaton with this invention is a legal target for the painter's station invention.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Sapphire Tint (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 1
No prerequisites

A few quick strokes of blue paint makes the automaton exceptionally lucky. The automaton rolls twice and takes the better result for the first d20 roll it makes each day.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Violet Tint (Design, Paint)
1 BP
Invention 1
No prerequisites

A quick dip in purple paint grants the automaton a +2 luck bonus to Stealth skill checks.

An automaton can only have one paint invention applied to it at any one time.

Ya know what, I can't turn this idea off. Let me double the content here and put a price tag on it. Enjoy this half!

Though I'd move the 24-hour bit down to sapphire itself and remove the Design descriptor from primer so you can graft it and paint your allies later. You still need to eat your Alpha invention or blow a feat uncoupling the invention from the Alpha descriptor, so it's a fun little thing a specific build can get into. Highly successful content. Gets its fingers into so many places of the core tinker design. Plays nicely with multiple expansions. LOVE it. Need more of these.
Interjection Games wrote:


Thanks for the reviews, chief!

You're welcome and I am working on a couple more. They are more difficult and real life has put a damper on things a bit.

I'm in the process of writing reviews for your older products, and plan to post a bunch all at once some time this weekend.

Hey hey, very nice! I hope you lads have enough gaps to spend those sprees.

How many reviews have you had so far? Does this incentive seem to be drawing them in? :P

Well, I just went looking to post a review of The Maestro Base class and discovered that it had been removed apparently since the advent of the Ultimate Composition and it's inclusion there. Thoughts on posting it even though the single one is not available any longer?
El Ronza wrote:
How many reviews have you had so far? Does this incentive seem to be drawing them in? :P

Honestly, I can't even keep track of all of them. We're up to either two or three sprees, and, at this rate, we'll cap out at ten sprees before the hardcover is ready to go.

Sethvir wrote:
Well, I just went looking to post a review of The Maestro Base class and discovered that it had been removed apparently since the advent of the Ultimate Composition and it's inclusion there. Thoughts on posting it even though the single one is not available any longer?

Hold up. Is it even possible to access, say, Endzeitgeist's review of the Maestro anymore? Where would it go?

My review of the Maestro is still up on my site, yes. ^^ I'm not sure whether it's still on Nerdtrek and GMS magazine.

If all else fails, slap it on U. Composition and disclaimer that it's for the old version.

My reviewing was delayed somewhat due to my work schedule--I hope I'm not too late!
I uploaded my reviews to Subterranean Races: The Puddlings and Story Mechanics: Incremental Antimagic to both OBS and Paizo (I know the incremental antimagic doesn't count due to being free, but I bought it before it was free so I reviewed it anyways). I reviewed seven of the "Ooh, Shiny!" series on OBS...I don't see them on Paizo.

I reviewed AotDW: Critical Hit-Exchanging Weapon Special Abilities and AotDW: +0 Weapon Modifiers on Paizo. On OBS, I had purchased both through the holiday GM tools bundle, and OBS does not recognize that as me having purchased the individual products. From what I can tell, OBS has "bundles" which do count as buying the individual products (e.g., it lets me review the Ooh, Shiny supplements that I got via bundle), but the GM Tools bundle is just counted as one product with several PDFs. I have no idea if you can alter that.

About my two-value rating scale

Spoiler:

In an earlier thread, I wrote:

I firmly believe that it is impossible to compare the value of an RPG book in the short term from its value in the long term. In the short term, you want easy-to-learn mechanics that you can fit into a wide range of campaigns without much fuss. In the long term, you want something that can continue to provide enjoyment and aid to your campaigns for years to come. Ideally, a great long-term RPG book is still useful more than a decade after you get it (whether any Pathfinder books meet that standard is speculative for now, of course.)

Obviously, certain types of products lend themselves to one or the other. An adventure is expected to be better in the short term than in the long term. An interjection games-style class subsystem or a campaign system like mythic adventures has little immediate use, as you have to learn the system first, and then it takes time to put into a campaign.

However, some things are useful in both. An adventure can provide a setting or NPCs which are useful for the rest of the campaign, which could last years after finishing the adventure. A monster can make an exciting encounter in the short-term, but in the long term, it can provide abilities which you can add to monsters you create, or it can be combined with templates and terrain for an endless variety of encounters. The monster's lore can even provide the basis for an entire permanent society in your campaign world.

In each review, I will include a separate Long Term Rating and Short Term Rating. The number of stars entered into the store's interface is the long term rating, rounded off, not an 'overall' rating. I will not leave any 'overall' rating, as that, I believe, cannot be done fairly. I do think the long term rating is more important, since it will affect your campaigns for longer. Ideally, a great long-term RPG book is still useful more than a decade after you get it (obviously, though, whether a Pathfinder RPG product meets that standard is speculative, at least until 2019:D ). However, the short term rating still matters, and I think it should be kept separate from the long term rating.

Also, due to the inconveniences of my current living situation, any physical books will be more a burden than an asset, so I do not actually want a hardcover of SM. If I 'win', I ask that you send the proof-hardcover copy to someone else:)
I'd still be happy to get an OBS shopping spree or two, though:)

What ended up happening with these?
Sovereign Court

Thread Necromancy! Don't get fooled!

Huh, I apparently misread the OP.

Quote:
All reviews of IG products reviewed from April 1st to the day hardcover copies of Strange Magic are available will enter the reviewer into a raffle

As I don't buy physical RPG books anymore, I wasn't thinking about the distinction between softcover and hardcover. I just assumed the contest had ended, since a print version of Strange Magic is for sale on OBS. As it turns out, though, only the softcover version is on OBS, meaning the raffle is still open.

Hey there, Ben!

I have a print hardcover en route now, but, since some important defects were just found, I'm going to be ordering another. If the book showed up tomorrow, it'd still be two weeks minimum, but we're on the home stretch!

That said, what Ben has done here is a really nice idea. Make it easy on me and tell me how many reviews you did. It's been awhile!
Interjection Games wrote:
That said, what Ben has done here is a really nice idea. Make it easy on me and tell me how many reviews you did. It's been awhile!

It looks like I wrote 10 reviews, not counting Incremental Antimagic (which I originally bought before you made it free):

Subterranean Races: The Puddlings (reviewed on both OBS and Paizo)
AotDW: Critical Hit-Exchanging Weapon Special Abilities (reviewed only on Paizo)
AotDW: +0 Weapon Modifiers (reviewed only on Paizo)

and seven of the Ooh, Shiny!, reviewed only on OBS:
--20 Unique Armors, Shields, and Helmets
--Entropic Equipment
--Bardic Instrumagic
--20 More Unique Weapons
--Long Arm of the Elf
--The Clothes Make the Man
--20 Unique Weapons

As I said earlier, though, I don't actually want a print copy of anything, as non-digital books have become more of an inconvenience due to my living circumstances.

Alrighty, chaps, I have a GORGEOUS hardcover copy of Strange Magic that needs a home. Now how the heck do I organize this raffle from all this ancient raw data...

Ask people still interested to resubmit their application by a certain date?

(I'm happy with my softcover, so I'm good. Speaking of, I should review that soon...)

A good plan. List your reviews here, please, lest this have to wait for when I can justify time spent on it.

Copying from my previous post:

Subterranean Races: The Puddlings (reviewed on both OBS and Paizo)
AotDW: Critical Hit-Exchanging Weapon Special Abilities (reviewed only on Paizo)
AotDW: +0 Weapon Modifiers (reviewed only on Paizo)

and seven of the Ooh, Shiny!, reviewed only on OBS:
--20 Unique Armors, Shields, and Helmets
--Entropic Equipment
--Bardic Instrumagic
--20 More Unique Weapons
--Long Arm of the Elf
--The Clothes Make the Man
--20 Unique Weapons

I want the OBS "shopping sprees", but not the physical book, so if I win, give it to someone else:)

Right, I got your data, but if the rest isn't forthcoming, this'll have to wait for the next time I have half a day of motivated time that isn't motivated by the need to stay indoors.

I reviewed the base Tinker before life got in the way. So that's it for me.
The Ragi wrote:
Onmyoji, Tinker, Herbalist, Tinkering 201 and Innovator

I wonder how much the shipping overseas would cost me...

The Ragi wrote:
The Ragi wrote:
Onmyoji, Tinker, Herbalist, Tinkering 201 and Innovator
I wonder how much the shipping overseas would cost me...

I can do the math if you win :)

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