Remember Akashic Mysteries? It’s back! In card form!
Introduction
James Ray tackles a different type of product: Veil Cards. Instead of lots of new options, these cards include all the info of a veil. Are they worth it? Let’s check’em!
What’s inside?: 31 pages that include 125 cards, that strangely enough include the legal stuff in card form and that takes 8 cards, so we are left with a full 117 veil cards. Since this is not really a book, it come is 3 format. PDF for 6 bucks, physical cards for 20.50 bucks, and both for 22.50 bucks. This review tackles the PDF one:
The cards themselves take up the majority of the product. They includes all the 77 original veils from Akashic Mysteries. They are not just copy-paste though, since some of them have been edited with clarified information, and they also include in an elegant black bar if they belong to a “veil set”, which is important since some feats and class features deal with sets. The cards are bordered with an ochre-yellow frame, and the back features an adventuring damsel that kind of looks like a cleric. She is also on the cover of the PDF.
Of Note: Having made my own Tome of Battle cards back in the day, and also some cards for another book, I appreciate the handiness of such a product.
Anything wrong?: I know that this is mainly a card deck, but the legal info in card form? Why not a paper insert? But I have no idea how they make these cards, so that is passable (although I bet it would be cheaper as a paper insert) Also, some of the information of the product can only be found in the website! I find this inconvenient, since if you gift or lend them to someone, they might not know the use of the veil set bar, for example. Also, the font is kind of small.
What I want: Another deck for the City of Seven Seraphs’ veils, and one for constellations. Maybe another for the many veil found under Azoth Games, Studio M, Moonhand Press, and other companies?
Do I recommend it?: If you are playing live and using Akashic Mysteries, I can wholeheartedly recommend it! Great product! I would rate it 4.5 stars for the PDF (rounded up for the affordable price), but can’t really comment on the physical product.