hard to convert to anything besides I suppose learning the entire system

A sorely needed and deserved update to the author's earlier work. If you want to run a futuristic pathfinder game, this is the book for material and inspiration. It has a bit of everything for 1st party adjacent purists, old-school 3rd party and current era 3rd party and 4th party content. I highly reccomend picking it up.

A lovingly crafted book. The only reason I can't give this a full 5/5 stars is that not abusing some facets of the high CR monsters can be challenging for DMs that may not be used to more meta-present aspects of this game's complexity. The art and effort that went into the book alone is worth the time and money.

The Bardess Library has been a great addition, as it always gives a little bit of everything from new monsters, spells and rules for existing classes. This issue was great as a new Elemental School of Wizardry (and a promise of it's opposing school coming). It's nice to new new Wizard Schools (Elemental, Thematic, of Sub-).... I am hoping for more myself (Sand School...hopefully). If you are looking for a lot of great stuff...please check the series out! Great addition to PF1 stuff

Honestly, usually not someone to usually leave a review, but this just left a bad taste in my mouth. The subclasses bounce between being just worse versions of WOTC classes (Strife and battle domain are worse versions of war cleric. and the Healing is basically a generic, slightly less powerful life cleric), or the same sub classes. Strife and Battle are just two different takes on the same concept and not even that far apart. Wanderer and Freedom Cleric are another example of being nearly the same. Ocean Cleric is somehow broken and underpowered. At level 6 you can survive only off of water. No need to eat more. But the 17th level capstone is one free casting of a 5th level spell? On a full caster?

I really, really wanted to like this. The cold domain Cleric has something to it, and so does the Freedom/Wandering cleric but the plague domain lacks a 6th level feature. Of the 11 non evil domains, six feel the same. And that is without even getting into the evil domains that trend to be ridiculously overpowered.

If you run your games with a lot of modification, this might be for you. I do not. So this definitely isn't for me. If you have all cleric party this might be for you then to spice them with its optional rules.

Although there appears to be a good start here, the publication is simply unfinished. The material is written in such a way as to imply other sections/materials should be referenced; however, those other sections do not exist. I was so hopeful, but what a letdown.

Wonderful sampling of divine topics, a couple items and feats filling in gaps that are shocking after 15+ years of PF1, 24 years of 3.5.

Nice to have more material for my martial classes. It introduces new weapons and feats which if approved by your DM add flavor to the game.

I was not overwhelmed by new archarchetypes, but it was free, I shall not complain.

Most of the book are amazing expansions, focused largely on familiars, for bringing more uniqueness to them in both a method of obtaining them (for example tying them more to character's heritage) and adding new possible abilities

I received this compendium of player options as part of the Legendary Games anniversary bundle and upon reading it I feel the need to warn against a purchase.

The subclasses are confusing to read, mixing in terms and rules wording from other games/editions, and misapprehending the rules of 5th edition (Spell level doesn't affect the difficulty of the saving throw in 5E! No divination effect can determine a creature's alignment, only its type). There's also a pervasive tendency to switch between using the name of the class and random pronouns in class features instead of the consistent use of 'you' to refer to the player character.

Some of the text appears to contradict itself, such as the Black Mage's 'Horrible and Flexible Magics' Feature: The first sentence allows the wizard to use Constitution instead of the normal Ability score for a saving throw, but the example given implies that they automatically use Constitution if it's higher (or becomes higher, such as when the wizard is affected by a Feeblemind spell).

The book also contains a number of feats, items, and backgrounds which I have not had time to peruse.

Has balance problems as almost all of legendary classes do, but overall its a solid and simply a pleasant product. Expands both familiar and patrons to become a true signature of a witch instead of simply existing.

Monsters seem great statblock-wise and the price is right, but the art in this Foundry module is unfortunately broken, so it doesn't display on any of the creatures. I rate their other content well but I can't in good conscience recommend people buy this one until the issue is fixed.

EDIT: The issue with the artwork has been fixed, so I'm happy to update my review to 5 stars!

So I bought this book as a fuel for my own spiritualist rework - for that purpose it was amazing. The idea of turning spiritualist into a talent class and giving it unique channel-like ability seamlessly blends class more into necromancer-wanabe. Reworked phantom progression makes him stand out when compared to eidolon and animal companion.

Problem comes if somebody wants to use this book as written as there are just too many both balance and editorial mistakes. Infinite money printer possession of items and some talents loosing too much due to following base spiritualist. Several things copy-pasted (which is a good thing as it reduces amount of rules confusion due to it being what is in base game, but...) multiple times, or with errors of other class, or giving things that dont work on spiritualist due to lack of said feature.

So yeah. Overall I am satisfied with a product but probably not in the intended way.

James' review has done a fine job of documenting the actual contents of this product, so I'll just add my own experiences using it.

I consider this a great addition to any campaign or setting heavily involving fey themes. The core material of 5e certainly touches on fey and forest themes, but lacks breadth and some of the core subclasses with fey connections are thematically shallow. These are very evocative. I especially like the Knight-Surgeon, which has a general Arthurian feel rather than fey/forest specifically, and the Black Woods patron for Warlocks is absolutely rife with plot hooks.

I do recommend picking this up. If you're just looking to expand your catalogue of player options, wait until a sale or bundle, but if you're specifically running a very fey themed game it's worth the price.

Now to hope there'll be a Roll20 compatible compilation of this and the other Fey offerings from Legendary Games!

Despite what the description says, there are no new options for the monk. All it is is a class review like you can find for free all over the internet.