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Expendable Implements
Verlag: Dungeon Masters Guild
von Mark L. [Verifizierter Käufer]
Hinzugefügt am: 06/12/2020 16:21:49

Expendable Implements: Arrows, Bombs, Oils, Posions, & Potions by Sean vas Terra Format : PDF Acquired 10 June 2020 ; part of NAACP Legal Defense Fund [BUNDLE] for $9.99 Product released/last updated date 29 April 2020 Read 11 June 2020 ; re-read date 12 June 2020

Number of stars : 5

This is an excellent resource which expands on five kinds of expendable magic items.

Opens with a description of the five types of items included, followed by 5 random tables (d12); one for each type of "implement." The items follow, aphabetically by name within the five types, also arranged aphabetically. There are a couple breakout boxes covering: ammunition types (instead of simply arrows), thoughts on stacking oils and poisons, and poison dosage (currently mistakenly labeled as "potion dosage.").

These are all expendable items with most being single use. The oils can be used on one weapon or ten pieces of ammo. A few of the poisons can be used on three pieces of ammo. This work treats poisons as magical items, which is not a bad idea if one is looking for a simple way to handle them. There are, of course, official rules (see Ch. 8 of the DMG) and many other systems out there. The main thing is that it uses the magic item rarity system. If poisons as magic items is not up your alley then simply ignore that provision; nothing really changes.

I saw a fair number of effects across these items that I have not seen elsewhere. And while twelve items each might not be a huge number, I feel those included provide a great jumping off point to make your own. At $2.95 you may balk on the "low" amount of content included. Only you can decide if it is of value to you. This was one of the small handful of resources in the NAACP Legal Defense Fund [BUNDLE] that I was interested in and it did not disappoint.

Right now [as of 10 June 2020] it is a part of NAACP Legal Defense Fund [BUNDLE] bundle so it is very cheap, assuming you want something else from the bundle.

Preview : Over half of the content is available via the preview. That should be more than enough to decide if the style and content are for you.

Attribution : Author, cover art, interior art and InDesign template creator are all attributed.

TOC : no table of contents present. Content is only 8 pages so probably not necessary.

Formatting : Formatting is simple and very effective. I love that every page carries a version number and date!

Art : artwork is fairly minimal but also effective. Anything else would just make the product longer and larger (in file size) for no good reason.

Style : Consistently follows WotCstyle guidelines pretty closely.

Number and type of files included : one PDF

Issues for the author :

p5 Stacking Oils & Potions breakout : "ontop" should be two words, "on top."

Oil of Annihilation : shouldn't it slowly corrode wepaons that aren't magical or adamantine ala Black Fang poison? "hitpoints" [5 total uses, see also p 7 & 8] by DnD House Style Guide it is "hit points." Not a big deal either way but the document seems to adhere to official style otherwise.

p7 Breakout box "Potion Dosage" is only talking about poison; should it not be "Poison Dosage"? Line 3 of text in that box has "... players to beable to ...." Perhaps it is just the justification tool being used (since many words after a comma look like they have no space between them and the comma.). It is hard to tell in many cases if it is the justification or if the spaces are simply missing. A part of it may be the font choice, which is pretty readable otherwise, also.



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Thanks for the review! I'm glad that it caught your eye out of the NAACP bundle. There's always some minor typo that I miss when I'm doing the final formatting, I'll have to go back and fix "potion dosage" and stuff. I also have to mess with the indesign export settings sometimes to stop some fonts from being wonky. I write "ontop" and "hitpoints" that way on purpose, those are specific breaks from the standard grammar/styleguide that I make.
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