Mechanicly, the monsters in this book are very well done and do expand the roster of undead creatures of the forbidden lands. While I do understand this is a small project and command the designer for this book there are many gripes i have with it. My main one lies with the new profession: The Slayer. Its generally seen as a bad idea to make a class solely about killing one very specific kind of creature and the The Slayer is exactly that. Of the 9 abilities you could get from his talents only 2 do not mention the undead to be used and they arent on the same talent tree. This is horrible horrible design since it means unless you are DMing an undead-heavy game, the one playing the Slayer will be stuck with a thumb up there feeling useless and dejected and only feeling badass once undead are concerned. Or it could lead to toxicity as players blindly follow the slayer as he ignores every adventure site not crawling with the dead. While this could make for an interesting game I do believe that it leans waaay too hard into killing undead and nothing else. With a name like that I would have hoped to atleast see one talent tree focused on the slaying of monsters in general instead. Melee fighters have the advantage agaisnt normal enemies if using the combat cards so it would be interesting to have a profession which instead has advantage agaisnt monsters in general. Even Van Helsing dealt with all kind of crazy crap and not just vampires (atleast in the shlocky movie i like and the videogames) and rogues of Forbidden Lands are no different. The rest of my issues come with what the book looks like. The old timey page effect of the background is indeed quite nice however it makes printing this book a living hell wether thats in color or black and white as that much ink on a page is gonna make the paper curl like hell. I do also think the book is waaaay bigger than need be. The core book manages to put all the information on a monster on a single page while here one entire page is dedicated to a big picture of the monster (very nice art btw) and the blurb with the text sometimes going in weird places as the image seemed to have displaced the text on a few of them. I think a compact version with the image, blurb and stats on a single page is entirely doable and it would also make it much less demanding to print which i think is an important consideration.

If the design of the Slayer becomes less parasitic and the book gets a makeover or atleast a second version, i could easily rate this 5 stars and as such from one game designer to the other, i wish good luck.