82467[1]By Thilo Graf

This is 1 page front cover, 1 page paper stands of ghouls from Clerics of the Midwest.

Wow. My degree of nerdiness has officially reached a point, that surpasses even “has no life” and potentially devolves into absorbing the life of other people, only to come out with zero. Why? Because I’m typing this, but let me elaborate:

This pdf makes me reconsider my hobby, my life, everything – after having stared in the badly-made-cgi-faces that seem to come, quality-wise, straight from the age of Ultima 7′s ending sequence, nothing will ever be the same. One model has been given different colours for convenience’s sake, both male and female.

 

98152[1]By Thilo Graf

This installment of Jonathan Robert’s Fantastic Maps line comes as a 63-page pdf, one page front cover, 1 page how-to-use, leaving 61 pages of content, so let’s check it out!

The pdf kicks off with a one-page version of the map with a grid, to give you an overview. The ship comes with 8 ballistae as well as mostly semi-translucent masts, making placing PCs on the ship rather easy.

After that, we get a blown-up version of the map for use with miniatures, both in colour and in greyscale. Each of the blown-up version takes up 30 pages.

 

80907[1]By Thilo Graf

This installment of the L4L-line from Super Genius Games is 9 pages long, 2/3 of a page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, leaving 7 1/3 pages of content, so what cloaks and daggers do we get?

First, we get 10 new cloaks for the price-conscious adventurer, beginning with a selection of racial cloaks in the vein of the famous Elven cloaks – the Dwarven cloak lets you smite certain humanoids, while the Cloak of Gnomishkind can detach itself to help you escape just about every grapple once per day. The Haflingkind cloak lets your cloak move at 20 feet climbing speed twice per day while humankind’s cloak emphasizes the competitiveness of humans and the Orcish garment makes you more fearsome to your foes.

 

98183[1]By Thilo Graf

This installment of Jonathan Robert’s Fantastic Maps-line is 55 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page how-to-use.

As has become the tradition in the Fantastic Maps series, the pdf kicks off with a one-page version of the full-colour map with grids.

After that, we get 26 pages each for the blown-up versions of the map for use with miniatures. It should be noted that the pdfs come in both letter pack and A4-formats and that we get maptool-files for this map as well. Apart from that, the only additional piece we get is a high-res version of the dungeon level, for that’s what this essentially is – 4 rooms and some connecting corridors.

 

97530[1]By Thilo Graf

This installment of cartography-master Jonathan Robert’s Fantastic Maps brings us an amphitheatre. The basic pdf is 43 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page how to use, leaving 41 pages.

In the tradition of the series, we first get a one-page overview of the map, complete with grids and in full colour. The amphitheatre is 5 rows high, f3eatures a warrior’s statue (or petrified hero?), a well and what could be either an altar, a podium or even *gasp* a dread gazebo!

 

94504[1]By Thilo Graf

After offering us the tools to create a basic dungeon via paper minis and the epic tool-kit to create your very own fortress, Brian Bartlow’s and Jonathan Robert’s latest fold-n-go instalment is a smaller offering, namely (surprise) an altar.

Following the cool design idea, the assembly of the altar can be done entirely without glue – only the optional candelabras require some glue to assemble. The altar can easily be assembled in 4 steps, add one additional one if you want a folded cloth on it and 2 for the candelabra. The instalment comes with a pdf containing only the pieces and an additional one that also includes the assembly instructions that are, once again, illustrated, making sure that you know what to do.

It should be noted that you may change the color of the altar’s cloth via a simple click from red to purple or brown, if you’re so inclined. If you want some blood splattered on the altar or some scroll-cases on the cloth, that can also be easily arranged via a simple click.

The pdf also comes with a jpeg of the cover as well as a .studio-file for use with robo-cutters.

Conclusion:

Assembly is child’s play and support of different layers offers you the option to create different kinds of altars. I really like the scroll and blood-options, but I also have a very minor gripe: I would have loved to get a white altar-cloth with bloodstains or the option to add bloodstains to the cloth, not only the altar. That being said, for the very affordable and low price-point, this is still a very good buy. My final verdict will be 4.5 stars, rounded down to 4.

Endzeitgeist out.

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