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Creature Codex 3 – It came from the Silver Screen!

Nov 062011

This pdf from Demiurge Press is 11 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC and 1 page SRD, leaving 8 pages for the new monsters.

I’ve been reviewing a lot of monster books recently and subsequently admit to a certain kind of fatigue with them. I’m looking for monsters that are iconic, that have signature abilities, that I want to use. Demiurge Press have until now presented us with rather well-crafted beasties and interesting concepts, thus I was astonished when I read about “It came from the Silver Screen”. Having just recently reviewed Purple Duck Games’ “Horrors of the GOW”, I was all in the mood for some nice, nostalgic creature-feature goodness. So, do the creatures herein hold up to their iconicity on the screen?

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Road to Revolution I–The Skullcrackers

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Jul 062011

58659[1] By Thilo Graf

This pdf is from 0one Games is 43 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of advertisements, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 35 pages of adventure, so let’s check it out!

Layout adheres to the clear and concise 0one-games-two-column-standard, the pdf is extensively bookmarked and comes with free colour-versions of the hand-outs (and broadsides that are put up throughout the city) in a separate pdf and also has its own conversion notes to make the adventure compatible with PFRPG. Editing is good – I only noticed one glitch.

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The Great City – A Pound of Flesh

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May 312011

By Thilo Graf

This adventure from 0one Games for levels 1-3 is 58 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside the front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 2 pages of advertisements, 1 page back cover, leaving 50 pages for the plots afoot to unfold, so let’s check it out!

The first thing you’ll notice is that the adventure is extensively bookmarked, layout is clear and printer-friendly b/w.

That’s as far as I can go without going into details. This being an adventure review, SPOILERS will now continue to abound – potential players, please jump to the conclusion!

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The Great City Campaign Setting

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May 182011

By Thilo Graf

This campaign setting/city source book from 0one Games is 162 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside front cover, 1 paged editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement, 1 page blank inside back cover and 1 page back cover, leaving a whopping 154 pages of content for us to lose ourselves in, so let’s check it out!

Due to the size of this book, I’ll not comment on each and every nook and cranny of the city as detailed in this pdf, but rather give you an overview, some examples and generally tell you which components caught my fancy.

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