This is gonna hurt!
Barbarian Champion Fighter Ranger
Your critical blow rip deep. When you score a critical hit, the target gains the painful 1 condition, or increases its painful condition by 1.
Product– Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-06: Brastlewark at War Part 1: The Gnome Defection
System- Pathfinder 2nd ed
Producer– Paizo
Price– $8.99 here https://store.paizo.com/pathfinder-society-scenario-7-06/
TL; DR-Go save gnomes! 95%
Basics– Let’s explore…. no wait, OFF TO SAVE THE GNOMES! This adventure takes place on the border of Cheliax, and your job is to enter, get the gnomes, and get out! Can you do it without opening up the mouth of hell itself?
Mechanics or Crunch– This adventure has some solid skill challenges, combat, and social, but there isn’t much exploration for an outdoor adventure. The skill challenges are fun and are a fun part of running in the woods. The social is another solid addition that helps the players learn about the world around them. Combat is good, but maybe a bit too easy. The nature navigation is pretty low key here. I’d almost like a map and a bit of a hex crawl for outdoor fun in this one. But, what’s here is a solid. 4.5/5
Theme or Fluff– The adventure moves the world forward in fun ways. The story of the war with Cheliax gets an interesting point of view as gnomes take center stage. Halflings and slavery are a common enough staple of Cheliax adventures, but I haven’t seen as much about the gnomes. If the players want to dig in, they can get some insights and have a fun time along side killing a bunch of hellknights and woodland monsters. Solid fun! 5/5
Execution– This adventure is a bit of a mix of the old adventure style and the new. There are pictures in the back of most of the monsters and pictures in the back giving their stats. Most of the time. Some monsters get the treatment of “see another book”. That’s annoying. Print it here and just be done with it. Don’t make GMs hunt down other things online. But the rest reads fast and is easy to understand. It’s good, but bring more into the book itself. 4.75/5
Summary– This is a fun, light adventure. You get to be good guys with no real moral quandaries aside from deciding what happens to something at the end. And even that’s not a major bad choice. Go save those gnomes, and have a blast doing it. 95 %
Keep things going!
Bard Cleric Concentrate Druid Oracle Sorcerer Witch Wizard
Frequency three times per day
You sustain a single spell as a free action.
Thoughts?
Hide in plain sight
Barathu Manipulate
Frequency once per day
You temporarily merge your body with that of an adjacent willing creature, hiding within the target where they will shield you from harm. This transformation lasts for 10 minutes. You can dismiss this effect. When you do, you emerge in a space adjacent to the target you merged with. While combined, you and your target each take your own turns as normal, except you can not take any action that requires you to physically act on your own. Additionally, you and your target gain the following benefits.
Thoughts?
OBEY!
Magical Wand
Usage held in 1 hand; Bulk L
A thigh bone carved into a wand. When Activated, the wand glows with a fell black light and smells like freshly turned earth.
Activate free action; Frequency once per day, plus overcharge; Effect You gain the ability as a free action to sustain summon undead.
Craft Requirements Supply a casting of summon undead of the appropriate rank.
Price 500 gp
Bulk L
Price 10,000 gp
Bulk L
You can sustain as a single free action two separate castings of summon undead.
I don’t know…
Mmmmm….. Your pure indecisiveness helps when it comes to others trying to hurt you. When you take mental damage or have to attempt a will save, you gain hit points equal to half your level.
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Thoughts?
HA! Now we are FRIENDS!
General Skill
Prerequisites expert in Intimidation
Sometimes you can yell someone into friendship. When you succeed at an intimidation check, the target becomes friendly if you succeed on a second demoralize check . The target remains friendly until you take a hostile action against the target or its ally’s
Thoughts?
Product– Pumpkin Spice Quickstart
System- Pumpkin Spice
Producer– Acheron Games
Price– free here https://www.acheron.it/en/pumpkin-spice-a-magically-cozy-rpg-info/
TL; DR– Want to run a coffee shop in a wholesome Shadowrun world? 100%
Basics– It will be ok. Pumpkin Spice isn’t the normal RPG I play. The world is not on fire. The galaxy is at peace, and the only thing that really needs doing is prepping tomorrow’s donuts. Maybe a coffee machine is on the fritz, but you can fix that. Pumpkin Spice is about working at a magic coffee shop that preserves the magic font at its center. It’s not high stakes action. It’s not about stress. It’s Animal Crossing meets Shadowrun. There is magic. There is a mystery, and there is a light noon rush. Let’s break it down.
Base mechanics- This is a d6 system, but not how you think. Each face of the d6 is a different type of magic ranging from authority to imagination. When an action requires it, you roll dice equal to the type of magic you want, and hope to get that result. If you get one of those you hope for, like needing authority, a 1 on a d6, to deal with an angry customer, you hope to get at least one 1. You get it, you get what you want. You don’t, it might work out, but it’s less favorable.
Magic types and abilities- when you make a check, you have a trait you are tied to. If you roll the trait you are tied to, you can spend one magic to change it to any result. You can also work in reverse. Change any face into one you are tied to. But, there is only so much magic in the shop. The shop has 10 magic. When it gets to zero, it might dry up! As your goal is to preserve the magic of the shop, that’s bad!
Ok, let’s discuss it.
Mechanics or Crunch– This is not crunch heavy. It’s very much a simple RPG dealing with small problems. The mechanic of just rolling a few dice and seeing what happens is an interesting one. Not bad, but not the monster of crunch that I’ve seen. And that’s ok. It fits with the laid back nature of the game. This isn’t fighting devils in the off hours of Charmed. This is Animal Crossing, and that’s fun for a laid back day. 5/5
Theme or Fluff– Again, it’s a simple day. This isn’t life ending. The worst thing happening is maybe the souffle doesn’t rise. Maybe it’s still edible, but just not as pretty. That’s the scale here. If you need to relax and not save the world today, and just craft some puff pastry and give them out to friends, then this is the game to play. 5/5
Execution– This is a quickstart, so I can’t comment on the whole book. But, what’s here is well done. It’s laid back. There are simple descriptions, simple symbols, and a day of just relaxing in a book. The book reads easily and is pretty to look at. It’s intriguing for a quickstart, so im looking forward to the full book. 5/5
Summary– This isn’t my typical choice for an RPG, but that doesn’t mean I won’t play or join the crowdfunding. It’s VERY different from my usual games of sadness and monsters. But, that’s not bad. This seems cozy, and that’s the goal. You and your friends run a coffee shop where you save magic in a fantasy world with all the fantasy tropes. It really is Animal Crossing mixed with Shadowrun. 100%
You can’t hurt me if I don’t know either!
Frequency once per hour
Trigger You must attempt a will save or are dealt mental damage
You can’t even attempt predict your own thoughts. When you attempt a will save or a save against mental damage, you can roll twice and take the better roll.
Thoughts?
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