I am sneaking this one in under the wire. It looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Last Sabbath - The Witches' RPG
Ok I love the look of this game and it would make for a great Session 0 for pretty much any sort of game I tend to play.
This one id funded but in it's last days, so get on this one while you can.
Like I mentioned on Day 8 it was the late 70s and early 80s and honestly, Dungeons & Dragons was everywhere it seemed. This was before the full Satanic Panic had hit my small town (that would be later) and it just seemed like something all the cool kids were doing.
Of course by the time I picked up D&D all the "cool kids" had moved on to "Call of Cthulhu." Yes I can still recall being told "oh. You are STILL playing D&D?" Yeah, here I am 40 years later...and still not one of the cool kids I guess.
Eh. No worries. My kids think I am cool.
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I have been informed that they don't think I am cool. Whatever. You all still like me.
I am working on adding more podcasts to listen to.
Greycast is a new one to me, introduced to me by Matt Fenn, a fellow Mystoerth fan.
They do deep dives into Greyhawk and early D&D topics.
Among my favorites are the ones on the Keep on the Borderlands, the Beginning in Greyhawk, and Greyhawk for Kids.
I am going to be on the Podcast on Monday talking about Mystoerth. Check it out!
Links
As always I will be following my rules for these reviews.
PDF. 9 pages. 1 cover, 1 title/contents page. Interestingly enough, no OGL.
The is largely a set of tables and various notes on brewing various items including potions, but nothing game-specific.
Given the randomness of the tables they work, but produce all sorts of strange results. Now sometimes this is great, but for a game like Pathfinder or d20 D&D there are very specific ingredients used. It would be good for an OSR-style game.
Since the material here is not really game-specific it would work for any sort of game really.
I could use this as a GM tool to get me started, but I tend to make potions that have very specific ingredients related to their effects.
The best use for me would be to use it to determine what any one particular witch has in her cupboards. Now that idea makes this product much more useful to me!
Hmm. These questions can sometimes be a little cringe. BUT I am going to take it at face value.
I rather like my Ordinary World setting for NIGHT SHIFT. The supernatural is real, but it largely wants to be left alone. I just kinda like the idea that vampires work the morgue night shifts, werewolves are postal carriers, and the scary old lady down the street really is a witch.
Who knows. It might be fun!
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As always I will be following my rules for these reviews.
Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells Compiled (3pp+PRD)
2 PDFs. $33.99. 186 pages (PF) and 544 pages (3PP).
Yes. 730 pages total. This compiled collection covers both spells from various Pathfinder products and the 3rd Party Pathfinder products. There is no fluff. Very little art. Here is how each book breaks down. There is a cover page, and OGL statement of Open Content page, a table of contents, and two pages on what this book is. For the Pathfinder book there is three pages of OGL. For the 3rd Party book there are seven pages for the OGL. There is a hyperlinked index for both and hyperlinked table of contents.
The rest is solid text of spells.
And by spells. I mean every single witch spell ever published by the date of this book. The 3rd Party book for example has nearly 30 pages of cantrips, 50 pages of 1st level spells, 60 2nd level spells and so on.
The spells are given an editorial clean-up so that they all look similar and can flow well.
What these books lack (and were never trying to cover) is all the fluff or explanatory pieces that might go with the background of a spell. For example "Air Bubble" mentions a firearm can be loaded within an Air Bubble, but makes no attempt to explain anything more. This is perfectly within the scope of this product.
The number of spells break down as follows:
Witch 3pp
Cantrips: 123
1st level: 200
2nd level: 251
3rd level: 221
4th level: 188
5th level: 163
6th level: 142
7th level: 131
8th level: 122
9th level: 109
Total 1,650
Witch Prd
Cantrips: 15
1st level: 83
2nd level: 107
3rd level: 88
4th level: 70
5th level: 51
6th level: 39
7th level: 40
8th level: 28
9th level: 22
Total 543
That's insane really.
He also has these per level and for every spell casting class in Pathfinder.
You might ask if you buy this does that get rid of the need to buy other Pathfinder spell books? I say no since there is nothing here but the spells. Other products often have the spells, explanatory notes, monsters, feats, and items that might go with them. These books are a fancy SRDs. Highly organized and very useful ones at that.
If you are like me this is a treasure trove.
When did I start Game Mastering? Right away to be honest.
It would have been with the D&D Basic Set edited by Tom Moldvay. I am sure I ran my younger brother and sister through some adventures. I know I had made my own dungeons then and still have a couple of the maps. One, in particular, had a red dragon in one room and a green dragon in another. No idea how they got through the doors.
I would like to think I got better.
