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Publisher's Choice - Colin C. Throm (Baba Yaga)
Another one I bought a while back but I have not had the chance to use this one yet.
Though looking at it now I think I have the perfect place for it now.
I mean really, who wouldn't to have Baba Yaga in an adventure or book?
Well, I have a lot of favorite times for games. But I have to say in general.
Yes.
I know total cop-out answer.
I love my D&D and fantasy set in the past. I am a sucker for anything in the Victorian era and at last count, I think I own every Victorian RPG out. Though I am looking forward to getting my BlackStar game going again.
So I guess yes. All the Above.
I am sure I have used this one somewhere, but I can't recall where. It is a great piece. She could work well as a witch, warlock, shaman, druid or about anything really.
I remember seeing this one and grabbing it right away.
Other great pieces include:
Perfect game? Hmm.
If you mean the perfect RPG then I have to say NIGHT SHIFT, but that is kind of a cheat for me really since it was designed out of the box to be my perfect game.
For a perfect game, I have run? Hmm. Either my "Dragonslayers" game I ran with my kids some years ago. "The Dragon and The Phoenix" Buffy game that eventually would influence my writing on Ghosts of Albion. I also love my current "War of the Witch Queens."
Maybe I should re-tool The Dragon and The Phoenix or Season of the Witch for NIGHT SHIFT!
I have to admit I am rather fond of a green-skinned witch. I grabbed this one with plans of using it in one of my witch books.
It is very witch-y too. Pointy hat, broom, cat. Yup. Everything is there.
But in any case, the cover is rather cool.
For this review, I am considering the PDF version of this book from DriveThruRPG. I did have the hardcover of this book but I downsized my 3.x collection a few years back.
PDF. Color cover and interior art. 244 pages.
This book is the first monster supplement for the new "updated" 3.5 version of the D&D rules. Honestly, I used 3.0 and 3.5 interchangeably, so for me, it was another monster book.
This one gives us roughly 170+ new monsters. We get some new demons, and more old favorites from the Yugoloths return (one of the reasons why I wanted this one). This book gives us the Warforged outside of their origin world of Eberron. There is a creature called a "Witchknife" that caught my attention as well as a "wood woad" but both of them disappointed me. I rather liked the new undead in the Bone Claw, Bone Drinker, Charnel Hounds, and Necronaut. The Eldritch Giant is also rather cool.
Some of these monsters I did not meet in this book first. Many I ended up getting in packages of mini from Wizards of the Coast before I even knew what they were. The Chraal and Blackscale Lizardfolk are two perfect examples. I thought the Chraal was a sort of demon at first. I did not play the minis game, so I rarely looked at the cards in detail.
For me, the monsters I liked made it worth the price to buy the book. But it was not enough to have me keep it when I downsized my 3.x collection.
The art is still all quite good and what I expect from WotC at this stage.
Interesting question.
Normally I prefer to game with people I know. Conventions are an obvious exception. So there isn't really anyone out there that I would like to have as a Game Master.
I would however like to play a game with Matt Mercer of Critical Role. He just looks like he runs a fun game. Yeah, that might make me a heretic among the old-school crowd, but I stopped caring about that years ago.
