Times are hard and
while a gaming book beats any trip to the theatre, our loved ones don’t always
see it that way. When you can spare the money what products deserve your hard
earned gaming dollars? Who balances enough crunch with the fluff to allow the
frugal GM to recycle, after all the best games are the ones you can play over
and over again without losing interest.
Any who wish to review
something in this format should email me a request at theflyingpincushion@gmail.com
Open Gaming
Monthly Issue 5 :
Written by: Various Authors
Page count: 99
counting the cover
Throw Away pages:
24 (covers, forward, advertisements, recipe, and fiction not directly useful
att he gaming table)
Golden Pages: 71
(reusable npcs, spells, character paths, magic items, monsters, traits, flaws,
and solid articles)
Cover price: $2.99
+ OGM 2 included for free!
Price per page:
$0.03
Modified price per
page: $0.02 = Cover price/pages + golden pages – throw away pages= modified
price per page, not factoring in OGM#2 gift w/ purchase
Crunch to Fluff
Ratio: 4.13 to 1
Our Rating out of 10:
9.5 extremely reusable and useful
Description (minor
spoilers): What makes OGM shine aside from the value of its price per page
is that there’s always going to be something useful. You might not agree with
all the authors or even use 90% of it but you will always get something for
your money and usually an entertaining read to boot. Highlights of this issue
were the expansions on traits and drawbacks (which really needed the help), the
guide to the minotaur, the dragon cemetery, the beastiary, and the magic items.
It is notable that OGM sticks in ads to fill half pages, the
editors seem to miss some grammar mistakes, and the art quality ranges from
amazing to distractingly bad. Overall you are getting a very good deal so no
complaints from me!
***It is notable that I am a contributer to this publication, the review however focuses on the content that I did not contribute. I of course think my article giving GM advice on Sidekicks is amazing but that did not factor into this rating we are merely discussing value for your gaming dollar, aside from freebies this is the best deal in gaming.
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