Recession Reviews:
Wrath of the Righteous 2
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.
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Book 2 Sword of
Valor :
Written by: Neil
Spicer
Page count: 98
counting the inside covers
Throw Away pages:
17 (covers, forward, advertisements, and a story not directly useful to the
adventure)
Golden Pages: 47
(reusable npcs, spells, reusable maps, monsters, new items, relics, demon graft
system)
Cover price:
$22.99
Price per page:
$0.23
Modified price per
page: $0.18 = Cover price/pages + golden pages – throw away pages= modified
price per page
Crunch to Fluff
Ratio: 5.76 to 1
Our Rating out of 10:
9 very reusable
Description (minor
spoilers): I’m still reluctant to adopt the mythic system, but this AP is
so full of awesome last week I dove in to the first book and left off at
Neatholm. In this installment you’re PCs will be leading an army of 100
paladins through a series of challenges that will test your Pc’s skills as
individuals and as commanders.
The mission is to take an artifact that will also aid you in
regaining a lost city in the world wound. When I read this and when I GM this,
I will channel Heart of Darkness it has a little of that vibe.
This is the first time I’ve seen the mass combat rules of
Kingmaker back in action and Neil Spicer shows a mastery of them. I fully
expect that half the fun is figuring out when your PCs need to foray ahead and
when they need the full might of their army. There’s a good mix on both the
encounters and the rewards. Its clear that you will be given a downtime period to
perhaps revive the kingdom building rules, I fervently hope I’m right and that
this goes beyond just one installment.
The monsters presented are quite useful, the items are awesome
including magical medals which I love, and I’ll be using the crunchable demon
grafting article on tons of baddies (and expanding it as a game designer.) If
you never run this AP but like throwing demons, or run Kingmaker and want some
new prestatted armies there’s allot to poach from this installment.
This AP had a tremendous start, this was a vital hand off
and Neil Spicer rose to the occasion and delivered like a champ. Keep up the
good work Paizo.
