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Excellent work as always from The Forge, but you can see that for yourself in the preview document :)
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I don't understand why you are reading this review while contemplating if you should buy this product. Are you serious? Yes, buy this product!! Maciej Zagorski captures the esssence of stock art and provides excellent artwork to be used all over your project. So many times if I have a blank space and need to fill it up, I go to my folder of purchased art from The Forge Studios and see what goodies I have to choose from. I personally label this type of art--theme art--because it sets the tone and setting for the reader. Sure, you may move on because of the price..but check out the publisher preview...20 pieces of art in here for that price!!! Absolutely worth it. The art captures that 'Old School' feel. I highly recommend all of the Forge Studios art--it has made the layout phase for my projects a lot easier!
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Great map for an unbeatable price. Easily insertable into any fantasy campaign.
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this product offer lots of possibilities... I can manage it like I want and add lots of things of my imagination it's GREAT
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Usually I'm a huge fan of products from The Forge Studios. The other three books in the Useful Maps series have been great. The maps in this book are still good, but the layout of this book is very poor.The maps are now much smaller, with two per page, and often two of the maps on a page are not associated with each other. This makes for a layout that is far less consistent than previous volumes, and really lowers the usefulness of this volume. If the layout were the smae as previoous volumes, it would get a 5/5.
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The amount if inspiration this product evokes just by looking at the images is amazing! It begs to be fillied with dangers and challenges for your players with some kind of interesting story wrapped around it. The art is superb, the map is clean, and you as GM fill in the rest! A+ product!
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Nice presentation of an inn that can be dropped into any setting, but it needs a little more "meat" in terms of plot hooks and NPCs to be truly useful.
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A nicely made Dungeon entrance for use with any RPG Fantasy games. Easy to use and best of all was free.
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This is a beautiful map. As much as I appreciate the functionality of grids, I think it would ruin this aesthetic.
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Just enough to help get me started on a story for my group and saved me some time on map creation.
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I really like the "Secrets of the Reich" Series, even though the naming and formatting here is not really consistent.
If you are into well done plans this one is for you.
I intended to use these for "Achtung Cthulhu" but have been using them for other scenarios like "Star Wars", too.
The only thing that would make them better, would be the option to turn of the background and decorative stuff, so I as a game master can just print the plans without the smudges, fake paperclips and so on.
Sometime stuff like this is unnecessary for the campaign and some of us want to age or alter the plans ourselfs.
Lucky there is Photoshop, but just having the option would make it much less labour intensive.
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This collection contains eleven scifi themed b/w-drawings. The quality of the drawings allows usage as a front cover, as “water mark” style background picture as well as the page filler use the product title points to.
The scifi-skull that is prominently featured in the advertisement for the product is my favorite, but that might has something to do with me being found of “Warhammer 40k “ and “DarkHeresy”.
While the price is a little higher than those of similar products of The Forge Studious, the number of pictures “bundled” into this set justifies this.
I use artwork from the Forge Studios in both my non-profit projects and commercial products, and I have never been disappointed with what I have bought so far. The license agreement this pictures are sold under grants repeated use and enough freedom in altering the artwork, and the format they are provided in is easy to edit (with the right tools).
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Nice sketch and hand-drawn floorplans, although it would be nice to have a version of the floorplans that could be printed at figure scale.
The inn is easily usable as is, taking some of the descriptive text and making up whatever other details you like. But there's also a situation and background here if you want it. It's not complicated but it's something to work with depending on the interests of your PCs, and the names and personalities included will be a nice head start for that. That said, it could use some proofreading.
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Nice sketch and hand-drawn maps with plenty of detail. I would have also liked separate .png files of the maps for printing at different sizes. But maps and descriptions of inns are always useful and this is nicely done.
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Contains a neighborhood map and very nice sketches of 7 buildings, as well as one page of description of Bek's Alehouse and one page of maps of the Alehouse. Stats for Bek and the locks and security are D20 but the layout, maps, sketches, and descriptions are useful for any fantasy game that might visit a tavern... which is to say any fantasy game. It's an unusual tavern layout, too, only semi-enclosed and not the standard generic tavern. It's apparent that the descriptions of the other buildings (in the full paid product, not here) interlock so together they should seed some story ideas and encounters as well, although that doesn't reduce the utility of this piece on its own.
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