Matthew Sernett

This is an incredible book of templates to apply to monsters and other characters. I run a fey-oriented campaign that makes major use of the Seelie and Unseelie templates which do a great job of adapting faerie myth to D&D, and allow nearly any creature to become part of the fey courts.

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse templates are unique and include a discussion of many options for how to make use of them. Other templates allow you to infuse a creature with an element, make it a plant, or show more convert it into many of the undead types that weren't template-based. Very cool. show less

This book presents interesting magic system varients for D&D 3.5. Although there are sections on adapting these magic systems to an existing campaign, it would be best to select one (or more) of these systems to use as the sole magic system in a game.

These systems tend to make it harder to do magic in the game, which makes them good for low-magic campaigns.

An audio review of this book is available in Nuketown Radio Active #29: http://www.nuketown.com/node/1956

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