General info/discussion about Oathbound Eclipse
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10/16/2010 5:26:21 AM
Derek Holland
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I got it in the mail yesterday and read or scanned most of it.
Good
Color, small font, Todd has very much improved as an artist
Nice new races- humanoid chameleons, winged mice (the size of mice), deep fey, lunars (both now in PF) and bat/wolf humanoids that use drugs to learn the true nature of the universe
The 3 prestige races are much like the original. Vampires, lycanthropes (though called werran) and ancients. The last are any race that use goddust like Dune's spice and have telepathic and empathic abilities.
Rules for survival in the dark- vision, absense of sunlight and mental effects. I think they would work very well in any setting where people going into the deeps for extended periods. Sort of like Wildwood's hunting rules.
Nice selection of animals and plants (love the homing frogs), weird locations and peoples.
Bad
Some of the text is letters in tiny font.
Very dark and not just because of the vampire nation. And no, pun not intended. One of the PrCs is for slavers and has an ability "mind rape". Blech.
Naked men and women in the art. I am not a prude but this isn't tasteful art and is meant to be shocking rather than inspiring.
No stats for some of the most interesting NPCs listed. The dragon and super vampires (so old they don't look humanoid any longer) especially.
No adventure.
But the worst is the retconning. There are a couple sections that made me wonder what the authors were thinking of. I found only two, one minor and one that left me speechless for a few moments:
The core of the Forge is a maze to the prison of the Bound God (DOF page 6). Suddenly it is molten rock (OE page 9).
Seeds and natives have full access to gods from other planes and the ability to come and go from the Forge (seeds need to get their keys first but are then free) (DOF pages 113-114). Now the Forge is flypaper and never lets anyone go and cuts everyone off from the gods (OE page 108). It is still mind boggling.
Is it worth buying for an Oathbound fan, hell yes. Pathfinder fans, that depends on how much you want the survival rules and a fairly fleshed out setting.
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