Christina Stiles Presents Archive
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Christina Stiles Presents: Waysides – Rock Bottom
Posted on August 31, 2015 | No CommentsChristina Stiles Presents: Waysides – Rock Bottom This installment of Rogue Genius Games series depicting taverns clocks in at 14 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages of SRD, 1 page advertisement, leaving us with 9 pages of content, so let’s take a look… …or rather, let me go on a slight tangent: We all know the place, or at least, anyone who has lived in a town of a certain size does: There always is this one bar that, by any rights, should no longer exist. You always see the same failed existences shamble in and out of it and it exudes a palpable aura of desperation, sadness and tears. And if you’re like me, […] -
Mundane No More: Texts and Tomes III – Psionic Repositories
Posted on February 19, 2015 | No CommentsMundane No More: Texts and Tomes III – Psionic Repositories The third installment in Rich Howard’s Mundane No More-series clocks in at 11 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1.5 pages of SRD, 3 pages of advertisement, leaving us with 3.5 pages of content, so let’s take a look, shall we? After getting massive information on research, recipes and making dungeon guides in the superb first book, adding concise rules for special material in book 2 , now we tackle the psionic component – or don’t. For yes, this pdf has information on how to *not* use the repositories herein with psionics, so even those disliking psionics have something to enjoy. First of […] -
Mundane No More: Texts and Tomes II – The Lands Beyond
Posted on February 16, 2015 | No CommentsMundane No More: Texts and Tomes II – The Lands Beyond This expansion to Rich Howard’s Mundane No More-pdf on research rules and tomes clocks in at 9 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of advertisement, 1 page ARD, leaving us with 3 pages of content, so let’s take a look! The pdf kicks off with a minor errata of book 1 (which, in my opinion, has nothing to do in the pdf-age -why not simply update the original file?), but oh well. So what does the book contain – well, to cut a long story short, we receive 4 different sample tomes, including background stories etc. – which would be […] -
Mundane No More: Texts and Tomes
Posted on February 11, 2015 | No CommentsMundane No More: Texts and Tomes This pdf clocks in at 21 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page blank back cover, leaving us with 17 pages of content, so let’s take a look! I’m a bibliophile and utterly OCD when it comes to the topic – take away my reading material, and I start becoming grumpy – fast. I become slightly concerned whenever either my regular non-RPG-book-pile or my pdf-pile shrinks to below ten unread works. Hence it should come as no surprise that my game somehow reflects this – observers have jested that my game sports an inordinate amount of reading when compared to most PFRPG-games and this […] -
Minor Artifact: Book of Eight Restful Retreats
Posted on November 13, 2014 | No CommentsMinor Artifact: Book of Eight Restful Retreats This pdf clocks in at 10 pages, 1 page front cover, 1/2 a page editorial (including author bio – nice!), 1 page SRD, leaving us with 7 1/2 pages of content, so let’s take a look! If you’ve read the title, you’ll have an inkling of what this is about – a book that is an artifact holds images, rendered in lavish detail -these offer direct portals to luxurious retreats for the hounded adventurer in the guise of different demiplanes. The author should be commended here – the crunch of the artifact is rock-solid – from taking items from the retreats to smuggling persons and items, the rules of this tome are […] -
Gingerbread Golem Swarm
Posted on February 18, 2014 | No CommentsGingerbread Golem Swarm This pdf is 2 pages long – 1 page SRD/editorial, 1 page content – so what do we get? Essentially, we get Jeff Lee creating a Gingerbread Golem Swarm that clocks in at a nasty CR 7. Not only are these menaces immune to magic (and swarms that are immune to magic are a PAIN), they may vomit liquid gingerbread on victims, potentially encasing them in gingerbread and suffocating them – funny, yet also potentially very dark: Two thumbs up – also due to the proposed alternate rule with a weakness to bite attacks. Conclusion: One page, not much space to make editing mistakes (though I didn’t notice any here and time has shown that […] -
Flesh Golem Variants
Posted on February 4, 2014 | No CommentsFlesh Golem Variants The first pdf of Christina Stiles’ solo-venture into publishing presents concepts by the author-group “4 Horsemen” – consisting of Dan Dillon (Death), Gillian Fraser (War), Steven Helt (Famine) and Stephen Rowe (Pestilence). The pdf clocks in at 8 pages, with 1 page being taken up by editorial/SRD, so let’s take a look at those creatures: The first adversary herein is the CR 8 Crawling Horror – think “Human Centipede as a golem. Also rather disturbing – up to a point, sufficient damage via piercing or slashing damage may actually split the adversary, resulting in a battle versus two of their ilk. Paradoxically, this makes the smaller versions hit better (size reduction resulting in -1 less penalty […] -
Christina Stiles Presents: Cackle of the Gnolls
Posted on September 27, 2013 | No CommentsChristina Stiles Presents: Cackle of the Gnolls This pdf is 13 pages long, 2/3 of a page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, leaving us with 11 1/3 pages of content, so let’s take a look, shall we? We kick off this pdf with a short discussion on gnoll society as well as their racial attributes -which follow the ARG-entry at +2 Str, +2 Con, +1 natural armor and darkvision 60 ft and gnoll weapon familiarity. – and yes, in contrast to the ARG, we really get a glimpse at gnoll culture here as well as extensive information on race relations and the important age. height and weight-tables. We also get an array of 11 different alternate racial traits […] -
Christina Stiles Presents: Waysides – Didjer’s Crab House
Posted on August 13, 2013 | No CommentsChristina Stiles Presents: Waysides – Didjer’s Crab House This supplement is 20 pages long, 1 page front cover/foreword, 1 page SRD/editorial, leaving us with 18 pages of content, so let’s take a look! This being the first in the Waysides-series, it kicks off with an introduction on what to expect from the series – and Didjer’s tavern is just the first – coming with a nice map in b/w and with grid (and, unfortunately, the annoying numbers) as well as copious information on the seedy staff catering to scrupulous clientele. As a major plus, the wayside comes with a menu table – which I applaud. What I don’t consider as neat is that the description of the victuals unfortunately […]