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Summary: Book of Challenges -- a challenge to use it!
Review: The format of the book is less useful. I was expecting something closer to a Monster Manual but for traps, and I was disappointed. Each "challenge" is formatted like a mini-encounter rather than a single trap or puzzle explained. Some challenges are 2-3 pages long. I prefer a bit more quick-use format structure so I can just pull out the encounter and plop it into my adventure just like a monster from the Monster Manual. I prefer Traps & Treachery by Fantasy Flight Games which has that type of structure.
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Summary: Book of Challenges -- a challenge to use it!
Review: The format of the book is less useful. I was expecting something closer to a Monster Manual but for traps, and I was disappointed. Each "challenge" is formatted like a mini-encounter rather than a single trap or puzzle explained. Some challenges are 2-3 pages long. I prefer a bit more quick-use format structure so I can just pull out the encounter and plop it into my adventure just like a monster from the Monster Manual. I prefer Traps & Treachery by Fantasy Flight Games which has that type of structure.
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Summary: This book is a home run!
Review: They thought of everything. Not only are the encounters very clever, they are also quite detailed, and can be scaled for slightly lower or higher level parties.There are descriptions that can be read to the players, so that too much information isn't given away, and there are numerous sidebards describing related topics. Some puzzle encounters describe how to create similar puzzles, so that the DM can generate his own dastardly encounters. On the downside, the maps are only adequate, and nothing to write home about, and there is not much other 'flavor' art. Still, this is a really worthwhile purchase, and I'll be including some of these dastardly encounters in our next adventure!
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Summary: Not quite as billed...
Review: This book makes it sound like it's a primer for playing logic games with your players. And it's got those. But about half of the book is also how to make combat creative by putting the creatures on superior footing and giving them tactics to match. Even so, I'm still satisfied with my purchase.
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Summary: poor
Review: this book turned out to be nothing of what i expected. i expected it to be a book of traps and various kinds of challenges in it, to give ideas to DM's who need a little help from time to time (as we all do). instead, what i got was a book that has four examples of particular challenges for various level of characters. i thought this limited the use of the book tremendously, and hence has been the book that i least spent time reading and using.
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Summary: poor
Review: this book turned out to be nothing of what i expected. i expected it to be a book of traps and various kinds of challenges in it, to give ideas to DM's who need a little help from time to time (as we all do). instead, what i got was a book that has four examples of particular challenges for various level of characters. i thought this limited the use of the book tremendously, and hence has been the book that i least spent time reading and using.
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Summary: good one
Review: this is a really good book, especialy for dm's who want to give their player an encounter that is hard because of the situation. for example a party of 2 4th level PCs' have trouple with a bugbear and 3 goblins only because of there positioning. it gives advise and encounters dealing with complicated puzzles, unexpected traps and page flipp'n challanges.
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Summary: It could be better
Review: While the book presents some interesting scenarios, most of it is rehashed information you can get from a book of logic puzzles or find in the AD&D 2nd edition DM's blue books (namely the Villian's handbook and Creative Campaigning) or even check out the Crypt of Lyranzad the Mad. If you want a bunch of one-shot encounters or traps, this book is fine, otherwise you can get as good ideas by buying a book of logic puzzles or riddles and adapting them as encounters.
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