Faeries: D20 System

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Summary: This book gave me a crisis of conscience
Review: I originally bought this book as a gift for a friend. It almost didn't make it to her. Only a few pages into the book, I realized that I needed to have a copy of it for my very own. My dedication to my friend won out in the end and I'll be ordering my own copy shortly, but I'm counting the days until it arrives.

This is the first D20 supplement I've seen that is consistently useful in every area. Spells, prestige classes, races, feats, magic items, monsters, templates, the description of Faeryland itself, it's all good, meaty useful stuff. If it talks about a major player in the world of the fey, that player is given a stat sheet. If it talks about a magic item, that magic item's described.

The art is excellent, the editing is tight and the format of the book flows very well.

This book misses five stars for a few nitpicky reasons. First of all, it coul dbe a little thicker. Don't get me wrong, this is pretty much a must-buy book if you're going to have the fey take any kind of active role in a campaign, but a few more monsters, and a few more magic items would've added even more depth to this book.

Also, the book has some rather startling errors, most particularly the exlusion of the Mite Fighter feat which is a prerequisite for several feats and prestige classes. Some of the other, more minor error were fixed with errata on the publisher's site, but Mite Fighter exists in a different book entirely. Spells & Magic, from Bastion Press, in case you're interested.

Some of the templates don't seem to be properly balanced as far as how they adjust character level, particularly the high fey and shadow-born templates.

Again, these are minor quibbles and easily corrected. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Bastion Press does it again!
Review: Just 3 words for you:

Buy this book!

It has new races, Prc's, spells, feats and a good description of what it's like to be a fairie. The layout and art are above standard (as we are used to getting from Bastion Press :)).
So, I can only repeat myself:

Buy this book!

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Summary: Wonderful Source
Review: This book was very helpfull in creating a new area of the campaining world. The new races, feats, skill, ect.. where very creative. The best part of the book for me was the detailed list of locales in which the players may visit. Overall I thought this to be an exellent book for anyone wishing to add the fairy realm to their game.