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Product: Artifacts and Oddities Collection 1
Producer: Monte Cook Games
Price: ~$3
System: Numenera
TL;DR- Want some more random items for Numenera? Here you go? 100%
Basics: Need a bunch more powerful, random items and random, strange items for your Numenera game? Here you go? This book give you 50 artifacts, powerful items that may not deplete after use, and 50 oddities, not powerful items that may give much smaller effects like on the scale of a flashlight.
Theme: Again, there is a suppressing amount of story in this item book. Much like all other Numenera books, the authors add side notes in the margin that add to the Numenera world. Also, the items have great descriptions to help you visualize the objects in question. 5/5
Mechanics: This is basically a mechanics book since it's dedicated to items. What's more, this book has TWICE as many items as the last one with both artifacts and oddities. The items are all fresh and interesting, so its value for money in my opinion. And RANDOM TABLES! FOR BOTH ARIFACTS AND ODDITIES! That is amazing! Why is that not in more item books?! 5/5
Art: I've only started writing these reviews, but in this book the authors look like the listened to my comments. This book has fewer reuses of pictures and less random pictures. There is a semi-random welding mask, but I like the art here. Much better! 5/5
Execution: This book follows the Cypher collection 1 book and follows a similar layout and text arrangement. I loved it there, and I love it here. And for $3, you get 100 things. That's a good value. 5/5
Summary: Again, a simple, well done item book that add to the world of Numenera. You will only need one at the table, but it's something that any Numenera table needs one of at their table. 100%
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |