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Shards of the Broken Sky
When the flying realm of Vantage plummets from the Overworld to earth, a long-kept secret is revealed: it was the control point for magical wards that kept a dozen ancient evils in check.
The disaster offers brave adventurers an opportunity for glory, plunder, and/or heroic sacrifice. Will you rescue Vantage's survivors? Restore its magical wards? Or loot everything that isn’t nailed down while staying one step ahead of the apocalypse?
Use Shards of the Broken Sky as an entire campaign in and around this fallen flying realm, a one-shot or mini-arc, or a source of new races, monsters, and magic items!
Shards of the Broken Sky includes:
- A full 13th Age campaign for characters level 1-7
- 19 dungeons and adventure locations
- 111 new monsters including thunder orc, dark druid, oozefolk champion, elite wizard, and pie mimic
- 14 new magic treasures including Shard of Frozen Lightning, Glowing Rune-Carved Pebble, and Crystal Blade
- Three new optional PC races: lava dwarf, oozefolk, and ophidian
The disaster offers brave adventurers an opportunity for glory, plunder, and/or heroic sacrifice. Will you rescue Vantage's survivors? Restore its magical wards? Or loot everything that isn’t nailed down while staying one step ahead of the apocalypse?
Use Shards of the Broken Sky as an entire campaign in and around this fallen flying realm, a one-shot or mini-arc, or a source of new races, monsters, and magic items!
Shards of the Broken Sky includes:
- A full 13th Age campaign for characters level 1-7
- 19 dungeons and adventure locations
- 111 new monsters including thunder orc, dark druid, oozefolk champion, elite wizard, and pie mimic
- 14 new magic treasures including Shard of Frozen Lightning, Glowing Rune-Carved Pebble, and Crystal Blade
- Three new optional PC races: lava dwarf, oozefolk, and ophidian
- GenresFantasy
226 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2019
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September 5, 2020
There wasn't much of a story to this campaign, which is really a shame. It's a cool overall idea, and I'm sure you could make a good campaign out of it, but there's so little details that the GM would be doing all the heavy lifting.
Even the content that's there doesn't really make much sense together, to the point that if you used dungeons/battles/concepts as written, you'd have to alter them and fill in a ton of backstory in order to have anything cohesive. And there are very few concepts that really spark the imagination, so even using it as a repository of dungeons, encounters, and enemies doesn't give you much to work with.
To be fair, my expectations were very high from Eyes of the Stone Thief, which is a stellar campaign that's twice as long and contains cool concepts, encounters, and enemies on almost every page. I realize not every game book is going to be GREAT, but I'd like them to be at least half-baked by the time I start working with them.
Even the content that's there doesn't really make much sense together, to the point that if you used dungeons/battles/concepts as written, you'd have to alter them and fill in a ton of backstory in order to have anything cohesive. And there are very few concepts that really spark the imagination, so even using it as a repository of dungeons, encounters, and enemies doesn't give you much to work with.
To be fair, my expectations were very high from Eyes of the Stone Thief, which is a stellar campaign that's twice as long and contains cool concepts, encounters, and enemies on almost every page. I realize not every game book is going to be GREAT, but I'd like them to be at least half-baked by the time I start working with them.
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