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Critter Cache 5: Daemons
Publisher: Goodman Games
by Brandon B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/02/2013 13:55:44

Wonderfully imaginative and beautifully illustrated, this makes a fine addition to my home campaign. Please keep these coming, they are so useful!



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Critter Cache 5: Daemons
Publisher: Goodman Games
by Michael E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/11/2009 07:56:57

This is a really great product and puts Daemons back in the cosmology of D&D 4e instead of just using a few examples of them as "demons". The additional information added regarding their realm (The Pit of Tartarus) and their history makes them fit nicely back in the multiverse without detracting anything from established "official" releases. For more recommendations, I have a more detailed review on my blogsite at http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/?p=609

Great product and well worth looking into!



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Critter Cache 5: Daemons
Publisher: Goodman Games
by Peter I. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 05/29/2009 09:59:12

Goodman Games and Blackdirge Publishing have done it again with Critter Cache V - Daemons. This 35 page pdf monster book for the 4e GSL system really sets the bar for quality, value, and gaming goodness. The fifth in the Critter Cache series, this product presents numerous 4e GSL daemon monsters, from the terrifying Typhon to the lesser daemons and soul larva that inhabit the Pit of Tartarus. The combination of good monster design and creation with top quality presentation and background story make this product an excellent choice for any monster lover.

Critter Cache V - Daemons comes as a single pdf file. The presentation and design is excellent, and the author, Aeryn 'Blackdirge' Rudel, and artists, Hunter McFalls and Erik Nowak, combine together efficiently to create a visually pleasing pdf with great writing, art, design and layout. The product includes a stunning cover, full bookmarks, and other useful features such as a table of monsters by level and challenge. The overall product carries a fairly Greek theme, using names and concepts from legend, along with other Greek-like terms for the various monsters like Myrmidon and Hoplite. Overall, a splendidly presented pdf - something that'll be difficult to beat.

This product presents a comprehensive background and overview of the daemons of the Pit of Tartarus. Daemons are mercenary creatures that serve demon and devil alike, and create a kind of middle ground between the two fiendish entities. A complete history of the daemon is given, as well as background details on the nature of the Pit of Tartarus. In addition, full details are given on the life, motivations and society of the variety of daemons that inhabit the pit. Following this imaginative and inspiring background information, the pdf presents mechanical statistics for a whole slew of minor and major daemons alike. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the background of the daemons, though perhaps it would've been better to separate the background from the Greek mythodology and naming.

The daemons in this product range from level 3 all the way up to level 34, where the daemon Lord Typhon stands as a powerful and destructive lord of the Pit of Tartarus. Along with level, there are a whole variety of different roles for the creatures, with a fairly even distribution of strikers, controllers, soldiers and the like. While I've never been a fan of the nature and direction of monster powers in the 4e GSL, this product does actually come up with some unique combinations that break away from the mould of typical 4e GSL monster powers. I hope that more and more publishers will realise the freedoms that the 4e GSL gives in creating monsters and not just go with the strict 'some attack vs some defence doing some type of damage and inflicting some movement or some condition'. The creatures here will really challenge your PCs, and the content of this product can easily be used to construct an entire campaign. In a way, I'm kind of surprised that the product doesn't contain more ideas along those lines, as it coherently ties all these creatures together.

Critter Cache V - Daemons is a splendid pdf, and pretty much everything you could ask for in a monster pdf, except of course, for even more monsters! Coupled with good descriptive writing and fantastic art, this is a top quality pdf and excellent value with 23 immenintly usable creatures for any fantasy GSL campaign. I like the coherent way in which the content was approached and designed, and indeed how the society and hierarchy of the creatures was portrayed in the product. The background details were vivid and very welcome, creating an impressive culture and ecology to work with. Great pdf!



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