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Malar: The Beastlord Compendium
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Markus N. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/26/2022 10:36:38

An excellent lore resource for players of Malarite characters and DM:s alike. Discusses the subject in great depth, enabling one to set the tone of their roleplay even with no other tome at hand. In my opinion the quality matches that of the official seconde edition AD&D sourcebooks. As a persistent world player, I cannot however comment on the game mechanics aspects of the publication.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Malar: The Beastlord Compendium
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Kamillo F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/19/2021 07:33:26

Regarding background and information about Malar and everything that has to do with him, this book is worth its money and I would give it 5 stars. You receive tons of informations about rites, foes and friends, where Malar is influencal. There are some feats, spells, subclasses that might have to be tweaked a bit but these give lots of ideas.

Regarding stat blocks of various NPC's and monsters this simply book doesn't work as most of them are simply wrong and not workable! This has to be changed and a bit of work has to be put into it. Then it would be a full fledged 5 star product. High priests with 40 HD? and +14 attack bonus? - Beasts of Malar with +18 Stealth and Acrobatics?, Kazgaroth with Perception +4 but passive perception 21... The list is very long and as I cannot use nearly any of these stat blocks without heavily modifying or rewrite them completely I have to give 1 star for this part and this is a major part of the book and what I need in an running campaign.

Therefore I give 3 stars for the whole book.



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[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Malar: The Beastlord Compendium
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Patrick H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/12/2019 09:26:54

The upside to this resource is that it most likely has everything you’d need to give Malar a lot of significance in your campaign, for PCs and NPCs alike. The downside, if you want to think of it that way, is that it’s got a very specific target audience: people who want more Malar. I believe it is for that reason that this product is currently only a Copper Best Seller and not Platinum or better. It’s niche within a niche. Nonetheless, it is a great resource and I hope it inspires other similar works. Chapters 1 through 5 are exhaustive. But this is a case where it needs to be. Otherwise all we have is another character options type of product. The context is everything.

Read more: https://www.nonzerosumgames.com/malar-the-beastlord-compendium-by-james-welch/

NOTE: This product was a copper best seller at the time the review was written. It has since achieved Silver status.



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