All The Weapons is a fantastic excerise in weapon design. Not only is each weapon, including the often negelected weapons like nets, lances, and whips, featured with plethora of options but also are designed at a variety of rarities. As a DM, I can make broken weapons to give to my players easiely, but creating balanced common and uncommon options is much more difficult. With at least two common/uncommon designs for each weapon, I now have a ton of options for the early levels. All The Weapons also features "handwraps," magical items that enchance unarmed strikes. This is an excellent way to give monks, and other unarmed fighters, magic weapons in the later levels once their unarmed strikes outclass weapon damage.
Overall, All The Weapons is a well laid out, easy to read supplement that showcases the best in both high powered and low powered design. My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that the art sytle varies widely throughout the supplement. Sketches, black and white line art, and full colored art are blended together, sometimes on the same pages. However, I know the difficultly of sourcing art for DMsGuild products and the quantity of art is satisfactory so it will not affect my 5 star rating.
Disclaimer: I recieved a reviewer's copy of this product.
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