{"id":23869,"date":"2012-07-03T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=23869"},"modified":"2012-07-03T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:53:26","slug":"review-rite-publishing-gobseck-vaultwright-meister-of-the-golden-anvil-faces-of-the-tarnished-souk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=23869","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rite Publishing \u2013 Gobseck Vaultwright, Meister of the Golden Anvil (Faces of the Tarnished Souk)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faces of The Tarnished Souk: Gobseck Vaultwright, Meister of the Golden Anvil<\/strong>
\nGobseck Vaultwright, Meister of the Golden Anvil is a supplement for Coliseum Morpheuon adventure and the Pathfinder Fantasy system written by Matt Banach and Justin Sluder and published by Rite Publishing.
\nBy Cape Rust<\/em>
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Learn more about Gobseck Vaultwright, Meister of the Golden Anvil here<\/a>
\nPurchase Gobseck Vaultwright, Meister of the Golden Anvil here<\/a>
\nFind other Faces of the Tarnished Souk supplements here<\/a><\/p>\n

Money talks and his vault walks! In the realm of dreams, money still has value and you can pawn your dreams. Gobseck Vaultwright sits atop a living vault that is filled with the hopes, dreams and gold of others. He sees no profit in fighting, but he will fight when it comes to protecting his ever increasing horde. Gobseck is not a Druegar to be crossed. He and his magic items can detect and smite cheaters from miles away.<\/p>\n

CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

This 17 page supplement has 13 pages that include Gobseck Vaultwright at CR 20, 13 and 6, variants of \u00a0Gobseck Vaultwright at each of those CRs include the Air-infused, \u00a0Smoke creature, element-Infused and Exemplar templates. There are 5 feats, 2 Armor Enhancements, 5 Weapon Enhancements, 3 magic items (one item has three versions), and a living vault.<\/p>\n

OVERALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have rated Rite Publishing\u2019s Faces of the Tarnished Souk very highly in the past, however Gobseck Vaultwright<\/em> hits the reader with a level drain that might make Rite publishing fans cringe. This entire supplement lacked the spirit of many of the past additions to this series and ended up feeling more like a coherent collection of complex mechanics.<\/p>\n

RATINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publication Quality:<\/em> 7 out of 10
\nFor me this book\u2019s cover was the start of a product that is below Rite Publishing\u2019s standards. Does that mean it is a horrible product that isn\u2019t fit for whipping my backside with, no way! Rite Publishing reads reviews of their products and if the suggested changes make sense they do it. While the cover illustration was well done, it is white on a black background rather than the penciled looking drawing Rite has used in the recent past. This product doesn\u2019t look like part of the Faces of the Tarnished Souk series. Rite has used this drawing before and it normally works, but not in this case. I found a grammatical error on the first page. It could be a word agreement issue, but it just didn\u2019t sound right, not a good way to start a supplement.\u00a0 The suit of armor depicted on page 4 looks like a regular photo with a grey filter placed over it. I\u2019m glad they didn\u2019t go with color on it, but it seemed a bit out of place. If it is a drawing I\u2019m sure it is a great drawing. The pictures of the interior of the living vault felt like they were phoned in. I know it is stock art, but Rite Publishing had a chance to do something amazing with a great concept and failed. A picture of the living vault from the outside would have been epic, but I guess there just wasn\u2019t any stock art to support that\u2026. Rite is still doing a good job of branding some images with bits of information from other books and the reprinting of feats or templates is helpful and creates the \u201cone stop shopping\u201d experience GMs crave.<\/p>\n

Mechanics:<\/em>\u00a08 out of 10
\nRite Publishing\u2019s templates, while interesting, are overpowered; they need to develop more prerequisites to balance them out. I have tried to justify the whole these characters are high level, but with no level requirements of these templates, things could get out of hand really quick. Some of these abilities are like putting a cocked and loaded gun in a small child\u2019s hand, something bad is bound to happen. Many of the mechanics in this supplement were good, but really crunchy, like crack your tooth crunchy. I\u2019m not sure if it was because I got off to a bad start with this supplement, but as I read what some of the abilities and magic items do I tried to figure out how long a round of combat would take and how many calculations would need to be made to resolve that round if you were the GM running Gobseck Vaultwright, and I shuddered.<\/p>\n

Value Add:<\/em> 7 out of 10
\nThere is some great stuff in this supplement, but much of it feels heavy. I can see the point of having a character like Gobseck Vaultwright, but outside of the Tarnished Souk he reeks of diminishing returns. There are some interesting magic items and abilities but they will require lots of paper work and the ability to do cool things becomes un-cool if those cool things become over complicated.<\/p>\n

Overall:<\/em> 7 out of 10
\nWhen you are producing top shelf products you are bound to have a bad batch and sadly for Rite this is that \u201cbad batch\u201d The character concept in this felt like the plot to a porn, kinda useless and a bit laughable. Big surprise an angry Druegar banker who was scorned by his one true love, so he dedicated his life to greed\u2026 The living vault is a really cool concept that kept this supplement from dipping lower in the standings. When on sale it is well worth the price, otherwise unless you are running a Coliseum Morpheuon game pass this one up. Don\u2019t worry, Rite Publishing has plenty of other great products out there for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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