{"id":30662,"date":"2013-01-14T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=30662"},"modified":"2013-01-09T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:23:26","slug":"review-raging-swan-press-stairs-dungeon-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=30662","title":{"rendered":"Review: Raging Swan Press &#8211; Stairs (Dungeon Dressing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?attachment_id=30135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30135\" title=\"RPC-Review-Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RPC-Review-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RPC-Review-Banner.png 600w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RPC-Review-Banner-150x22.png 150w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RPC-Review-Banner-300x45.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Dungeon Dressing: Stairs<\/strong><br \/>\nStairs is a fantasy supplement from the Dungeon Dressing series of supplements for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game written by Creighton Broadhurst and published by Raging Swan Press.<br \/>\n<em>By Venus De Coy<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?attachment_id=31029\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31029\" title=\"RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs-231x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs-231x300.jpeg 231w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs-115x150.jpeg 115w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs-463x600.jpeg 463w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RSP-GMR-DD-Stairs.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Dungeon Dressing: Stairs <a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/reference\/?p=42173\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><br \/>\nPurchase Dungeon Dressing: Stairs <a href=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/product\/103061\/Dungeon-Dressing%3A-Stairs&amp;affiliate_id=295633\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><br \/>\nFind other Dungeon Dressing products <a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?tag=dungeon-dressing\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dungeon Dressing: Stairs <\/em>is a small 13 page supplement for the Pathfinder System. Along with some nice rules explanations about stairs, it includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A table presenting 50 options for interesting features of your stairs.<\/li>\n<li>A table presenting 100 pieces of stair dressing to breathe life into your creation.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Three clever, challenging stair-based traps (CRs 3-7; and four variants).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is currently available at DriveThruRPG and Paizo.com for the low price of 1.99.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OVERALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a first for me, to consider a new way to look at stairs besides them being broken or working fine. And I can simply say that I am not going to look at stairs the same way again. In this case, that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RATINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Publication Quality:<\/em> 10 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Presentation of Layout<\/strong>:\u00a0Layout is done once again in simple, minimalistic format that comes with Raging Swan Press. The bookmarks are done well and the format is quite nice. But I would love more than anything to see these supplemental products have a little bit of color, or Sepia for that matter, to balance out the simplicity. Since I do not think they will change that, it would be nice to see one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ease of Mobility<\/strong>: This product transferred over well to my Kindle with ease. They have a printable and a digital version, and I love both.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mechanics:<\/em> 9 out of 10<br \/>\nNow, this was the first product that I actually playtested somewhat before reviewing it. I run an online game with a few family members who live far away, and I had written a &#8220;Never-ending Staircase&#8221; while players were scaling up a Wizards&#8217; Tower. The stair case had a few of the traps that were quite brutal for them to handle even at their CRs.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanically, the staircases are sound, and the information providing the staircases with their functions and works are quite informative and helpful whether you are playing a homemade campaign, or a regular Pathfinder adventure like <em>Masters of the Fallen Fortress<\/em> in which I was running (revamp in progress) at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Value Add:<\/em> 9 out of 10<br \/>\nSo the downside to all of these supplements that are specific, is that they are only for one or two things, and then they aren&#8217;t really applicable to other things outside of it. The price is quite right for the item, and you still get a good return for your money. I would recommend Raging Swan Press consider a bundle for their series, so that way you can get a little more, but as is, it&#8217;s quite well worth it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Overall:<\/em> 9 out of 10<br \/>\nMinus the specialty of product, this is a product that is quite a lot of fun, and you will want to use the product right away the next time you have people going up stairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dungeon Dressing: Stairs Stairs is a fantasy supplement from the Dungeon Dressing series of supplements for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game written by Creighton Broadhurst and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,169],"tags":[1941,336,14,216],"class_list":["post-30662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-reviews","tag-dungeon-dressing","tag-epic-fantasy","tag-pathfinder","tag-raging-swan-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}