Review – Legendary Items
March 13, 2011A useful source book from Purple Duck building on their Legendary Item line providing another set of items that evolve in power with the characters that use them. Even if you do not want to use evolving items they provide a good set of ideas for magic items at various power levels.
Legendary Items is a 28-page PDF (21-pages if you remove the credits/OGL page) for the Pathfinder RPG written by Mark Gedak and Stefen Styrsky and published by Purple Duck Games.
The layout is a standard 2-column format with clear tables. The art is black and white and each item has an accompanying illustration.
The core concept of the legendary items is that they grow with their owner, starting as a basic magic item, an owner who attunes to an item gains greater benefits and can access greater power as they go up in level. Essentially, the magic item levels as the character that owns it does allowing a character to gain a signature item that they can use throughout their adventuring career.
Legendary Items includes fourteen items ranging from books to cloaks, carpets to harps. The item can be used by a variety of classes with a few specifically targeted (spell book, harp). Though two of the items are variants on the same theme, which they discuss as a product of parallel development.
Beyond the items, there are six spells, one clerical domain (song) and two creatures statted out. So, there is some useful content beyond the items themselves. Also, it has the most extensive OGL page I have ever seen, referencing literally hundreds of OGL products and running six pages.
Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
