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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Joseph [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/20/2023 18:01:13

It give very little as most 5th edition books do in information, it assumes most people into role playing games are dumb, and like most afraid to really get into mythology it makes it up, while just talking down to you as woke has turned all things to shit....the same goes for tabletop rpgs, and this one is no different, and during the 3.5 years Olympus by sword and sorcery did it better.



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Zargoth's Tome of Familiars
by Hailee M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/31/2023 14:00:26

This magical tome is designed for tabletop gamers, specifically 5e players, who just love to adopt the cute yet deadly creatures that they come across during their sessions. The captivating graphics and user-friendly layout of the book bring each species to life, showing their distinct personalities in spectacular detail. The mechanics are well calibrated, providing a seamless experience for incorporating these exceptional friends and familiars into your travels. The rules are simple and easy to understand, allowing players to form meaningful ties with these beautiful beings. The mechanics like the additional rules, spells and feats, promote engaging gaming whether you seek a cunning mimic spawn or a knowledgeable floating skull. Overall, Zargoth's Tome of Familiars is a must-have addition to boost your RPG sessions to new levels of excitement and innovation and I recommend it to new and veteran DMs alike.



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Fate of the Oracle - A Greek Adventure for 5e
by Thomas C H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 05/05/2022 02:47:06

The good: inspirational! I want to run this! I want to use this as a starting scenario for a campaign, set in Arkadia, or Arkadia-mixed-with-Theros. This ties into some of the great potential of the setting's history, a part I hadn't really latched onto when I read Arkadia last year.

The bad: somebody has dreamed up a story and wants the players to play roles in it. This isn't an adventure; it's essentially a railroad or a string of pre-defined scenes, with a bit of optional questing thrown in to the middle chapter, "strings of pearls" style. In Alexandrian terms, the author prepared a plot instead of preparing a situation. The worldbuilding seems to be totally in service to the story - populations, economics, geography don't seem to have been given weight or support verisimilitude; map layouts are artificial; there's precious little in the book that isn't directly connected to the story the author is telling.

On balance: it's not nearly as badly designed as Odyssey of the Dragonlords, the other quasi-Greek campaign. And I know this story-not-adventure is the norm for modern 5e play, and is referred to as an adventure; it's not, however, what I'd be looking for in an ideal product.

If I have the time and energy to invest, and my players want to do something strongly Greek-themed, I'd spend the weeks reworking this into, first, a set of sites, then second, the thread of events that could link them. The ideas in it seem worth my time.



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Zargoth's Tome of Familiars
by Leons P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/02/2022 07:31:13

This is a really cool book. There is a huge variety of pets, familiars, constructs, animations, and summons organized thematically. I was surprised by how systematic and throrough the book is. For example, fey spirits suitable for my feywild campaign start on page 50 and continue for ten pages.

The art is fantastic, and the level of polish is next-level. Each familiar has a gorgeous, detailed rendering that's on par or even better than the Kobold Press Tome of Beasts or the official Monster Manual.

There is good thought put into the mechanics of acquiring, maintaining, and buffing each type of familiar. There are also some cool feats and magic items.

The authors previously put together the Arkadia setting and Fate of the Oracle campaign, and they've clearly applied their experience to this book



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Fate of the Oracle - A Greek Adventure for 5e
by Daniel K. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 04/05/2021 15:54:15

Great adventure with beautiful maps and art and a nice story. Pairs very well with Theros content. My only nitpicky complaint is that the maps do not appear to be set to any sort of grid so its sort of challenging to use them in a VTT like Roll20 or Foundry.



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Hello Daniel, we're glad to hear you are enjoying the adventure! There is actually an official Roll20 version with gridded maps and bonus content, feel free to check it out and let us know what you think!
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Hegedus G. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 04/02/2021 05:34:17

The design and the illustrations are all wonderfuls, that is fact. Sadly, the book promises much, but give less; basically, this is a highly simplified version of the ancient greek world's feeling. No new backgrounds. The Gods & Titans are dull mirages of the "real" greek gods&titans. (summa 13 page, inculding the settings chapter) The world map is a rough-and-ready sketch: there is only 6 cities, 3 terrain feature and some coarse line of two other landmass. The is only 4 example ships & 3 weapons, but zero instuction how can you use this in a ship-to-ship combat. I backed this project on Kickstarter, but honestly, im deeply disappointed. I can find much more content some free or much cheaper from homebrew author's book. I recommend this work for anybody, who have interest in the ancient, bronze age adventures, but dont like read history or fictional novels/watch movies from the ancient greek era and still want play "something like that".

UPDATE from 2021: dont spend a single dime for this stuff, btw the official MYTHIC ODYSSEYS OF THEROS setting book is only 29usd (in digital form) and that is hundred times better in every possible way. No hard feelings for the authors, but I have learnt the lesson. Peace & out!



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Darren P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/01/2020 10:17:28

Wonderful artwork worthy of the WOTC publications. Nice character classes and races. The only thing that stopped me giving it a 5 was that the gods and goddesses and cities have different names. Not sure why they didn't stick with the original pantheon and city states. It really put my players off.



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Blood and Bone
by Moros F. H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/27/2020 22:15:18

the setting is great, especialy the Numirians. "crafting is a form of worship" is an awesome idea that more games should use.



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Jonathon C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/16/2020 06:26:32

My opinion of "Ethnic Fantasy D&D Settings" is, for the most part, very similar to Ed Greenwood's - I don't normally like them, because they tend to push for a Historical/Low Fantasy approach to D&D that doesn't really mesh with what I want out of D&D. Arkadia, however, was a very pleasant surprise, because it doesn't do that at all - in fact, it completely rejects the "TSR manual" for a setting of its ilk and instead works very hard to keep that Heroic Fantasy feel whilst still remaining true to the Greco-Romans myths and legends that inspired it. In fact, I can't overstate how impressed I am with the way it manages to blend D&D basic elements into Classical Mythology depictions, taking iconic D&D races but making them feel like they belong in this world clearly based on Greco-Roman myths. It's interesting to compare it to Odyssey of the Dragonlords, although I find both have their strengths and weaknesses. The one thing most bothers me about this book is the feeling that it's far too short, especially for its price tag; it feels like it could have had so much more to say about its world, but instead it almost artificially constrains itself, sharing with us the bare minimum of what it has to offer. It's still a good book, but it plays too conservatively with itself, and I just wish it had been longer.



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by michael b. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/11/2020 03:32:21

As others have mentioned, the art is great, the content not so much. Unlike a lot of folks who have left reviews, I'm not on the 5e bandwagon, nore was I invested in the kickstarter. I got this purely for the setting information to potentially adapt with a DIY/OSR style, & I was definetly disappointed. Browsing thru the rules material, I also didn't come across anything I wanted to grab as a cool option for my players. There is nothing we all haven't seen time & time again before.

To be blunt, it's a fairly uninspired take of D&D in ancient Greece. It's not bad, but the thing is there are plenty of other products that work from the same motif, but either have a more interesting twist, are cheaper, or both. When it comes down to it, Arkadia is a classic by-the-numbers approach of taking the standard D&D races & classes, plopping them in the setting du-jour, and tossing some additional character options, magic items, feats & monsters on top. Instead of the incredibly rich selection of fantasy races present in Greek myth, we get anachronistic orcs & elves... with all of the actual Greek demi-human options being lumped under the Phaedran option as sub-races... which is canonically defined as a half-breed of human and whatever mythic race you ACTUALLY wanted to play as. Classes are the same deal, they just take the standard set (including the setting inappropriate ones like paladin, druid, & monk) and giving each one a new subclass option. They give you zilch for magic options... you're going to be using whatevers in the 5E-PH.

GM content they give you nothing... you get big blurb of text descriptions of the city states, classes of monster, and the gods/titans (side note on the titans: they lack the standard deity rules blurb). You get a world map. And that's it. No random generation tables, no guidance or advice on how to create content for the setting, no information on the culture & history of real world ancient Greece and how to use that to adapt other content into your campaign. Admittedly, I'm coming from reading thru OSR material so my standards are a bit high... but there's nothing here to empower the GM to save their time or efficently produce cool adventures; so it gets no points.

To emphasize: there's nothing really WRONG with Arkadia, it's just lackluster. But it's lackluster at a $20 to $40 price tag and it isn't worth that, or the 2020 Ennie nomination for Best Setting that inspired a WTF rection in me to write this review. Simply put, if you're looking for a core setting book for ancient Greece/Bronze Age inspired role-playing, you're simply better off looking elsewhere.



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by chris p. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 06/08/2020 12:28:58

I loved this idea & was not dissapointed when I received the hardcover. The artwork is great! The races & gods are fleshed out perfectly! The world is just enough to get me started; while leaving plenty of room to do my own thing. I especially like the message that it is "based" on a time and/or place, but not beholding to it. That's a great reminder, & opens this up to more possibilities. It's worth the money.



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Fate of the Oracle - A Greek Adventure for 5e
by Melanie d. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 05/04/2020 18:49:43

What a fun romp! If only my junior high school classics course could have been this interesting. There's so much flavor text and detail through-out the adventure, so it's easy for someone who hasn't touched the classics in a long-time to still enjoy and play this ease. There's lots of little side-adventures and hooks to go on, which can help the players along the main story line. Thanks, Arcana Games! :)



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Nate B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/20/2019 21:25:22

REALLY well put together book. Love everything from the race options (Nyssian elves, and the phaedran are my favorite), to the class options (especially the gladiator monk, amazon ranger, philosopher wizard, and ZUES-LIKE PALADIN!!), to the feats/racial feats, and the magic items (love the funeral mask and lover's blades). Not to mention all of the lore/setting info. Definitely enough content and lore to run a very well rounded greek-themed campagin. Can't wait to show my players!!!



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Patrick H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/03/2019 08:09:54

There was a lot of potential for a great product here. But the execution fell short of that greatness. The art is wonderful. The concepts are great. But this is a supplement that doesn’t save the DM work. As a matter of fact, the DM looking to start a Greek setting will find lots of work still left to do if they want to do it in Arkadia.

Read more: https://www.nonzerosumgames.com/arkadia-the-greek-setting-for-5e-by-arcana-games/



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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
by Masha V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/09/2019 01:28:17

I backed Arcadia on Kickstarter and got the order fulfilled thru Drive Thru RPG.

I am really enjoying Arkadia! It is a very comprehensive greek dnd setting with lots of well balanced classes and items to flesh out your adventures. The art is very good and blends beautifully throughout the book.

This was a great purchase!



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