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Use as Misdirected (D20 Modern) $2.29
Publisher: LPJ Design
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by Shane O. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 12/28/2006 00:00:00

Use as Misdirected is a Modern d20 supplement from LPJ Design. The zipped file is somewhat greater than half-a-megabyte in size, and contains a single PDF file. The PDF is thirteen pages long, including half-a-page for the cover, and a page for the OGL. There is no table of contents, nor bookmarks.

The book?s only true illustration is the image on the cover, which is largely made of gray dot-imaging. The title is made of white letters on a black and red background. This black and red pattern is repeated as a border on alternating sides of each page throughout the product. Other than headers, feat names, and vehicle names being listed in red, this is all the artwork you?ll find here. This makes the lack of a printer-friendly version largely forgivable.

Use as Misdirected is based around the (true) idea of making weapons and utility items from the things you already have around your home, or at least can easily buy at the store. The book lists forty-eight different items that can be made as such, covering a wide range of things from boilerplate armor to potato cannons, from home-made napalm to a personal submarine. After that are sixteen feats that specialize in things related to the aforementioned items, such as being an expert demolitionist to knowing how to hotwire a car easily.

While Use as Misdirected is predicated on a great idea, it doesn?t live up to its potential, as many entries are missing crucial information. For example, the aforementioned boilerplate armor doesn?t actually have an armor bonus given. Oxygen rockets have no damage listing, etc. While the majority of the items here have all of their relevant data given, enough are missing crucial bits like this that it cripples the product to a significant degree. It?s a related issue that the table near the end of the book, listing the size, weight, purchase DC, and restriction for the various things in the book, only covers twenty of the four-dozen items given here.

Ultimately, this book is one that needed to go back through editing another time to add in the various missing values for several of its items. Likewise, the table needs to cover everything in the book, even if some of the items (such as coin razors) would have insignificant stats on it. That level of completeness is what?s necessary to turn this product into one that?s great, not merely good in spite of its errors. The bottom line is that Use as Misdirected needs some direction itself. <br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: This book contained ideas for a great number of things that can be easily made by characters in a Modern game. This is a very cool idea, and the book is usually good about quantifying things in d20 stats.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: There are too many cases here where important figures such as damage for weapons and bombs isn't given at all. Also, the table of items near the end of the book should include all of the items in the product.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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