I ran across this supplement at RPGnow.com’s Edge. It was an impulse buy, but it turned out to be a good one because I really like Octavirate’s Creature Weekly. And the product is just like it sounds. Each week, you get a handful of unique creatures that you can drop into your campaign. It’s a nice way to keep your campaign fresh and if you play a more free style campaign, you can pick and choose what you want to use and drop it immediately into the game you’re running.
I picked up volume one just to check out. In volume one, you get four new creatures, along with some amazing detail and a ton of templates. A really cool feature is that the product gives you ideas to drop the new creatures into an alternative genre. So if you’re playing D20 Modern, you have a detailed description on how to run the creature. I also enjoyed the artwork.
There’s four new creatures in the first volume. You get the Erodaemon, the Deadgem, the Platypus (both common and dire) and the Quan-Ko. If I had to pick a favorite, the Dire Platypus is something I can see using in a one of my campaigns.
They’re now up to seven volumes and the price is very reasonable (they’re on sale for $2.40 per). What’s nice is, you check out which new creatures are in which volume and pick and choose. Like any supplement though, you might buy the product and find two of the four creatures are something you wouldn’t be interested in, but you can say that about any supplement. There’s stuff you’ll use and stuff you won’t. But for a couple of bucks, this is definitely a value. I can see myself picking up a few more of these for sure.