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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e $20.00
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by Sarah R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/03/2019 01:49:34

This setting brings a lot of uniqueness to the table and the supplement is pretty great because it offers tons of solid worldbuilding elements. There is a lot of information on the setting and the elements of classical Greek mythology have been brought over into the framework of D&D 5E in a very creative manner, allowing other 5E sources like the Player's Handbook to work with the setting seamlessly. The unique flavourful twists on the races, the magic items, monsters and other setting-specific content are paired with some great evocative artwork to create a beautiful and informative book.

If you are looking to bring the wonder and epicness of Greek Mythology to your table, look no further!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/30/2019 16:48:10

I'm a kickstarter backer, and I've been looking forward to this for several months. Now it's out, and I read through it in about 2 days. It's a really cool setting, I like the background, I like the different city states they've created, and most importantly, it really captures the flavor of Greek myth and is set up well to capture the essential themes of that mythology. I did take away one star because I feel like the world itself could have been fleshed out a bit more - I definitely would have liked more about the various lands and people outside of the major cities themselves. We get some solid information on each of five major city-states (as well as some hints about what lands exist outside Arkadia), but what's around and between them is left as kind of a blank slate. I guess I would have liked perhaps 10-20 pages more detail of the world itself. But for $20, it's absolutely a good buy, and if you are interested in an ancient Greek-inspired world to game in, this is a great resource.

Edit: I'm actually changing my review, and reducing it from 4 stars to 3. I still think this is a good buy, and a good resource, but now that I've had a bit more time to digest it, I think the other complaints about this being bare-bones are legitimate. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like here. The way they've incorporated non-human races into the world really works well, for example. And the way the titans are portrayed. But here's the thing - if I really want to run an ancient Greek D&D game (and I very much do), I don't think I can use this on its own. There's a lot of additional work necessary. For one thing, the way the gods are depicted is overly simplified, not only being reduced to 6 in number (a ludicrous reduction from such a wide and varied pantheon), but all the complex relationships between them have been discarded. I realize that this setting is about the age of heroes, but the doings of the gods in antiquity always mattered. Every hero's destiny was shaped because of something the gods did or didn't do. In Arkadia, the gods seem oddly detached. Between that, the aforementioned emptiness of the region outside the cities themselves, and the fact that the lands outside of Arkadia are only barely touched on (they really don't seem like "lived in" places - the Greeks lived in a much larger world than I think the authors give them credit for), I can't deny that I do have some reservations about this product, despite the things I really do love about it.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by Kevin V. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/29/2019 22:20:56

From the makers of Blood & Bone (a masterful low fantasy standalone game), Arkadia places the gods and monsters of ancient Greece into easy reach for a 5th edition campaign. The setting re-homes familiar 5th edition classes and races in a mythical Bronze Age. If you are new to D&D you will still need a 5th Edition D&D players book and Dungeon Masters guide.

in Arkadia you can play as familiar races with a twist: dark elves worshipping a dead worm beneath the sands, orcish legionaires, humans dwelling at the foot of the gods' own mountain. You can even play as gorgons, harpies, sirens, satyrs and centaurs. The unique Phaedran race of hybrids puts an enchanted perspective at the center of player experience, while still being compatible with 5th edition's humanoid-centric rules. Greek gods are transformed in name, but still take their archetypical roles - wisdom, war, underworld and so on. Their all-too human personalities feel especially at home in the Greek setting, and serve to make the Titans that much more unfathomable, ominoua and alien by comparison.

Players will appreciate that this is an approachable and handsome publication, while GMs will like that it plays nice with other 5e resources. The Enchanted Items and Monster lists are well done, and a short section on naval combat expands on what you might be used to from a 5e game. The lore has compelling hooks, and feels cohesively grounded in Greek myth and D&D.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by Ingolf S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/28/2019 15:55:17

This book has high quality art that is wonderful. That was all the good things I can say about it.

The book has only 100 pages. Since it has many full page or one third of a page illustrations, I say that it is less than 75 pages. So, you'd expect a very crunchy text, but that isn't the case. There are long lists of things like possible names that fill-up pages.

Of the "new" races only the Phaedran seem intersting. The rest is mostly a rebranding of things already out there, but it does not have much flavor. Since there are no backgrounds in the book characters should use the the old ones from the Player's Handbook, but those do not tie into the setting at all. E.g. the Ravnica book did this perfectly. So, your characters are just rebranded versions of the standard fantasy ones.

The monster section was somewhat ok, but there is very little in here and again almost no real hook into the setting.

I thought that probably the setting description will give me more of that mythological Greek setting that is promised, but again everything is on a superficial level.

In summary: no real crunch and no fluff either. For 5 bucks that might be ok, but 20 is almost an insult.



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[2 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by Griffin E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/27/2019 17:52:36

This has much more coherent and succinct descriptions than I'm used to in these kinds of projects. As someone who really just wanted to breath new life into my existing campaigns to keep my players fascinated this is absolutely wonderful. The magical items alone are ridiculously interesting. (I'm already planning on having a "trade ship" arrive in my current campaign to introduce some of these items into the world my players are currently in.) which I'm then going to use as the foreshadowing before they find their way to this new land. Keep up the great work. :-)



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by Alexander M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/27/2019 16:43:41

I backed Arkadia since the beginning of the Kickstarter, and this was worth every penny. The team is talented, and I can't wait to see more of what they do.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Arkadia - The Greek Setting for 5e
Publisher: Arcana Games
by James F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/27/2019 12:25:09

This was a true treasure to read, I snapped it up as soon as I saw it and was not disappointed. The setting is wonderfully done, the tone just what someone who wants to play with a mythic feel is looking for, and I love the equipment updates for all the classes.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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