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Too generic and uninspired

Very nice city book
Bluffside: City on the Edge (d20 System)
Jim Govreau , Curtis Bennett , Jeff Quinn , and Andrew Troman
Manufacturer: Mystic Eye Games
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ASIN: 0971324107

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Civilization is still picking up the pieces following an asteroid strike two hundred thousand years ago. The epicenter? Bluffside. Only 208 years after its rediscovery, Bluffside is a boom town boasting the most precious metal in the known world - adamantine. From the ancient ruins of Sem La Vah, to the vast Undercity, to the floating port of Sordadon, Bluffside: City on the Edge promises to become the home port for thousands of adventurers. The first in our line of truly modular sourcebooks, Bluffside can either be dropped into any d20 fantasy campaign world, used as a stand alone city, or combined with our future sourcebooks, thereby creating a modular world one great area at a time.

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Too generic and uninspired.......2005-04-18

In its quest to be a truly modular sourcebook for any d20 setting, Bluffside musters only generic interest. While this sourcebook may be useful for new GMs without the experience to bring life to a campaign, veteran gamers will find Bluffside predictable and over-explained to the point of removing creative thought entirely.

The city of Bluffside is a sprawling metropolis on the edge of a cliff divided into eight distinct districts. The town grew rapidly around the adamandite mines in the vicinity. The ancient history presented is painfully bland and generic as the book tries to make Bluffsidefit into the history of every conceivable d20 campaign setting.

There are 71 pages of "points of interest", plotting out almost every tavern, inn, business, or building. While a dozen or so important places in the city are valuable tools for a GM, I doubt I need the more than 120+ descriptions found in the book. Most of these points of interest lack any real meaning, and a GM could just as easily make up these places on the fly without having to look them up in a book. Again, for a GM lacking in imagination, this may be useful. Then again, if you lack imagination should you be running a game?

The chapter detailing the gods is wishy-washy and uninspired. All the gods have generic names like "Builder", "Healer", or "Great Teacher". The book refuses to take a position on whether or not there is a hierarchy among the gods. Again, in its attempt to be a true modular setting, it tries to make sure the gods neatly coincide with the deities of any campaign setting.

There are 30 pages of NPC's listed and five pages of generic guards, leaving no room for error on the GMs part. Gods forbid you have an adamantine Gate Guard confused with a Citadel Guard or Bluffside Regular Guard.

The book provides a few new races. I don't include the Steam Gnomes, which seem to be just another name for tinkergnomes. Most of the races offered seem too unbalancing to allow without any sort of level adjustments. The Dragori (a reptilian race with three sub-types) receive bonuses to natural armor and the multiattack feat for free. The SixanIeuna possess the ability to fly. Sel'varahn can breath underwater. With the except of the Nevae (a cross between an elf and a drow) and the Steam Gnomes, I would not allow any of these races in a campaign without some level adjustments.

The prestige classes are unnecessary and uninspired. The Bluffside Mountain Ranger is a glorified ranger that hates goblinoids. The cat burglar is just another thief with a few extra abilities. The Explorer attempts to be a hybrid of a ranger and a druid but comes across as a thrown together class. The Tunnel Fighter grants a lot of abilities that already belong to dwarves, such as stonecutting, but since the book claims most tunnel fighters are dwarves, I fail to see the point in the class.

There are a few interesting new spells and magical items offered in this book, but many of the spells and feats seem to be ripped off and reworded from other books. The authors seemed to have gotten sloppy in this last section as well. For example, one of the magical items is a ring of knocking, which is identical to a wand of knock. Actually it is of less useful because the wearer actually has to TOUCH the locked door for it to work. It only has 50 charges when made and cost 5000 gp. I'd rather have the wand, so I don't have to touch the door and potentially be in the vicinity of a trap. Also, it has a caster level requirement of 3rd and the prerequisite feat forge ring. This doesn't make sense since forge ring requires the caster to be 12th level.

It is obvious from the amount of detail that the authors put a lot of work into Bluffside. Unfortunately, instead of working toward creating a unique campaign setting with creative and interesting alternatives to what is already available on the market, they chose to make a "one-size-fits-all" city that lacks a passion and spirit of its own.

Very nice city book.......2002-12-29

This is an excellent city for use in D&D. All kinds of plot hooks and statted characters. Still lots of room for DM's to stick in their own stuff. The only problem I have with it is the dislike of the city for sorcerors, which is caused by the local wizards.

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Fatigue is the number-one complaint that doctors hear from their patients, but it is often dismissed as psychological. In the early 1980s, Dr. William G. Crook treated a 35-year-old woman diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). He created a successful treatment program for her that combined a sugar-free diet with oral antiyeast medications. Further research confirmed that sugar and yeast, along with other food and chemical sensitivities, are a major culprit in everything from headaches to anxiety to CFS and related problems. Tired - So Tired presents the doctor's program and additional research in lay terms.

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Tired Soo Tired.......2007-04-02

Very insightful and interesting information on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other syndromes that may be related. Easy to read.

Tired - So Tired!: Yeast Connection.......2007-01-12

Excellent. Very informative. Highly recommend this item for people that are simply exhausted all of time & have become very frustrated in finding a solution. Yeast infections in the body can make your life a living hell.

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The All-in-One Diabetic Cookbook
P. J. Palumbo , and Joyce Daly Margie
Manufacturer: Plume
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ASIN: 0452264677

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By comparing the different national experiences of each country, the book traces the most significant developments in social entrepreneurship emerging in Europe. The work also examines the more traditional non-profit or third sector organisations. The final chapters present an initial attempt to outline a theory of social enterprise.

Internationalization of Research and Development and the Emergence of Global R & D Networks, Volume 8 (Research in International Business)

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Internationalization of Research and Development and the Emergence of Global R & D Networks, Volume 8 (Research in International Business)

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National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 18511950 (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

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National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 18511950 (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
Christopher Kobrak
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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This history of Schering AG (one of Germany's best known pharmaceutical companies) traces its origins as a pharmacy in the middle of the nineteenth century to the first steps of its re-birth as a multinational corporation in 1950. It reveals the various stages of Schering's development, its relationships to other chemical companies, government, bankers and other shareholders. The book presents this corporate history in the context of Schering's changing and increasingly hostile political, social and economic environment.

The Soft Budget Constraint - The Emergence, Persistence and Logic of an Institution

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The Soft Budget Constraint - The Emergence, Persistence and Logic of an Institution
Gun Eriksson Skoog
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ASIN: 0792379101

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The soft budget constraint - today a popular metaphor - is a paradox. In socialist economies, it implies that the state tends to bail out state-owned firms in financial trouble, in spite of the tremendous performance problems of the entire system that result. When the socialist system broke down, the soft budget constraint was expected to disappear. However, it seems to persist, and its persistence appears to hamper the transition process itself.
The Soft Budget Constraint The Emergence, Persistence and Logic of an Institution seeks an answer to this paradox. It aims at increasing our understanding of why the soft budget constraint exists. By investigating state-owned enterprises in Tanzania before, during and after socialism, the prevalence of the soft budget constraint is examined and an explanation of its existence is suggested. The approach is institutional. The soft budget constraint is defined as an informal institution and an invisible-hand explanation of its emergence, persistence and logic is applied.
The book shows that the soft budget constraint emerged as an unintended consequence of the establishment of the Tanzania socialist system in the 1970s. A behavioral solution to recurrent systemic problems was offered, and thus the soft budget constraint performed several functions. Once established, its very existence set off a cumulative process of self-generation. Four reinforcement mechanisms that accounted for its maintenance during Tanzanian socialism are identified. Its character as an informal rule helps to explain why it persisted during market-oriented reform, initiated in the mid-1980s. The soft budget constraint was part of the socialist heritage, was adapted to systemic change, and influenced the direction and character of this change.

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EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
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ASIN: B000N6826K

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History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstruction in this richly illustrated series. Bible: Then & Now features reconstructions of Jerusalem, Babylon, Jericho and eleven other Biblical sites as well as fascinating insight into legacies and people of the Biblical world.

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Great book that gives perspective to Biblical texts........1999-06-02

The overlays are great. Some of the pictures do not show sites as they were in Biblical times but show them a few hundred years after the Bible was finished.

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Excellent travel tool for viewing ruins.......1998-12-14

This would be a great book to carry with you as you tour Israel. The artistic recreations of what the ruins used to look like are so helpful. I went to Israel once before, and even though the tour guides do their best to describe what the ruins looked like, a picture *is* worth a thousand words. This book covers major cities/ sites mentioned in the Bible, not just Roman or Crusader times which are often the emphasis in museums over there. Summaries of Biblical stories accompany the pictures. My only reason for not rating it a "five star" is that I wish it covered even more archaelogical sites. There are 14 overlapping illustrations superimposed over the photos of the ruins.

Armchair tour of archeological Bible sites.......1998-09-21

I bought this book for our church library and found it excellent! It is well-laid out in chapters on each archeological site of religious significance to the life of Christ, with an acetate "Then and Now" view of each site. My students really liked these acetate overlays and put them back and forth over the photos of modern day ruins. Each chapter tells of the Biblical significance and also the archeological significance of each place. Between the chapters lie double-page spreads of Bible stories and how they relate to the sites. This is an excellent book for Christians, amateur travelers, archeologists, architects, even for preteens and teens who play with Legos and can't stop drawing kid-style elevations of buildings.

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