OSR Review & Commentary On Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide By James & Joey Moran Mishler For The Shadowdark rpg & Especially Castles & Crusades rpg

" Rabalinn on the Rime River

Book I: Player's Guide
Designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG
By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler

The Rabalinn on the Rime River Player's Guide is the first fully detailed player' guide for the Talismundia Campaign Setting.

The materials presented in this booklet present two new classes, 20 new spells, new patrons for warlocks and witches, and a complete pantheon for the Borean peoples of Talismundia.

This supplement is designed to provide information for developing player characters for a campaign set in the world of Talismundia, particularly in the lands of the Ice-Witch Wastes, Rime River Marshes, Reotan Forest, and Icy Sea of Region 01: The Cold Steppes.

Designed for use with Shadowdark, easily adaptable to any other classic style OSR Role-Playing Game."

This review is going to pick up from previous reviews on this blog here.  

 
The  Talismundia Region campaign by James Mishler games just got a major update with the Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide. There was a huge info and game dump with the following: 

The Rabalinn on the Rime River Player's Guide includes:

Details on the Peoples of the Cold North
Frostblod Warlock Class
Ice Witch Class
Ice Witch Mishap Tables
Ice Witch Spells  four spells each for five tiers
Rimelords, including Ahti and Vellamo (Lawful, Borean), Louhi (Chaotic, Borean), Rlim Shaikorth (Chaotic, Outsider), Skadi (Neutral, Auroran), and Ymir (Chaotic, Auroran)
Rimelord Boons
Borean Gods
Borean Afterlife
Information Tables for the Borean, Auroran, Drakgudar, Hesperian, Holy Church of Law and Temple of Evil Chaos, Tenebrian, and Vesperian Pantheons

Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide By James & Joey Moran Mishler adds a whole other aspect to the Rabalinn on the Rime River campaign with brand new classes, aspects on ice and regular magic, new gods, aspects of Chaos and Law plush much more. This all comes in with forty pages of new material with a well edited, laid out, and given set of features. 
However given the amount of material here, there's another OSR role playing game that the Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide could easily work with. And that's Castles & Crusades! There's more then enough material here to easily expand anyone's C&C campaign. There's gods, monsters, new classes, and more. 

 Why the  Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide works well with Castles & Crusades is because the Shadowdark and the C&C systems are easily crosscompitable enabling the C&C DM to get the best bang for their dollar..  There more then enough within the the Talismundia Region as a campaign to have a group of players going for years. Talismundia is a campaign setting is open enough to allow a DM to add their own spin on adventures and the campaign setting without getting bogged down in too much detail. 
And this is one of the strengths of James Mishler's design work and writing. He knows how to present a product with enough too get the DM started without drowning him or her in the morass finer detail and points. 

Is the  Talismundia Region 01: Rabalinn on the Rime River Book I: Player's Guide worth the price of admission?! In a word yes! This is especially true of the great material that's been made avaiable in this latest Talismundia product!