Review: 100 Dangerous Plants
100 Dangerous Plants; Alice Liddell/Azukail Games
Are you heading out for a grand adventure? Are you ready to blaze that trail? Are you ready to DIE?
100 Dangerous Plants exists to save the lives of wayfaring adventurers navigating any campaign in any terrain. The book covers terrain from basic forest trees and plants, to the tundra, to the seaside. Of course it also covers desert plants, mountains, swamps, farmlands and so much more.
As a legitimate herbalist in this place we all refer to as the “real world,” I found this was a blast to read. Of course I wondered, what plants would reverse the effects? You see, Mother Nature didn’t mess around. For example, growing near poison oak you find jewel-weed, which helps with that. Plants that are good for the urinary tract grow near rivers, see what she did there? There’s nothing so comforting in the vast lands of the adventurer, where only folks who have come to terms with the fact that everything, yes, everything, wants to kill you are found to roam. If you are such an adventurer, you must have it.
It takes a certain type of genius to create plants for a compilation like this. To imagine the environmental factors and all the variables that go along with that, then translate all of that information into legitimately scary plants that kill or maim in a vast array of bloody, puss-filled, bone crushing and even blood-sucking ways, this is art. When all the variables are considered, as they are in the manuscript, killing effects are unique for each plant, every single one presents a whole new world of trouble for an adventurer, and that’s just to take a quick short cut through the woods, if you’re still up for it.
You’ll think twice before climbing a tree when being chased by a big brown bear! You’ll think twice again before running into the seemingly welcoming cover of the forest! Wanna live to hit the tavern another day? Then 100 Dangerous Plants is a must have. It’s complete, leaves (see what I did there?) no stone unturned and describes in grisly detail just how glorious your death will be when crossing these plants unawares. Plants like Bone-Crusher Snapdragon, Gallowvine and Despair Daisy speak for themselves, and if they didn’t, it wouldn’t matter, dead men tell no tales…
It looks great, it reads great, it simply is great. To a lot of people these days, 100 of anything is too many, who has the attention span for that? And hey, a plant is a plant is a plant, right? Not so in the case of this informative and entertaining manuscript, a must have for anyone who takes surviving their campaign seriously.
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