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City Quarters: Temple Quarter

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This is the second volume in the City Quarters series from Game Mechanics, a company that sorta operates sporadically and part-time to release RPG material. The third volume, "Arcane Quarter", just recently released and is only available as a PDF download.

"Temple Quarter" is a d20 fantasy sourcebook that is compatible with D&D 3.5. It's set in the city of Liberty and deals with myriad temples and shrines to pantheons developed by Game Mechanics over the course of several supplements, so there's a fairly coherent and interesting cosmology involved. There's also a good bit of background on Liberty, and tons of material on notable clerical NPCs and their supporting casts. This book is just packed with information--temple layouts and treasuries, dozens of divine rites and celebrations, details on the staffs, supporters, and followers of the various institutions, full statistics on every major cleric, and scads of plot hooks and encounters. And with just a few tweaks, any enterprising GM can customize one or more of these temples or priests to appear in his or her own campaign.

I am just amazed at the staggering amount of stuff to be found in this guidebook. Most gaming supplements have at least a small amount of puffery and page-filler, but this one has a very favorable signal-to-noise ratio. HIGHLY recommended.