A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement #30 Haunts for Battlefields

#30 Haunts for Battlefields by T.H. Gulliver is a role playing game supplement published by Rite Publishing for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License with some parts considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is one of the #30 series of supplements, with this being part of the series that describes haunts of specific types, in this case associated with battlefields.

This is a sixteen page PDF that is available from RPGNow for $2.95 but was purchased at a greatly reduced price (although the exact price is not known) as part of a special bundle. One page of the supplement is the colour front cover, one page the front matter, one page the Open Game License and one page has ads for other supplements in the #30 Haunts series.

The supplement starts with a brief piece of prose referencing Rite’s Questhaven and then gives an overview of the rules for haunts, including persistent and minor haunts. The haunts themselves are then gone into.

These haunts range in CR from 1 (annoyance) to 12 (potentially deadly). They are not all, strictly speaking, directly associated with battlefields, but they are in the same general theme. There are the spirits of executed and killed soldiers, those in barracks that have been burned down, destroyed buildings and a ghostly soldier guarding the now-ghoul former comrade who ate their corpse. All told, there are a lot of different haunts covering a wide variety whilst staying within the same general theme. Some of these haunts could easily be tied together, and perhaps an entire haunted battlefield and surrounds could be constructed, with very few actual monsters.

#30 Haunts for Battlefields in Review

The PDF is well bookmarked, with all the haunts included, as well as the starting sections on haunts in general, although there is no table of contents. Navigation is generally good for a comparatively short supplement.

The text maintains a two column format and no errors were noticed. The layout is a full colour one and there are a number of generally appropriate colour illustrations as well. Presentation is very good.

This is a nice collection of related but often quite different haunts that can be dropped into a campaign. The haunts in this supplement, as befitting the battlefield theme, are all intended to be of a type that is encountered outdoors or in the wilderness. One or two could be used to enliven a journey; many could be used together to create an entire small adventure around.

#30 Haunts for Battlefields is a recommended collection of haunts that can be found by clicking here.