A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Azger’s Freight Handlers

Azger’s Freight Handlers by Cliff Dunn is a role playing game supplement published by ZealZaddy for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available as a 11 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, one the front matter, one the Contents and one the Open Game License.

The first two pages of content are taken up by some links to Free City of Vadashar material, a sidebar, Welcome to the Free City of Vadashar, that is duplicated from other supplements and gives background and history of the city, and some details on using Azger’s Freight Handlers in a non-Vadashar or a Vadashar campaign.

Azger’s Freight Handlers explains that this is one of the busiest local cargo transporters in Vadashar’s Grand Caravanaserie. It mentions some of the company’s customers and gives a history from its founding by Azger fifty years ago, his sale of it thirty years ago to one of the workers and a consortium of investors and who is still running it in the present day. There is also a section on packages that are undeliverable, for whatever reason. These are kept in a secure warehouse until the rightful owner can provide reasonable proof of ownership, though this has still meant that decades worth of packages, including valuable and magical items, are stored in the warehouse. A sidebar gives stats for the current owner, Davril.

Adventure Hooks has two of these. One involves Davril’s brother-in-law, who is statted; one of the original investors who wants the characters to basically raid the secure warehouse for valuables. The other also involves the warehouse; in this one Davril wants the characters to help sort through the goods.

Azger’s Freight Handlers in Review

The PDF is well bookmarked with major and minor sections linked (though one bookmark is in the wrong place). The Contents is to a similar level of depth and is hyperlinked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of colour stock illustrations. Presentation is good.

This supplement will be easy enough to drop into another setting; all that’s needed is somewhere that goods are shipped around and any fantasy city and most towns qualify for that. The secure warehouse could be used by a GM to slip new or interesting items into the campaign, and either adventure hook could work for that. Azger’s Freight Handlers is a useful little supplement and it can be found by clicking here.