A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Glavost: Fairy Tale Village

Glavost: Fairy Tale Village by Stephen Rowe is a role playing game supplement published by Playground Adventures for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This supplement is a companion to the adventure Pixies on Parade and is also the setting for For the Hive! and is aimed at children.

This is a 19 page PDF that is available from DriveThruRPG for $2.95 but it was acquired for free on Free RPG Day. One page is the front cover, one the front matter and contents and one the Open Game License.

The supplement starts by giving some background history of the village and the Nightmare King with a Pathfinder stat block for the settlement. Key NPCs covers the major characters both within and without the village, as this includes the Nightmare King, the child he stole and the fairy godmother.

Glavost Gazetteer covers the main locations in the settlement, and there is a perspective map of the village.

Rumors and Stories has several of these related to the village.

Finally, New Monsters has a variety of new creatures, including fey, gremlins and the various incarnations of the Nightmare King, from his current reduced straits to his potential mythic bogeyman status.

Glavost: Fairy Tale Village in Review

The PDF is reasonably bookmarked with the major sections linked. The contents is to a similar level of depth and is also hyperlinked. Navigation is decent, but it could be deeper. The text maintains a two column colour format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of custom colour illustrations, including for every monster – although that of the fairy godmother is tiny – and the village itself. Presentation is excellent.

This would appear to have expanded on Glavost from Pixies on Parade, so there is likely to be a bit of overlap. However, this will probably work well as a companion supplement for running that adventure. The village is nicely detailed and there are some ideas that could be expanded into other adventures, as well as the decent collection of new monsters. Glavost: Fairy Tale Village is a nice example of a children’s supplement and it can be found by clicking here.