Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Magnimar, City of Monuments is a role playing game supplement published by Paizo Publishing 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 describes a city in the official campaign setting.
The supplement is available as a PDF from the Paizo store for $13.99 and is also available in printed form from sites such as Amazon. The PDF is the version reviewed, although it was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. It has 68 pages with two being the front and rear covers, one the front matter and Table of Contents and one an ad and the Open Game License. Two more pages, the inside covers, consist of a map of Magnimar and a full-page illustration.
Magnimar gives a brief history of the city, including a timeline, and an overview of its current position, together with the city’s stat block, and a sidebar discusses the magic of the monuments. Magnimar is known for the magic that many of the monuments have acquired, and this explains that the monuments described later grant boons for those who perform minor acts. This then covers the city itself. The Districts take up the majority of the supplement. Magnimar is divided into nine districts and each has a stat block, similar to those seen for settlements but in less depth, followed by an overview of the district, a map of the district showing important locations and then descriptions of those locations, together with mentions of NPCs associated with them and sidebars on a variety of subjects connected to the city, from the criminal organisations to the city guards to the empyreal lords.
Plots and Perils covers the hinterlands of the city, including notable groups, the sewers, a criminal organisation and the Irespan and the properties of the stone from it.
Denizens starts with day and night encounter tables for the different districts. Following this are 13 different creatures, ranging from inhabitants of various types to monsters and constructs.
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Magnimar, City of Monuments in Review
The PDF is bookmarked to a reasonable level of depth. The Table of Contents only covers the main sections. Navigation is adequate. The text maintains a two-column colour format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of colour illustrations, up to full page in size, which appear to be custom. Presentation is good.
This is a decent city supplement. It covers a range of important locations, though maps of at least some of these would have been nice, together with NPCs and organisations in enough detail that there are plentiful adventure hooks, even without the various adventure paths that cross through the city. Magnimar is in Paizo’s Golarion setting, but it is also a city-state and it should be comparatively easy to remove the setting-specific details, making this easy enough to drop into other game worlds. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Magnimar, City of Monuments is a decent city supplement and it’s available from Amazon.
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