The Miscellaneous Anniversary Edition aka All About Everything Else by John Josten is a generic role playing game supplement published by Board Enterprises. The supplement is part of the Small Bites series and is the ‘World Walker’ version; the full version is available to Patreon supporters and is more than double the length.
The supplement is available for free from DriveThruRPG as a 29-page PDF. One page is the front cover and the final three pages explain what’s included in the full version and give various links.
The first page is the Introduction and Table of Contents. The Introduction explains that this supplement contains information that wasn’t included in previous editions, and the attempt to make an appendix supplement available to Patreons though a password didn’t work.
The Fletnern Wiki contains a series of entries from the wiki, all related to material in the previous editions. The entries contain information on sites, individuals, businesses, military actions, families, legends, cities and oceans.
The Sounding Board is a collection of blog posts.
Why not create hundreds of vampires? relates to Creatures of the Night and explains that there are few vampires because the vampires don’t want to create rivals and don’t want to really motivate their food supply against them, or overstretch it.
Matriarchs Among the Yugsalanti relates to Fortune Tellers and how the matriarchal Yugsalanti clans work.
Crowding the Pantheon is on Fantasy Entertainment and how Forsbury includes some outside gods in its society.
Policing Teams is related to Police and how a team operates so that they don’t interfere with each other.
Everybody’s a Merchant relates to Cartage and is how teamsters on caravans will often dabble in trading themselves, with mixed results.
Lifestyles of the Magical and Mundane starts with descriptions of several different Church Speakers, related to Women in Roleplaying, that can be found in Forsbury, with their different styles.
Coal is on the coal that is used in Forsbury for heating.
Stables is related to Equines and covers how stables are actually set up.
Wet Behind the Ears is an extensive examination of the sort of equipment an adventurer would need to have with them.
News of Fletnern starts with The Hobgoblin War, which may not have been a war and started when a hobgoblin tribe decided to strike out on their own.
The Defeat of Garnock at Rhum explains how the forces of Garnock were defeated by what seemed to be a significantly smaller enemy.
The Conquering War is on the Garnock army embarking on a conquest of parts of the continent; what worked, and what didn’t.
The Kingdom of Krzuenghoff is a small kingdom to the south of Rhum, one that has grown a bit in power.
The Good Life relates to Hoards and is on some noteworthy silver figurines and various similar items inspired by them.
Peasant Art is what valuables peasants might own.
Slang & Superstition has a couple of terms.
Monsters and Other Menaces relates to Organised Crime and covers the blue lions of the Latvich Badlands.
Small Towns and City Neighbourhoods covers the East End of Forsbury.
The Miscellaneous Anniversary Edition aka All About Everything Else in Review
The PDF is well bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. The Table of Contents is not as thorough but is hyperlinked. There are also a number of external hyperlinks to related supplements and wiki entries. Navigation is very good. The text maintains a two-column black and white format and appeared to be nearly free of errors. There are a number of pieces of black and white stock and public domain art. Presentation is okay.
The Small Bites series tends to be a collection of roughly related articles, rather than a coherent whole. In this edition, the articles are not even connected, as can be expected from the title. They cover a whole range of different subjects that have already been covered in more depth. Consequently, this edition is even more all over the place than usual with regards to content, but it is supposed to be that way. This entry in the series is, as usual, an interesting collection of articles, but it is even more eclectic than normal. The Miscellaneous Anniversary Edition aka All About Everything Else can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
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