The Big Birthday Haul of 2016 - Part Two

I took a small break from this unboxing to give a thorough read-through of the three books I got.  As I read them, I realized a way that Dragons of Eberron and Secrets of Xen'drik can be combined to do a sort of epic mega-campaign.  Wait, I forgot, I never mentioned that I also had Secrets of Xen'drik, did I.  I guess I jumped the gun at the excitement I had that there was symbiosis between two of my books.  So, where did I leave off...

Oh yeah...

My second package was in a manila envelope that came alongside the cardboard box.  I actually thought that this envelope was going to contain one of the Swashbuckling Adventures books, seeing as they are soft cover and all.  In truth, I had no reason to think that, I received hard covers in such packaging before.  I did rip off a corner of the opening flap, which was the only part of it free from tape.  Not wanting another struggle, I turned to a small pocket knife to carefully assist in the opening process.

Out of the packaging slid Secrets of Xen'drik.  Quick blogger bio, Xen'drik was one of the things about Eberron that sold me on the setting.  It's exotic and alien, something fresh for D&D and fantasy settings as a whole.  I was a little let down on the dearth of information on the continent, and how the book leaned more on crunch on a passing glance.  C'set la d20, that is all I can say.  I sped-read the entire book, cover to cover, before even thinking of writing the unboxing blogs.

I know this post is a lot shorter than the previous one, seeing as how this was one book in a package that required very little back story.  So far, this birthday haul has been a good one.  I still have two more books floating around in the mail system, which will be subjects to parts 3 and 4 respectively.  I also received more gift cards for my birthday, and more than likely will receive more for Christmas.  Therefore, there shall be many more unboxings, and many reviews of these fine products coming in the near future.  Some of these have even made me think about crunch in OSR products, which will also be blogged about in the future, like THAC0.

 The haul so far...