Sunday, January 17, 2021

Starfinder: "Alien Archive 2 Pawn Box" [RPG]

 

The Alien Archive 2 Pawn Box is a hefty collection of over 300 thick, double-sided, full-colour cardboard pawns that fit into plastic bases (the box includes 35 bases, with coverage for all the sizes of pawns in the box).  As the artwork is taken directly from Alien Archive 2, it's almost uniformly excellent.  The box includes a good array of huge-sized creatures, and also has about a dozen starship pawns.  Although I haven't done close comparison, I'm pretty sure that pretty much everything in the book has a pawn representing it in this collection.  Of particular use to many GMs will be bone troopers and ghouls (useful for Dead Suns), while players will appreciate having pawns to play an uplifted bear, pahtra, or tiefling.  Reviewing pawn boxes isn't easy as you pretty much get exactly as advertised, but I have no complaints about the collection and have used the set many times.  The only minor complaint I have about all Paizo pawn collections is that they're difficult to organise once punched out, but various gamers have homebrewed their own solutions to that issue.

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