GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 18: Power Items

[dripton]

Yay, a new DF book.

Capsule review: It's short, it's $5, and it's written by Kromm. DF power items are so simple you don't really need this book -- the short sidebar in DF1 is plenty. But if you'd like to expand that little sidebar into 11 pages of detail, this is the book for you.

It goes into detail on what kind of items can be power items, and the benefits and drawbacks of a few types. Details on upgrading or replacing your power item as you get more cash. Some perks and advantages related to power items, including one that costs 75 points that I predict no actual PC will ever buy. And a few suggested optional rules for GMs who want to boost or limit them.

As someone who actually both plays a DF wizard and GMs a DF game with a wizard and a cleric, even I don't actually need this book. But I'll probably use a couple of things from it. Some of the ideas (for example, using your armor as a power item, or changing the rounding on the prices from up to down to be meaner) had already occurred to me. Others (like using your house as a power item, or self-charging power items that aren't powerstones) had not. It's a good read, for the right audience.