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Echelon Reference Series: Witch (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 09/28/2022 00:12:34

Originally posted here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/09/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Back in August, I reviewed the Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells which covers every witch spell for Pathfinder. It is a great series that represents a near Sisyphean effort to track all these spells. An effort that is only apparent once you dig into it. Tonight I thought I might go for their collection of witch class material. Basically, everything for the witch but the spells. As always I will be following my rules for these reviews.

Echelon Reference Series: Witch (3pp+PRD)

Again this one comes as two PDFs. One for Pathfinder and one for Pathfinder and all other Third Party material. The author points out that these are "living" documents as the material will be updated periodically.

Presently the Pathfinder book is 78 pages and the Pathfinder + 3PP book is 196 pages.

Both books follow the same format.

About the Echelon Reference Series

This give you an overview of not just these two books but the series as a whole. Explains the differences between the PRD (Pathfinder SRD) and PRD+3PP (Pathfinder SRD plus Third Party Publishers) and the multiple versions of various books.

This section also covers the issue of duplicate names; that is when one publisher calls something "X" and another publisher calls something "X" as well but they do different things. Also some things may have different names but do remarkably similar things. In both cases everything is here.

Classes and Archetypes

Covers the basic witch class and the published (and Open) archtypes. The PRD covers just material that is open from Paizo and can be found (for the most part) in the Pathfinder SRD. The PRD+3PP covers the same but also all of the Open 3PP material.

Class Features

For the witch, this covers all her Patrons and all the various Hexes she can take. This might be one of the more useful chapters in the book.

Other Options

Here we get favored class options, feats specifically for witches, and spell casting options. No spells since those are covered in multiple other Echelon books.

NPCs

What it says on the tin. The PRD has five and the PRD+3PP has the same five plus five more

Appendices

Not much here yet save for the Index and the OGL.

There is no art, nor is art required. This is a massive data dump designed for people that want only the crunch and none of the fluff.

This does not replace the products it gets its OGC from. The "source" products may have in-world examples or other materials that situate all of this to give proper perspective. This is the RAW OGC as is. For me? I use Section 15 of the OGL statement here as a shopping list. I use the original books/sources as my inspiration, but I sue this as my quick reference.

Looking forward to seeing what else is added!



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells IX (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:56:00

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 9th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 22 spells. The Third Party book has 109 spells. Total of 60 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 9th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells VIII (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:55:07

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 8th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 28 spells. The Third Party book has 122 spells. Total of 62 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 8th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells VII (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:53:38

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 7th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 40 spells. The Third Party book has 131 spells. Total of 64 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 7th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells VI (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:52:30

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 6th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 39 spells. The Third Party book has 142 spells. Total of 74 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 6th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells V (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:51:32

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 5th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 51 spells. The Third Party book has 163 spells. Total of 74 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 5th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells IV (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:50:17

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 4th level spells. The Pathfinder book has 70 spells. The Third Party book has 188 spells. Total of 76 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 4th level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells III (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:47:21

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 3rd level spells. The Pathfinder book has 88 spells. The Third Party book has 221 spells. Total of 86 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 3rd level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells II (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:37:35

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 2nd level spells. The Pathfinder book has 107 spells. The Third Party book has 251 spells. Total of 90 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 2nd level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells I (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:35:55

Full review of all the products in this series can be found here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover 1st level spells. The Pathfinder book has 83 spells. The Third Party book has 200 spells. Total of 70 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.

All of these represents a lot of hard work on the part of the author to collate all of these spells and get them into proper shape.

Choose this product if all you need are 1st level Witch Spells.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells Compiled (3pp+PRD) [BUNDLE]
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:27:40

Review of the combined book here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

This bundle is designed for people that want all of the spells, but want them split up my level into seperate books.

This compiled collection covers both spells from various Pathfinder products and the 3rd Party Pathfinder products. There is no fluff. Very little art. Here is how each book breaks down. There is a cover page, and OGL statement of Open Content page, a table of contents, and two pages on what this book is. For the Pathfinder book there is three pages of OGL. For the 3rd Party book there are seven pages for the OGL. There is a hyperlinked index for both and hyperlinked table of contents.

The rest is solid text of spells.

And by spells. I mean every single witch spell ever published by the date of this book. The 3rd Party book for example has nearly 30 pages of cantrips, 50 pages of 1st level spells, 60 2nd level spells and so on.

The spells are given an editorial clean-up so that they all look similar and can flow well.

What these books lack (and were never trying to cover) is all the fluff or explanatory pieces that might go with the background of a spell. For example "Air Bubble" mentions a firearm can be loaded within an Air Bubble, but makes no attempt to explain anything more. This is perfectly within the scope of this product.

You might ask if you buy this does that get rid of the need to buy other Pathfinder spell books? I say no since there is nothing here but the spells. Other products often have the spells, explanatory notes, monsters, feats, and items that might go with them. These books are a fancy SRDs. Highly organized and very useful ones at that.

If you are like me this is a treasure trove.



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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells Compiled (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 08/11/2022 09:24:13

Originally posted here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/08/100-days-of-halloween-echelon-reference.html

Today I want to explore the amazing reference that is the Echelon Reference Series from Keith Davies. There are a bunch of these, but I am going to focus my attention on the witch.

Echelon Reference Series: Witch Spells Compiled (3pp+PRD)

2 PDFs. $33.99. 186 pages (PF) and 544 pages (3PP).

Yes. 730 pages total. This compiled collection covers both spells from various Pathfinder products and the 3rd Party Pathfinder products. There is no fluff. Very little art. Here is how each book breaks down. There is a cover page, and OGL statement of Open Content page, a table of contents, and two pages on what this book is. For the Pathfinder book there is three pages of OGL. For the 3rd Party book there are seven pages for the OGL. There is a hyperlinked index for both and hyperlinked table of contents.

The rest is solid text of spells.

And by spells. I mean every single witch spell ever published by the date of this book. The 3rd Party book for example has nearly 30 pages of cantrips, 50 pages of 1st level spells, 60 2nd level spells and so on.

The spells are given an editorial clean-up so that they all look similar and can flow well.

What these books lack (and were never trying to cover) is all the fluff or explanatory pieces that might go with the background of a spell. For example "Air Bubble" mentions a firearm can be loaded within an Air Bubble, but makes no attempt to explain anything more. This is perfectly within the scope of this product.

The number of spells break down as follows:

Witch 3pp Cantrips: 123
1st level: 200
2nd level: 251
3rd level: 221
4th level: 188
5th level: 163
6th level: 142
7th level: 131
8th level: 122
9th level: 109 Total 1,650

Witch Prd Cantrips: 15
1st level: 83
2nd level: 107
3rd level: 88
4th level: 70
5th level: 51
6th level: 39
7th level: 40
8th level: 28
9th level: 22 Total 543

That's insane really.

He also has these per level and for every spell casting class in Pathfinder.

You might ask if you buy this does that get rid of the need to buy other Pathfinder spell books? I say no since there is nothing here but the spells. Other products often have the spells, explanatory notes, monsters, feats, and items that might go with them. These books are a fancy SRDs. Highly organized and very useful ones at that.

If you are like me this is a treasure trove.



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Echelon Explorations: Polyhedral Pantheons
by Siobhan B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/12/2021 22:17:16

Fantastic product, I consider it indispensable for world building. The methodology presented is stimulating and provides all the limitations needed to aid the creative writing process. I frequently recommend this book to colleagues in the industry.



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Creator Reply:
Hi Siobhan, I had not seen your review until today, thank you for your kind words. I'm proud of this title, and I'd be interested in seeing what you've done with it. Keith
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Echelon Reference Series: Witch Cantrips (3pp+PRD)
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 04/10/2020 10:25:12

Two books. One straight from the Pathfinder SRD and the other from all other 3rd Party spells. Both books cover Cantrips, 0-level spells.
The Pathfinder book has 15 spells at 18 pages. The Third Party book has 123 spells at 46 pages. Fully hyperlinked index and full OGL. Very useful for every Pathfinder GM and for witch characters.



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Echelon Reference Series: Alchemist (3pp+PRD)
by Thilo G. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 10/08/2018 07:59:22

An Endzeitgeist.com review

This massive installment of the Echelon Reference Series clocks in at 192 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page blank, 9 pages of SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with a whopping 178 pages of content, at least for the PRD +3pp version. The PRD-version is, obviously, less hefty, though still a pretty big file.

This review was moved up in my reviewing queue as a prioritized review at the request of my patreons.

So, first things first – this is a reference work and I will rate it as such. This book focuses on the alchemist and my review is based on the iteration that is based on both PRD and 3pp-material from a wide array of different sources. There are basically three different steps of completion for Echelon Reference Series-pdfs: They grow, and once they have grown, their price goes up as they become more refined – rather fair, at least in my book.

There are three steps: RAF (Rough and Fast, 50% discounted), WIP (Work in Progress, 25% discounted) and the finished version.

However, the “Rough and Fast” or “Work in Progress” monikers are actually a bit deceptive, in that they usually conjure forth images of Beta-tests for video games etc. – this is nothing like that.

Even the Rough and Fast versions already have full functionality provided, with bookmarks, etc. – but a couple of the unique comfort functions of the series are not yet implemented in these versions. Most importantly, the RAF-version does not yet include the super-handy flow-charts that depict the connections between feats, talents and similar class features. These have proven to be particularly helpful when building characters or planning progressions.

The RAF-version also does not yet feature full, internal hyperlinking (though there are plenty of working ones!), although it should be noted that navigation is sufficiently convenient, courtesy of the bookmarks provided.

We begin this time around with the alchemist base class and the archetypes collated and collected from various sources among the more refined 3pps as well as the Paizo books. The version, right now, goes up to ACG and provides a solid selection of different archetypes. The astute reader will also notice something subtle, but it really does enhance the aesthetic value of the file: You see, Echelon Reference books provide small bubbles on top of the colored ability-headers: one of these designates the ability type (like SP, SU, EX…) and one the level it’s gained. This is a small thing, but it makes navigation quicker and allows for faster information processing while reading. In this supplement, that presentation has undergone a slight, but efficient evolution: The bubbles no longer jut forth from the ability header, but instead have been integrated into it. They still have a white background, which sets them apart in a distinct fashion from the core abilities and thus retain functionality – but as a whole, they make everything look smoother. Kudos! Even better, and this is a HUGE improvement and comfort plus, would be the fact that now, these bubbles have a second part, which, if applicable, notes the ability an archetype class feature, for example, replaces. This adds another layer of comfort on top and is something I absolutely ADORE! Huge plus for the time-starved gamer here!

The master chymist prestige class included does btw. also come with the handy “class at a glance” box that the series provides for the base classes.

These improvements in presentation btw. also extend to the class features and how they are presented: It will take you only a single glimpse to immediately know that a discovery pertains to bombs, mutagens, and exclusive discoveries that prevent other discoveries are similarly apparent at a glance. I frickin’ love these improvements to the presentation. They make the supplement more aesthetically-pleasing AND even easier to navigate and use! Heck yes! Oh, and did I mention that we get a bullet point quick use version for the discoveries in front of the big text? A boiled down “at a glance” version? This adds serious value to the reference file. To give you an example of such a bullet point array before the full text, let’s take Dual Mind:

Gain +2 bonus on Will saving throws. On failed save, can try again one round later at same DC. Usable only if there are uses of mutate ability remaining.

Prerequisites Alchemist level 10th

See what I mean? All there. The proper, big rules text is still there, but this presentation type can make running the game so much easier, as the pdf acts as a huge GM (r player!) cheat sheet! I love this. Seriously. Can we please have more of these?

The feat section and spell list is handy, and, as always, we have a significant collection of statblocks, ranging from CR ½ to CR 20, with Bassam the Pestilent, a ratfolk plaguebringer, getting stats for every single level – in addition to the other NPC-stats, of course!

Conclusion:

Editing and formatting are top-notch considering that this is the first iteration, I noticed no grievous glitches. Layout adheres to the functional and efficient 2-column b/w-standard with brown spliced in, and as noted, the improvements to the layout prove to be extremely helpful for the book AND make it more pleasing to the eye. This is a pretty printer-friendly file, just fyi. The pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience, with individual bookmarks for the archetypes, for example, but not for every single feat or discovery. The book is internally hyperlinked and the index further helps making navigation simple and painless.

Keith J. Davies’ alchemist reference pdf is a surprising evolution for the series that I did not expect. The improvements in layout extend the appeal of the installment significantly: Instead of being “just” a handy reference file, the streamlined presentation and bullet point ability summaries manage to make this a massive and impressive cheat-sheet as well! It may sound weird, but once you try it out, you’ll realize how much sense the organization and presentation like this makes, how useful it can be when you forgot the precise details of an obscure discovery in the midst of battle and don’t want to read the whole text – one glance and, BAM, you’re ready to rock! This is a thoroughly impressive, welcome and well-crafted evolution of the series and its presentation paradigms, and as such, my final verdict will clock in at 5 stars + seal of approval.

Endzeitgeist out.



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