All these characters carry in them the unique foreboding mystery of the Beowful setting with backgrounds and art which alluded to both the fact and mythology of the Danes. While these may be 'just characters', I found the expanded the mood and fiction of the setting. And in the case of Wolf-Child introduces a warrior child who has pets (wolves) as followers. (If you have kid gamers, you know how important pets can be!) The only caution -if you are not up to speed on your Old Norse vocabulary or mythology, you may have to do what I did, and look up some words and name. (But no regrests, and I feel more Danish as a result! That's good, right? ) I paid the recommend $2.00 and feel it was coin well spent.

I played Maze Rats with my 9 year old with zero preperation. We usually play Heo Kids, but we wanted something a bit deeper. The random tables of Maze Rats allowed for quick world building. The trasure tables allowed us to 'sweep and clean' the basement of an random in and find a nice mixture of stuff. The monster tables allowed us to pull a suprising foe together which fit the scene well. And of course the random spell creation made for a truely unique magic. Colletively this gives Maze rates a deadly, high-magic fantazy world with it's own feel. We had so much fun! (And no minatures were needed!)