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All Flesh Must Be Eaten Character Journal
 
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All Flesh Must Be Eaten Character Journal
Publisher: Eden Studios
by Timothy B. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 11/11/2014 12:44:47

The AFMBE Character Journal is one of those products that is quite literally great on paper, but must better as a PDF resource. Why? Because for the price of the PDF and printer ink I can print out as many as I like. I can reorder pages, print multiple pages and assemble it all as needed. Typically that is a 3-ring binder with extra pages of paper. This journal follows in the same great level of artistic style that we come to expect from Eden. It looks like a spiral notebook, like the kind a zombie hunter might keep in a back pocket. But instead of lists of kills or notes on how to kill what supernatural beastie, this has all the information you need for your character. Plenty of room for qualities, drawbacks, skills and notes. And of course pages dedicated to weapons and gear. There is even a place to record how to kill what supernatural beastie.

It would also work good for WitchCraft or any of the other Classic Unisystem games, but no dedicated pages for Metaphysics.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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All Flesh Must Be Eaten Character Journal
Publisher: Eden Studios
by Alexander L. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 10/08/2013 07:23:11

Originally posted at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2013/10/08/tabletop-review-all-flesh-must-be-eaten-character-journal/

The All Flesh Must Be Eaten Character Journal is an odd duck. It basically amounts to an eighteen page character sheet, which just might be the longest one ever created for a game. Now, I’m a big fan of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and I try to review everything that comes out for it, like last month’s Band of Zombies, but this is the first ever release for the system where I honestly can’t think of any time I would ever use it.

Now, granted, we all need character sheets for our various games, be they printed off official versions or just written hastily on notebook paper. The problem is, I can’t think of a time you would want to have an eighteen page character sheet. Sure, the Character Journal gives you a lot of room to take notes on the events of your character’s life, but so much of the Character Journal is just unneeded space due to a character sheet for AFMBE being spread out from one page to eighteen. Do we really need two pages just for skills? A full page for Qualities? A full page for drawbacks? An entire page for weapons? How about that page where you just list the amount of ammo you have? No, you will NEVER need that much space. Oddly enough, you only get a tiny sticky note size space to write up your character’s personality. Obviously this Character Journal was not well thought out as, if anything, that’s where people need the extra room. I was glad to see a full page for character history, but that’s about the only thing about the Character Journal I think was done right.

I’m not sure why anyone would want to keep track of every zombie they have ever killed. That seems a little OCD/anal retentive, but you have a full page for that. Same with the space for tracking every head shot your character has ever made. That seems unnecessary and a little bit psychotic to boot. Basically, the Character Journal takes eighteen pages to do what you normally can do in just one or two pages, and that feels like a waste of paper, ink, and time to me. I would never even think of using this, nor can I think of any tabletop game where I would have the desire to need or want a sixteen page character sheet and two pages to act as covers for it. Now, if you CAN get use out of this, more power to you, but it seems fundamentally worthless to me. The more pages a character sheet is, the harder it is to find the information you are looking for, the more resources it wastes, and the easier it is to lose a page. The PDF version of the Character Journal isn’t an interactive version, allowing you to type information in or click a button to check things off (like the ammo), so you can’t use it digitally at all. You still have to print it off and handwrite everything on it, making it outdated and not very useful if you’re trying to stay electronic.

Obviously, this is not a release for me. It’s a product I neither understand nor can fathom how anyone would want such a thing. That said, the cover art is nice, the product is well laid out for something that spreads a one page character sheet over sixteen pages, and it is a neat idea for those that are pretty much only playing All Flesh Must Be Eaten and have characters in campaigns that will be going for years. Again, if you can find a use for this thing, good for you, because I can’t. My advice is just to print off a character sheet for the game, as it’s a saner alternative. The production values are high and I’m sure someone somewhere will get a kick out of this; it’s just not for me in any way, shape or form.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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All Flesh Must Be Eaten Character Journal
Publisher: Eden Studios
by Megan R. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 10/05/2013 10:53:16

This is a detailed, elegant character log - it's far more than a mere 'character sheet' - that will let you record every detail of your All Flesh Must Be Eaten character. After all, it may be his only memorial.

It is presented well, with good effects from crumpled and bent edges to notes attached with paper clips. However, PDF technology has not been utilised to enable you to type and save your notes. You'll have to print it out and write on it.

If you use Adobe Reader, however, you can open the Comment section and use the Text tool in the Annotate menu to add your notes directly. Remember to save a copy of the PDF under a different filename first, so that you can repeat the exercise if (when?) your current character succombs to zombie jaws. This works quite well, although you need to be careful about positioning your text to appear just where you want it.

As a fully-detailed character log this is a good one... just hope that your character survives at least as long as it takes you to fill it out!



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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