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Allies & Adversaries is a soft cover book of by Bastion Press that boasts a full color cover and full color interior art on slick paper. It is 32-pages in length (but there are no page numbers) and has a retail price of $14.95. Allies & Adversaries reminds me a lot of the old ‘Rogues Gallery’ that you might remember from many years ago. It contains full stat blocks, backgrounds and equipment for fifteen characters that can be used for players that might just be filling in for one adventure and don’t have the time or inclination to roll up a brand new character or used as NPC villains to pester your party with. They could also serve as new regular player characters with no problem at all. The artwork is better than good, it’s marvelous. Each character is accompanied by a gorgeous picture that really brings them to life. An absolutely awesome job was done here! Character levels range from 10 to 20 with seven of the characters being multi-classed and the average level being 14 th . The book is completely usable with just the core D&D books as none of the Prestige classes On the alignment end of things you’ll find 6 Good, 6 Evil and 3 Neutral so things are spread around pretty well. The backgrounds are developed enough so that someone could easily jump into the role of one of these characters, but not be so locked into that an evolution of their personality could not take place. Spell lists and magic items are also fully listed and seem very reasonable for their levels. Since we don’t run evil characters I would, as a DM, find use for the evilaligned characters solely as villains, but that’s where the ‘adversaries’ part of the title comes in. Allies & Adversaries has done a lot of work for the DM and other than the super high quality of the book, in all areas, I would say that it’s absolute best quality would be as a tool to easily get a new player, or a bunch, into your game. Character creation can be tedious, especially to new players, and these give them something to jump right in with. Definitely thumbs up! WWW.BASTIONPRESS.COM
go goffy on you and you end up in The Second World where things just keep bending your mind. The Second World is closer to a modern Dungeons and Dragons game or a way high fantasy D20 Modern setting. Either way you look at it, Elvis has left the building. Or maybe he just strode back through the front door, but now he’s a Hobgoblin. You’ll also notice that a large portion of the text is written from a 1 st -person (the author’s) perspective. This took just a little getting used to, but really made the whole book feel like the author was talking directly to you and explaining things as he went along. Kind of like you sitting down with him as he describes this new game setting. The chapter on Characters presents a handful of new races, that I really wish there had been pictures of but the text descriptions are passable, and a host of background options of who your character was before making the jump to The Second World. BASICS The Second World Sourcebook (TSWS) is the newest d20 supplement from Second World Simulations and is quite interesting indeed, but more on that later. TSWS is a hefty 288-page softcover book with a color cover and a very sparse amount of black and white interior artwork. It provides players with an alternate, but more than slightly skewed, version of Earth to play in. It has a retail price of $29.95 USD and the back cover indicates that it requires the use of both d20 Modern and Dungeons and Dragons. BETWEEN THE COVERS The first section of TSWS sets up the campaign setting of this ‘alternate’ Earth and does so in a really fun to read ‘in-your-face’ kind of way. I found this section, which takes up about a fifth of the book, to be just plain great. What is ‘The Second World’? How did it come into being? Well, that’s not 100% clear except that it’s a less than exact high-fantasy with a modern twist version of Earth, but not totally. It’s hard to explain what it is. What it isn’t is boring and predictable. Ok, the First World, our world, would be akin to a d20 Modern world where things are mostly right, but sometimes things just Wardens, the third chapter, are kind of like Prestige Classes that are a new type of spellcaster of which there are multiple (Dream, Feral, Flesh, Lightning, Metal, Motion, Shadow, and Vector) varieties and a new system for using magic with lots of Bindings (sort of like spells). The Equipment and Opponents section are the smallest in the book, but they give you a good enough sense of how things work in The Second World. Here’s where you’ll notice The Second World having a greater influence from D&D, but I really think you could get by with either set of rules. VALUE While billed as a supplement for both Dungeons and Dragons and d20 Modern I found that you could probably get by with either set of rules and my greatest use of this book would be in the d20 Modern system. This is not to say that it would not be useful in a Dungeons and Dragons game, because it certainly could be, but I just found the concept of an alternate world more practical to a d20 Modern setting. For about thirty buck this is an excellent supplement for DM’s that are looking for a campaign universe that’s just a bit more than a little different. WWW.SECOND-WORLD-SIMULATIONS.COM
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