Table of Contents - Mega Miniatures

entry in ‘Arms & Armor’. This is really not too big of a deal
because I’m sure that all of us know what a machete and
small flail look like. Some of the weapons do run to the
more fantastic side of things, but it’s easy enough for your
DM to say yes/no to whatever he wants to allow into his
campaign. There’s also over one-hundred new qualities
for magic weapons that will really throw your players for a
loop the first time they fire up an Acidic / Dark Burst
longsword! Next up are a whole slew of class oriented
weapons. All of the basic classes from the Player’s Hand
Book get something, but Barbarians kind of got the short
end of the stick with just one entry. The Optional Rules
are pretty interesting. They include rules for the
advancement of intelligent weapons, the ability of double
weapons to separate into two weapons, and extraordinary
special purposes for your most prized toys. Some of
these abilities are pretty brutal, but they all also come with
pretty hefty caster level requirements and, of course, will
require DM approval. The new Armor section is really
cool. It lists armors from the fairly mundane (Holy Robes)
to the exotic (Glacier Beast Armor). There are only a
couple of shields, but you’ll find well over one-hundred
armor qualities, choices galore! Like with the weapon
section you’ll also find several class oriented suits of
armor. The new rules section for armor introduce armor
as a damage reducer rather than something that
increases your Armor Class. Additionally, there are rules
to use shields for parries. There’s also a handful of new
constructs with CR’s ranging from three to fourteen.
Last issue we took a look at ‘Minions’ from Last Bastion
Press. This time we have two tomes from them, the first
of which is ‘Arms & Armor’.
BASICS
‘Arms & Armor’ is a 96-page perfect bound full color book
that retails for $24.95. It is more than just an exhaustive
list of a bunch of new weapons and suits or armor. It has
those, of course, but also gets into some new artifacts,
masks, new constructs and rules new optional rules
covering weapons and armor.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
The interior of the book is laid out in a very easy to read
fashion. There are many tables that are also very easy to
read, but there was one table where the shading doesn’t
quite match up to the text. I’m not sure if this is common
to the book itself or just my copy. If you took a look at
‘Minions’ you’ll find stuff from that book making an
appearance here also. The Nightling Cleaver is one of my
favorites.
The first section of the book is Arms and it contains
dozens of new weapons to butcher your enemies with.
Unlike ‘Minions’ there is not a picture to accompany every
VALUE
Like ‘Minions’, ‘Arms & Armor’ will set you back about
twenty-five dollars. Being full color and nicely illustrated is
a definite plus. I think that a lot of its content would be
better used in a campaign of higher power levels, but
there is certainly a lot for any player or GM to find. I’d
liken it a bit to ‘Magic of Faerun’, just without the spells
and centered wholly on weapons and armor. There’s
nothing that I
found that
singularly made it
stand out as a
‘must buy’, but I
also found no
specific reason to
pass it by either. I
see it as a good
all around
addition to your
d20 library.
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