Table of Contents - Mega Miniatures

About the minions of the villains as really good bad guys
must have lackeys to help them in their diabolical plans.
Out of the twenty presented in the book my two favorites
right now are The Xyryth, a fiendish dire shark (yikes!) that
lies in wait until the time is right to eat, and eat, and eat,
and eat! I’m sure that recently finishing the books ‘Meg’
and ‘The Trench’ by Steve Alten didn’t hurt. Check them
out. Tsystalor Krune is also quite cool. He was created
by an evil god to stalk the world and destroy all of the
good and happy people. That’s what makes the god of
nightmares feel all warm and fluffy on the inside. He’s one
bad mutha!
Our second review for this issue from the guys at Bastion
Press is ‘Villains’.
BASICS
Like ‘Arms & Armor’, ‘Villains’ is also a 96-page perfect
bound book with a soft cover. It also retails for $24.95
USD and also gives you more than just what the name
might imply.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
As far as layout, readability, and artwork I’ve found all of
the products that I’ve seen from Bastion Press to be the
same. That means that I’ve found them all easy on the
eyes and not lacking in these areas.
Like I said, ‘Villains’ gives you more than just a line-up of
evil-doers to smack your PC’s around with. You get a
handful of new spells and a couple of pages of new magic
items (most suitable for those who have chosen the
darkside), but the kicker for me are, you guessed it, the
prestige classes. There’s only four presented in the book
and they are labeled as being ‘villainous’ but I can see
them making an appearance into just about any campaign
with relative ease. Out of the four (Bloodtracker – a
bounty hunter, Dinosaur Cultist – dino-druid, Gutter
Stalker – homeless killers of small stature, and Sea
Reavers – Piratey guys) my favorite has got to be the
Dinosaur Cultists. Ok, so you get yourself eaten by a T-
Rex and maybe the dinosaur god decides that it likes you
so big ma-fugly pukes you up and now you’re accepted as
one of them. Awesome! You’ll also find a single new
monster for use against high level parties (see below for a
pic of the beastie).
VALUE
This book can go a long way towards saving DM’s a lot of
time when it comes to fleshing out new adversaries. Not
just stats, but motivations and their history also. I’m all for
anything that does this and does so with quality results.
I’m very happy with ‘Villains’. Also, check out their
website for some extra ‘e-villains’ that didn’t get put into
the book.
Inside you’ll find twenty new villains to menace your player
characters. They range from humans, to humanoids, to
monsters and each entry gives not only their familiar stat
block, but also nicely detailed appearance information
(along with a picture for each bad guy for you to show
your players), a section on their history (which can pretty
easily be brought into your own campaign world), their
personality (just why do the bad guys do the things they
do), how they like to fight and how to use them in Low,
Medium, and High level games. They also contain details
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