Nice. Very nice. As with all the Planescape books I've downloaded from RPGNow, I bought this solely for the source material. Since I don't use the old 2nd edition rules, I could care less about the adventures that come packaged with it and have yet to even read them. As the title suggests, this box set is all about the fiends and their eternal Blood War. It gives a great rundown of the war's history as well as its tactics. The details about how the war is actually fought makes this set worth the purchase (again, for the price, it would have to be a pretty horrible collection of material for it not to be worthwhile). Not that I'd ever want to throw players into the middle of one of these engagements, but its nice to know what a battle between a rampaging horde of tanar'ri and a disciplined army of baatezu would actually look like. This set is a nice companion to the Faces of Evil:Fiends book as well. And as an added bonus, you get a DiTerlizzi illustrated comic book that was originally packaged with the box set. Nothing of earth shattering importance, but its always great to see a great artist's work displayed so prominently.
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