A very interesting, offbeat setting for Monsters! Monsters! (also usable with its progenitor, Tunnels & Trolls). The author manages to provide a world in which your players can run amok as monsters without feeling too bad about it, since most of the "good guys" are total jerks. The supplement also provides plenty of details for interesting encounters, adventure seeds, and places for your PCs to rest and recuperate. If you are at all interested in playing M!M! or T&T with monstrous characters, check this out.

Here's something new! There have been a few campaign settings for the Tunnels & Trolls suite of games, but not many. What makes this one stand out is not simply because it has added to the pool but because it is usable with- nay, designed specifically to go with, the Monsters! Monsters! variant of T&T. That makes it a very rare beast indeed.

Uprising at Buzzard's Gulch Monster Rez (Rez, as in Reservation) is a setting guide and adventure seed set in a world (or part of Trollworld?) where humans and monsters live side by side- providing the monsters go back to the Reservation come nighttime. The title uses language redolent of the Wild West and this puts you right into the zone for this setting. But as we are playing Monsters! Monsters! here an the player-characters are supposed to be the bad guys, does that make the humans the goodies? Well, nope. The humans have, afterall herded up the monsters and put them in a reservation, and are exploiting them for their own gain. And now it seems, the monsters have had enough!

So what do you get for your money? Author, Thessaly Chance Tracy and publisher, Peryton Games give you a 93 page setting, nicely illustrated (the cover by Simon Lee Tranter is great), edited by the Troll Godfather himself and a minion called Monkey. The action is set on an island and can therefore be smuggled into most campaigns. There are maps, npcs a plenty, descriptions of places of note, the High City of Hylax, villages of The Rez, bars, brothels, revolting swampy areas that humans will hate but monsters (some of them) will enjoy. There are lists of foodstuffs, potions, diseases, random encounters, tribes of goblins and quite a few wicked and devious humans. As you'd expect there's a little history too. But there's more: new spells, new monsters, new kin and some extra rules for the Monsters! Monsters! game including monster talents and motivations.

The tone of the whole thing is as whimsical as one might expect for a T&T product and with an undercurrent of darkness. You get the feeling this town is gonna blow! There are some really noteble NPCs too. My favourites are Grimlar Steele, a mechanical monster who lives at the castle and Granny Grisstletit, a Madam, business woman of repute and potion brewer on the side.

There's a lot packed into these pages and yet the author hasn't fallen into the trap, as some campaign settings do, of getting bogged down in too much detail and history. Each place is described with brevity. Giving the GM easily enough to go on but at the same time, plenty of room for his/her own take on things. Altogether, a really nice package and a great addition to the Monsters! Monsters! and Tunnels & Trolls universe.

Written as a labor of love and it shows.

A veteran player of T&T and Monsters, Monsters, this is a compilation of everything good from through the years.

As a campaign setting it excels at showing the knowledge, flexibility and possibilities at a monster campaign. Yes, you play the monsters vs the real monsters, those dwarves and pesky intolerant humans. There is a wealth of possibilites at what you can do here and a number of specific adventures following soon.

I cannot recommend this product highly enough to give you a setting to use where you like to give all role players the great experience that they desire and maybe did not even know they were missing yet.

I am so looking forward to the following part.