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What a great update to a great game! Monsters! Monsters! was a breakthrough in its time. Before the Reverse Dungeon, it let players play "The Other Side" as all sorts of fun creatures, making the lives of innocent villagers, uptight nobles, and self-important adventurers just as troublesome as they deserve.
Now we have a new updated version, after several decades! It's compatible with Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls, allowing all sorts of material developed for that game to be plug and play with this. plus, this material can all be dropped into dT&T! Add new monsters, more personalized monsters into dT&T, or, play the other side of the dungeon as the gamemaster sends adventurers in to loot your humble underground abode (or decaying castle, haunted wood, fetid swamp, fevered nightmare, or...You name it.)
The art and design are updated as well as the rules, giving a clean modern look to this great game. Magic for the creatures, and spells, are updated as well as po...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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I'm a sucker for "savage world"-type settings, so purchased this on a whim when it popped up. Review based on overall impressions after reading through; note that I haven't tried the game system or any of the publisher's other games.
Game system looks fairly streamlined. Skill-based with ability scores, on a d100 scale. There are no "classes", but characters can have "archetypes", which are Civilised, Barbarian, Nomad, or Primitive, and which determine starting skill point allocation. Alternatively, you can assign base skill points yourself and "roll your own". Checks involve rolling against your ability and skill scores with d100, and can be opposed.
The game world has all the standard Conan-type places and races (Cimmerians, Hyperboreans, Picts, Stygia, etc.) albeit set in an early version of "our" world map with areas corresponding to real countries. There is a bit of backstory about the rise and fall of the serp...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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