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Large Man with Dead Body: Who's that then?
The Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king.
Large Man with Dead Body: Why?
The Dead Collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.
-"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
And while the joke had been made before, that's Warhammer Fantasy in a nutshell; a world in which shit not only exists, but in which player characters can actually take up a career in its collection. (No lie. You can now, as of Forges of Nuln, start your adventuring career off as a Dung Collector.)
The Career Compendium is a compilation of every career created for the second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play - it's a player resource, so that you can browse through and pick up whichever career strikes your fancy - everything from the low trades that you would never see in Dungeons & Dragons (Dung Collector, Lamplighter, Mate, Sheperd, Man Covered In Shit) to realistic professions of the Middle Ages (Barber-Surgeon, Noble, Minstrel, Noble With Shit On Him) t ... [read full review]
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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I'm normally pretty reluctant to slam the work of a single author, as is the case here; Jennifer Brozek is responsible for the entirety of Proverbial Monsters, so she gets to claim the lion's share of praise or opprobrium from its reviews. However, what she's done is essentially write a Shadowrun supplement in the New World of Darkness, two great tastes that go together under no circumstances whatsoever. (Actually, I have a profound antipathy for Shadowrun, but that's neither here nor there.) Once you realize that she's doing that, the utterly bizarre nature of the creatures, and the assumptions that surround them, become much more understandable. My original review contained a lot of sputtering and flailing and invocations of the luminescent, wabbling severed upside-down head of Bob Dylan, but I rewrote it slightly after I realized what was going on.
First off, the monsters in question aren't proverbial, but instead derive from superstition; if you violate the superstition, you inv ... [read full review]
Rating:  [1 of 5 Stars!] |
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Role-playing has been raiding historical mythology for as long as it's been around; the Monster Manual cheerfully grabs monsters from dozens of different mythologies and slaps them into a single setting. You want German and Egyptian mythologies in the same dungeon, throw in some kobolds on the top level and a sphinx on the sixth. Wicked Dead does the same thing, and that's kind of the tragedy. Allow me to explain.
If you look at the various iterations of Vampire, they essentially synthesize about four hundred years worth of vampire mythology into something that allows you to simulate dozens of different kinds of vampires into a single whole. Instead of having a unique kind of vampire whose entire schtick is turning into a wolf, you have the Animalism discipline, and you can turn it into a Bloodline if you make it particularly specialized. That way, you don't have dozens of different kinds of vampires who share disparate origins and powers.
Wicked Dead kind of turns bac ... [read full review]
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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If the music industry had developed along the same lines as role-playing had, it would look very much like a world in which every new band's ambition was to remake Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. Not to innovate from it, or to reinterpret it through a dramatically different lens, or to take the next step forward and make something new using it as a base; no, the overall intention would be to produce something that sounded almost exactly like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but with different instruments and maybe a dfifferent singer. Hip-hop, country, metal, ambient, death metal, prog rock, emo - there'd be a little of that. But everybody who listened to music would have their first project be a remake of something that's already been done just fine. You wouldn't even get an attempt to replicate Abbey Road or Let It Be, because, after all, they didn't listen to those albums first.
I can live with Castles & Crusades because Castles & Crusades is an attempt to deliberatel ... [read full review]
Rating: [1 of 5 Stars!] |
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