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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An enjoyable and interesting read but lacking..., 16 Dec 2005
By A Customer
I found the book to be a good read and full of interesting bits for these gamers with a love of the fiends of the D&D world, giving rules for using all the current Archfiends of the Nine Hells, and several of the Abyss. It also contain information on a new set of evil spells including an entirely new form of component: corruption spells, where the caster suffers ability damage for casting the spell, but the spell is far more powerful than normal, including the spell 'Apocalypse from the sky', a spell than rains death in a radius of miles.
The book also gives mnay new prestige classes devoted to the archfiends, fiend summoning, and general darkness, but no new base classes. It does however give rules on possession, sacrifices, new poisons and diseases and a variation on diseases: drug addiction. However as stated before there are no new classes, the new fiends in the monster section feel lacking with the exception of the Bar-lgura, many of the new artifacts feel tacked on as copies of old ones given evil flavour, several of the new magic weapons properties are not impressive and some of the arch fiend stats do not seem impressive at all. As to the mature rating, other than the stuff other people have said in reviews, it is given because the law in America means Wizards of the Coast cannot depict stuff like half-naked humanoids(as in bottom half clothed and the other not) without giving it a mature rating, and this sort of illustration appears in the book. Overall a good read with lots of information on evil in gD&D games, but seems to be lacking real depth.
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by Andy Collins
