- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; illustrated edition edition (31 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1588461653
- ISBN-13: 978-1588461650
- Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 21.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,907,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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My first impressions are good with this book, like all of Sword & Sorcery's Hardbacks, it is in a Core Rulebook style, the page borders are black, grey and white in the Scarred Lands format, and the layout is good, with good black and white artwork throughout.
The first chapter is an 11 page treatise of the history between the Gods and Titans of the Scarred Lands Setting by Swords And Sorcert, whom this book is devoted to.
Chapter two gives information on the Gods of the Scarred Lands setting, detailing bothe the gods themselves, their mortal followers, their Pages (mortal Representives of the gods), Heralds and Avaters, not to mention artifacts devoted to each God.
Chapter three details the Demi-Gods, much the same way as chapter two.
Chapter four is my favourite, Divine Gifts, new domains and new Divine Spells and Rituals (for information on Rituals you will need S&S brillant Relics & Rituals Corebook).
Chapter five details The Earth Mother, a Titan who sided with the Gods in the War between the two groups which is the whole core of the Scarred Lands setting, not someone to be crossed by Players.
Chapter six details the Defeated, the Titans who lost the war against the Gods, it give details on their history, their fate, and their followers.
Chapter seven details Artifacts, Spells and other items made or influanced by the Titans, which are very useful.
A nice touch with this book is a Scarred Lands Character Sheet at the back, most usefull.
Overall a well written book ,which with a little tweaking any part of can easily be adopted to other settings, especially the Spells and Artifacts.
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Changed my mind about Scarred Lands
27 Nov 2002
Originally, I was going to incorporate some of the Scarred Lands materials (Hollowfaust, Relics and Rituals, many of the monsters from the Creature Collections) into my own campaign world. I bought this to help me flesh out some ideas about gods and religions and the history of my campaign world.
I'm a Scarred Lands convert now.
This is the best sourcebook I have _ever_ read about a pantheon. Much more than just the stats and a blurb (like most books), this contains tremendous amounts of coherent background material, excellent descriptions of the gods, titans, servitors and religions. And like much of the Sword and Sorcery works, it is very well thought and internally consistent.
This book was enough to get me to purchase the Ghelspad campaign setting (another story and another review, but also excellent), and was good enough for me to use lock, stock and barrel. What is nice about this work (like many other Sword and Sorcery work) is that it could be used outside of the Scarred Lands with minimal work - and that is a serious boon to the many busy GMs out there.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great Gods!
31 Dec 2001
Divine and Defeated is a truly epic work about the gods of the Scarred Lands. The deities are well thought out with a CONSISTENT background that is both detailed and open enough for a G.M. to use in almost any plot that can be imagined. All the gods and titans are given a standard layout with a large amount of easily found detail. If you intend to use a Scarred Lands setting i would rate this as {5 STARS}. As a resource for other campaign worlds, it's a bit limited. Unless you intend to drop the entire pantheon into your campaign each god you do use will need some surgery on his history. Which defeats some of the purpose of buying a book with such detail. What makes it useful for other games is that {Divine and the Defeated} can show a G.M. the right way to create a pantheon. The Scarred Lands are supposed to be 3E with a 1st feel. I would say they succeeded admirably.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Excellent
31 Dec 2001
This book is a must-have if you are a fan of the Scarred Lands setting, being chocked full of information about not only the divine avatars and the titans, but demigods as well. It also introduces the notion of Divine Heralds and Pages, the more potent servitors of the gods. Interspersed with the text about the gods are several major and minor artifacts with a backstory and indicators of the roles they have placed in the world. Perhaps most impressive, however, are the several new divine spell domains presented. These are an excellent addition, and are useful for rounding out the powers of clerics and gods in other campaign settings. In all, I strongly recommend this book; it is very well written, the art is excellent, the material is absolutely imperative if you run a Scarred Lands game, and much of the content is useful even to other campaign worlds.
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