- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (1 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786928999
- ISBN-13: 978-0786928996
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,030,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is not, as it would first appear, a bestiary.
a bestiary does feature in the book, as it does in all D20 modern books, but this book is more for the GM that prefers to use mundanes against players.
The bestiary seems to be x-file oriented, with a great deal of aliens and 'paranormol' creatures that can be explined away without the use of magic.
The book features quite an extensive list of (fictional) terrorist organisations, such as the six fingered hand who want to save the world by destroying it, the Al-queda style faction who want to punish the western civilisation and the most enigmatic of them all, the CIA.
The book also features a few heroic GM characters, but they just don't seem to fit with any campaign that i try and run.
Not a bad book for the DM, but for a player it seems to be a waste, eventhough it does include a few new species for the player to be, but s/he has to search the bestiary for them.
a bestiary does feature in the book, as it does in all D20 modern books, but this book is more for the GM that prefers to use mundanes against players.
The bestiary seems to be x-file oriented, with a great deal of aliens and 'paranormol' creatures that can be explined away without the use of magic.
The book features quite an extensive list of (fictional) terrorist organisations, such as the six fingered hand who want to save the world by destroying it, the Al-queda style faction who want to punish the western civilisation and the most enigmatic of them all, the CIA.
The book also features a few heroic GM characters, but they just don't seem to fit with any campaign that i try and run.
Not a bad book for the DM, but for a player it seems to be a waste, eventhough it does include a few new species for the player to be, but s/he has to search the bestiary for them.
Format:Hardcover
Very easy to use, a great help for any GM struggling to create suitable / believble protagonists for any adventure. From simple creatures, to fully fleshed out characters and organisations.
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Allies and Adversaries
24 Sep 2003
Format:Hardcover
I bought this more on a whim but it has restarted my interest in d20 Modern. The book has three main sections which bear mentioning. First up is the critter book. No matter what kind of game you play critters are absolutely essential. There's something for virtually everyone in the first section. Alternity fans rejoice! You will old friends and foes in here as the Fraal return and are expanded slightly to make them available to UFO conspiracy enthusiasts as the enigmatic Greys. Weren are back as sasquatch with an interesting explanation on why their here. The weird winged humanoids have also returned to meet and in some cases become PCs. Next is a bunch of cardboard cut-outs for a given GM to play with in stock NPCs and they even gave some sample teams to possible use. Finally there is a faction book with real and made up organizations. Among the intriguing new comers are an extreme terrorist organization loosely based on Al-Qaeda and a bunch of would be world conquerors (Cooobraaaa! Whoops, wrong game ;)) as well as the American agencies CIA and FBI. Anyone interested in more adversaries and possible allies of any d20 Modern type campaign would be well served by this book. There are suggestions for some of the groups in the suggested campaigns or if you want to design your own campaign, this gives some more options, something that is always warranted.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
D20 modern menance manual
5 Dec 2003
Format:Hardcover
I thought this was a well-written, well-made book. It has a ton of information on so many different organizations that you should never run out of bad guys, though it would be fun to try. In addition to the info on the many organizations it has it's own monster manual. It would be nice to have picture of all the different baddies but there are only so many pages I guess. All in all I think this book would be very helpful to most campaigns.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
One of the most Important d20 modern books you could buy
14 Nov 2008
Format:Hardcover
Menace Manual is utterly full of all that you need to run a d20 Modern game filled with monsters, mobsters, and mayhem. It has beasts, undead, organizations, and lots and lots of imagination fodder. This product will get your mind going to jumpstart your modern campaign.
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