Reading the old Scarlet Brotherhood 2e Greyhawk supplement by Sean K.
Reading the old Scarlet Brotherhood 2e Greyhawk supplement by Sean K. Reynolds. My interest in Greyhawk comes mostly from the fact that Paizo's writers were huge Greyhawk nerds and inserted so many nerdy little details into their Dungeon Magazine adventure paths. Shackled City and Savage Tide were set in the far south near the Amedio Jungle. The Amedio was only really detailed in the Lost Shrine of Tamoachan before Sean K. Reynolds wrote this book in 1999.
So in this book we get full details on the Scarlet Brotherhood, colonial fantastic racists and eugenicists. They're excellent bad guys. Slavers, spies, assassins, and evil monks.
We also have tons of detail on the Olman, the fantasy Aztecs of Oerth. The Olman worship the Aztec pantheon, which are the actual Aztec gods. The gods home plane is "an alternate prime material plane."
The Touv are also introduced in this book. They are badass fantasy Africans. We get complete descriptions of their pantheon and lands.
The art is pretty dang good too. The scan on Drivethrurpg is pretty crappy though. I hope they update it.
So in this book we get full details on the Scarlet Brotherhood, colonial fantastic racists and eugenicists. They're excellent bad guys. Slavers, spies, assassins, and evil monks.
We also have tons of detail on the Olman, the fantasy Aztecs of Oerth. The Olman worship the Aztec pantheon, which are the actual Aztec gods. The gods home plane is "an alternate prime material plane."
The Touv are also introduced in this book. They are badass fantasy Africans. We get complete descriptions of their pantheon and lands.
The art is pretty dang good too. The scan on Drivethrurpg is pretty crappy though. I hope they update it.
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The Greyhawk stuff that started coming out toward the end of 2E's lifespan was pretty cool. I remember this being the book that reintroduced the monk and assassin classes to AD&D 2E.
ReplyDeleteIf this is the level of quality, I'll have to check out the rest.
ReplyDeleteThe art in that book is better than the rest, I think.
ReplyDeleteScarlet Brotherhood is a very special case.
ReplyDeleteWell, there's the Gazeteer, which I throughly enjoyed, but apart from that, not much, for the last stuff they put out.
Sean did most of the best work in the 1998-2000 Greyhawk relaunch. Scarlet Brotherhood was the best, but Slavers (also Sean) was also a very solid book, a sprawling sandbox mini-campaign before things like that were fashionable. The individual adventure modules were kind of boring grinds, and Roger Moore's The Adventure Begins was awful, but I thought those two products were worth the rest of the relaunch.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to pick that up too. Sean's expanded Against the Giants campaign is what my current ACKS game is based on.
ReplyDeleteCasey Garske I read that on the way back from the Gen Con when it was released in '99. Sean signed my copy of AtG and SB.
ReplyDeleteSweet! I rode with him in an elevator at Gen Con in 2002 I think, but I didn't fan-boy.
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