It wouldn’t be the awards without a submission from Triple Ace, and
this year is no different. This time it’s
the second expansion for the Hellfrost setting.
It’s not a massive book,
totalling around a hundred and twenty pages, made up primarily of new
organisations and new creatures for the players to deal with. There’s a short
section for the players detailing new Hindrances, Gear, backgrounds and spells,
but it takes up around 10% of the book, with the rest of it being things to
help the GM’s out.
Production values are good, well laid out and presented in a fashion
that even if you’re not using Savage worlds, you can still get something out of
the material as it is. The organisations
are interesting (particular favourites being the Thirteen warriors) and have
enough information to make them interesting without going into over
explaining. The Bestiary is the last
third of the book and contains everything from Big Dogs to an interesting
section on all the different Golems that characters might encounter.
There’s a reasonable amount of artwork in the book and all of it is
relevant to the section that it’s in. Beyond the cover, everything is black and
white, but it’s good quality artwork and enough to keep the book from being walls
of text.
Given that the book is an expansion, it’s difficult to put a mark on
how useful it is for the game, but the quantity and quality of material in here
is sufficient that all judges could see that it would be a good source of ideas
for any game they ran.
And with that, on to the Judges comments
Any book with Demonic Excrementals and the thirteenth warrior can’t be
a bad thing...
It’s a good concise book with plenty to keep both GMs and Players busy
but I’d like to have seen more of it...
Liked the mythical north feel to the book, very much has the feel of an
undiscovered country to it...
