Legions Of Hell [Paperback]

Chris Pramas (Author), Brom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2001

Chris Pramas is going to Hell...again. The author of the popular AD&D Guide to Hell returns to the pit in this 64-page sourcebook. This time the focus is on the inhabitants of the nine layers. In Legions of Hell, you'll find page after page of new foes, stunningly illustrated by top artists in the field. Full d20 System stats make this book a must for the serious fantasy roleplayer.

Editorial Reviews

Review

In a word: Excellent. Easily one of the Top 10 D20 supplements released to date. -- Justin Bacon, RPG.net, October 17, 2001

It is one of the few d20 licensed supplements that stands on a par with the official WotC/Hasbro materials... -- RPGAction, September 4, 2001

Lots of wonderful new monsters...interesting concepts and well-done artwork...you will not be sorry you purchased this book. -- Monte Cook, co-designer 3rd Edition Dungeons and Dragons, August 10, 2001

About the Author

Chris Pramas has worked as a writer and game designer since 1993. He has written for such roleplaying games as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Feng Shui, Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, In Nomine, and Over the Edge. He designed the Origins Award-nominated Dragon Fist Roleplaying Game and the Origins Award-winning Death in Freeport adventure. As a game designer for Wizards of the Coast, he's written such AD&D books as the Guide to Hell, Slavers, and the Vortex of Madness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970104847
• ISBN-13: 978-0970104847
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Pramas is an award-winning game designer, writer, and publisher. He is best known as the designer of the Dragon Age RPG, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (second edition), and Freeport: The City of Adventure. He is also the founder and president of Green Ronin Publishing, a leading light in the world of pen and paper RPGs. Pramas got his start as a freelancer, writing books for such games as Over the Edge, Feng Shui, and Underground. He later spent four years as a staff designer at Wizards of the Coast, ending his tenure there as a creative director. More recently he's lent his talents to computer games, serving as creative director on the Pirates of the Burning Sea MMO RPG at Flying Lab Software and as lead writer on Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online at Vigil Games. Pramas continues to lead Green Ronin, and the company's successes include such games as DC Adventures, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, and Mutants & Masterminds.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Devilishly unrepentant, February 6, 2002

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Kendrik Lau (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legions Of Hell (Paperback)

In all of role playing history, demons and devils have always been one of the most popular foes that player characters have ever fought...as illustrated in classic Dungeons and Dragons modules in the past in which players are pitted against fiendish adversaries such as Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders; Zuggtmoy, Demoness Lady of Fungi; and even Orcus, the dead again and alive again Prince of the Undead. It has surprised me that it wasn't until now that a book dedicated entirely to these fiends came out.

Perhaps because TSR, the former company that publishes the Dungeons and Dragons game felt the heat from over zealous Bible thumpers who think the game promotes devil worship because of its description of devils and demons. So in the second edition, in an effort to appease a population who doesn't even buy the game, they eliminate them altogether. It was only through the outcry of TSR's customers that they crawled...under psuedonyms of baatezus and tanar'ri.

Well, third edition, under the d20 system and licence came out and they are back with a vengeance. They are now devils and demons with a capital D and and they comes completed with pentagrams and 666s.

"Legions of Hell", published by Green Ronin, describe the various devils that inhabit the Nine Hells. The cosmology of the Hells is closely related to the one presented by WOTC's Dungeons and Dragons game. In this book you will meet many never before seen devils such as the Ashmede, the Enforecers of Dis, the distender, the oubliette, as well as various dukes and counts that populate the devil's noble hierarchy such as Balan, Antaia, Furcas, Lel, Hadriel and Vuall (who bears a striking resemblance to Joe Camel), also fallen celestials like Iblis and Naamah. All of them illustrated, some of which resembles creations by H.R. Geiger.

As good as the book is, that is not to say there are stinkers, like Nergal (some fat slob squeezed into a suit of armor surronded by flies), the Faceless (a race of devil-assassins), the four handed vierhaander, and an unhealthy amount of attention being paid to the duchess Hadriel's many minions.

In all, "Legions of Hell" is something which is long awaited and is finally here. Hopefully, Green Ronin's follow up "Armies of the Abyss", which will feature demons, will not disappoint.

1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Hellish Creatures, January 28, 2002

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Jason A Helmer Wachina (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legions Of Hell (Paperback)

very excellent artwork, and very intersting creatures, i am looking forward to the release of armies of the abyss. Well worth the dollar.

0 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a review, but aquestion..., May 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Legions Of Hell (Paperback)

How doe's this book compare to the earlier edition "Guide to Hell"?