Red Steel (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Tim Beach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994 | Series: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition

Great book

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Har/Com/Ma edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560768959
• ISBN-13: 978-1560768951
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,780,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Spaniards invade Mystara, May 20, 2000

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Alex (College Park, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Steel (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

A large part of this campaign's background constitutes what I consider to be one of the most unoriginal settings ever gotten to print. This setting seems to promote wholesale dumping of real- world history into a fictional setting. Not only is this extremely contrived, but it also is an insult to role-players' creativity in general. The "setting" is thinly disguised Central America of approximately sixteenth/seventeenth centuries, spiced with mutations. Pretty much everything is named in very generic Spanish (White Mountain, Blue House, Long River). Most of the campaign seems to emphasize recovery of treasure left by the long-gone Aztec-like culture. There is hardly any role-playing at all: virtually the entire campaign screams "combat-oriented dungeon crawl". The Legacies resulting from the ever-present "Red Curse" are somewhat interesting, but the setting hardly tangles with the implications of wide-spread mutations. A very poor job from TSR.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it's a good value, June 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Steel (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

The Red Steel boxed set is one of the neatest and most colorful campaign settings TSR has ever introduced. It's right up there with the Realms and Dark Sun in complexity and creativity, although it's much, MUCH smaller.

The cover may look corny (and the enclosed CD certainly is!), but the innate powers called Legacies, (which can allow fighters to toss off multiple (low-level) spell effects per round, and make wizards and monsters very unpredictable indeed) are worth the price in and of themselves.

My only complaint is that it is built from the nations in an old part of the Mystara world from D&D (note the "A" missing). Info on the rest of the world, for continuity-loving DMs like myself, is VERY hard to come by, since most of that stuff has been out of print for five years or more. Still, don't let it keep you from buying this set. It's great!