Pyramid Review: Spycraft RPG (for d20)

Pyramid Review

Spycraft RPG (for d20)

Published by Alderac Entertainment Group, Inc.

By Patrick Kapera and Kevin Wilson

Art by Storn Cook, Jonathan Hunt, A. Bleys Ingram, Garry McKee, Richard Pollard, Mike Sellers, Ethan Slayton, Dan Smith, Paul H. Way, and Jeff Wright

288 pages, hardbound, black and white; $34.95

Good evening, agent Gamesman. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is as follows:

Your cover will be that of an ordinary roleplayer in search of new and exciting material for a weekly social gaming event. Following this briefing, you should proceed immediately to the pickup point; the agency's offices use the front of a friendly local game store.

A training manual for use in educating new agents has surfaced, and Control requests that you intercept a copy. A team known only as Alderac Entertainment Group, Inc. designed this manual for use in conjunction with the d20 system, an insidious mechanism that seems to be permeating every level of our profession. The project is codenamed Spycraft.

Intelligence operatives have identified two moles at AEG, Patrick Kapera and Kevin Wilson, experienced agents who authored the project. They have leaked information about the work to members of the community at large and advertised their desire for monetary compensation. It is clear these men have piercing insights into every level of the world of espionage, and have included this information in their work. This includes, but is not limited . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: April 19, 2002

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