Pyramid Review
Fright Night: Polar Terror (for the d20 System)
Published by Hogshead Publishing
Written by Steven Marsh
Illustrated by Amandine Labarre
64-page b&w softcover; $15.95
Editor's Note: This book was written by Pyramid editor Steven Marsh.
The second incarnation of Hogshead Publishing is best known for its Crime Scene series of supplements for the d20 System that explore both sides of the law in the USA. So far these have included Crime Scene: Police Investigation and Crime Scene: Forensics, but Hogshead has also branched out with a new line called "Fright Night." Each title explores all things that go bump in the night in the contemporary here and now, presenting a location and building a scenario around the setting. The first title in the series, Fright Night: Haunted House, looked at a very traditional setting, but the second is far more contemporary, for Fright Night: Polar Terror is set in the Antarctic.
[SPOILER ALERT!]
The situation is very simple: As the isolating Antarctic winter approaches the United Kingdom's newest base, New Shackleton puts out a call for help. One of its tasks is to investigate radio and magnetic anomalies, but nothing has been heard from the latest exploratory team for the last five days. The PCs, serving at the US Amundsen-Scott base, are assigned to take a helicopter out to the British encampment, check on the survivors, and transport them or their remains back to New Shackleton.
Unfortunately, the party discovers the small encampment in disarray . . .
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Article publication date: December 10, 2004
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