Pyramid Review
The Book of Unremitting Horror (for d20 Modern)
Published by Pelgrane Press
Written by Dave Allsop & Adrian Bott with Sarah Wroot
Cover by Dave Allsop
Illustrated by Dave Allsop with Grigoriy Kolyadin
156-page b&w softcover; $29.95
Better known for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game, based upon Jack Vance's novels of the same name, Pelgrane Press now dips its toe into the mainstream with its first d20 System sourcebook. The Book of Unremitting Horror is a supplement suited for use with d20 Modern and Mongoose Publishing's OGL Horror, but whose contents could be used with almost any horror RPG. It is the creation of Dave Allsop, the illustrator best known as the creator of SLA Industries, the Scottish RPG of dark bureaucratic horror, and it is he that provides the artwork whilst working with his co-author, Adrian Bott. The result is that for the majority of its pages, The Book of Unremitting Horror is illustrated to great effect by Allsop's pen and inks.
From the outset, it is the art that draws you in, starting with the creepy front cover. It has to, as the back cover is devoid of the traditional blurb, instead displaying the simple phrase, "NEW TIMES DEMAND NEW NIGHTMARES." What you find inside lives up to that phrase, being a collection of creatures dark and disturbing, bizarre and bloody, an array of associated artifacts, a short guide to running horror campaigns, and finally a scenario employing one of the book's entries. All written with the contemporary campaign in . . .
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Article publication date: July 21, 2006
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