Pyramid Review
Damnation Decade (for d20 Modern & True20)
Published by Green Ronin Publishing
Written by Robert J. Toth
Cover by Chris Dien
Illustrated by Empty Room Studios (Jeff Cram, Bob Cram, Colin Throm, Keith Curtis, Rick Hershey, Michael Hamlett, Jia Wang, Cliff Kurowski, & Dan Howard)
144-Page Perfect Bound Black & White Book; $27.95
Bonkers.
This supplement is quite literally bonkers.
Which was my initial reaction to Damnation Decade, the latest in Green Ronin's Mystic Vistas line. From its treatment of the Biblical Age, pirates, Ancient Egypt, and an alternative Soviet Union, this series has produced some of the best supplements and source books for the d20 System, consistently proving to be interesting and informative. Damnation Decade continues this trend, providing not only for d20 Modern and Green Ronin's True20 System, but also for gaming in general, the best supplement on the 1970s to date. Between Wingnut Games' Solid! The d20 Blaxploitation Experience and Deep7's Disaster! 1PG Survival Adventure! and "Thunderball Rally," the article in Dungeon #93/Polyhedron #152, there is not a lot of competition, I grant you, but Damnation Decade is not just the best, but also engagingly crazy.
Damnation Decade describes a period wherein every paranoid fantasy, every disaster depicted in movies such as Soylent Green, Rollerball, The Omega Man, and others has come true. It is 1976 and President Stanton Spobeck should have resigned two years ago for interfering . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: April 6, 2007
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