Artifacts of the Ancients

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Every scav, raider, and trader knows that the scarred lands of the Twisted Earth, though seemingly desolate and broken to the untrained eye, are anything but empty. Artifacts Of The Ancients is a sourcebook for the post-apocalyptic d20 role-playing game DARWINS WORLD. Within these pages you will find a collection of useful, bizarre, and advanced technologies once utilized by the Ancients. Treasure of a sort, these include lethal weapons, super-advanced personal armor, humming electronic devices, powerful and magical medicines, and other objects worthy of worship and wonder.
This sourcebook introduces the various items of special interest that can be found among the ruined cities and lost settlements of the Twisted Earth, and their practical use in DARWINS WORLD.

 

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Cost: Over 50 pages for $5, is a reasonable price.

Artwork
cover: I do not enjoy the style of the artwork on the cover. It is however not done poorly.
interior: Poor to Good, most verging on poor.

Content:
The Firearms section in this product could use a little help from other Firearm systems out there for d20, but I do agree that how it was done might be appropriate for the setting.

Some of the good juju seems frustrating. I understand the game balance that might go into having your mutant have an unfortunate side effect with the healing "potion"/aka healing pack/drug/whatever... but to actually find one of the few things in the system to help you recover actually has a negative side effect to you, would have me as a player causing GM-icide.


As in all good games, the treasure tables are something I'd always be looking for, and it is presented well in this product.


Note a bad buy, although GMs might want to suppliment their firearms or vehicles with rules from other d20 products.