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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2009906" data-attributes="member: 18387">By Bruce Boughner, Staff Reviewer, d20 Magazine Rack and Co-host of Mortality Radio Sizing Up the Target Demons & Devils II is a hard cover published by Fast Forward Entertainment and is the second of a series dedicated to fiends from the Netherworld. The authors include James M. Ward, Dale Donovan, Kevin Melka and Tim Brown among others. The cover is a faux-tome of what looks to be an ancient Greek statue of Dionysis made to look like a demon by William W. Connors, who also handles the interior art along with Jennifer Meyer and Troy Parker. The book is 224 pages long and is available for $29.99.First Blood This is a combination Monster Manual/Deities and Demigods tome. Listing Demons and Devils taken from real mythology and given a playable form. Some of these have very brief monstrous descriptions, while others are demi-gods or extra-planar beings on a par with gods. These powerful creatures have an extensive history, detailing their church, artifacts, unique spells and, in some cases, prestige class followers. Beings such as the tanar’ri, Maskim, whose followers can qualify for the prestige class of Soulsworn, provided they are chaotic evil, possess the necessary feats and have give their soul to Maskim via the Makimite soul steal spell. He has also developed the unique spells of Lavaskin and Rockswimming. Others, like Hantu Penyardin (a tannar’ri) is the Malaysian demigod of vampires while Akikel (a baatezu) is one of the fallen and a chief lieutenant of Satan leading armies of the damned in the Blood Wars, his followers are Death Legionnaires and he has a half dozen unique spells like the Wings of War. Critical Hits I’ve not yet acquired the first book of the series but this is a good companion piece to the Green Ronin books, Legions of Hell and Armies of the Abyss for those Dm’s campaigning on the Lower Planes or fiendishly invading some back water kingdom. Critical Misses The artwork is amateurish in places, they are going for the look of a medieval text on the same subject. Mostly they are successful but every so often a weak one comes in. Cross-referencing and gathering some of the spells and classes into a table at the end might be helpful. Coup de Grace This book doesn’t suffer from Fast Forward’s minimalist view on detail. These fiends are richly detailed as are their followers when applicable and their prestige classes. There is a lot of crunchy bit in this book and I am on the hunt for book I in the series.To see the graded evaluation of this product, go to Fast Tracks at <a href="http://www.d20zines.com" target="_blank">www.d20zines.com.</a></blockquote>

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