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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tuerny" data-source="post: 2008367" data-attributes="member: 674">Legions of Hell, designed by Chris Pramas, is the fourth in Green Ronin Publishing’s line of d20 products. Designed to be used with most any setting, it is a monster book containing a wide variety of denizens of the Plane of Hell.The Book    Legions of Hell, a standard, laminated, perfect bound, book, is sixty-four pages long.  The interior covers are blank. The margins depict scenes of being stuck in cages and being impaled on sticks.    The cover, by Brom, features some sort of devil posing on the top of a rock. It is as good as any Brom illustration is. If you like Brom, you will probably love it. If you hate Brom, than this one won't change your mind. The interior artwork, by Toren Atkinson, Brom, Chris Keefe, Raven Mimura, Sam Wood is very good, never failing to convey a menacing tone for the fiendish denizens of the Hells. The Meat/The Good/The BadLegions of Hell introduces fifteen unique nobles, twenty-six more common inhabitants of the Hells, a template, and three prestige classes, each dedicated to one of the nobles introduced in Legions of Hell. Each is provided with the standard stat blocks and ability descriptions, as well as a color illustration and an informative and interesting description of the creatures role in Hell and often their origins as well.     The nobles are a mix between native inhabitants of the Hells and powerful Fallen Celestials. They are a disparate group ranging from Antaia, the Witch Queen, who serves as a patron of witches on the Prime Plane who is largely indifferent of infernal politics, to Iblis, Duke of Pride, the celestial who precipitated the Fall in ancient times, and brought 1/3 of the entire Heavenly Host down with him, to the camel-headed Vuall, Duke of Pleasure, who has power over fertility and sex, and is worshipped by those seeking his power. For some reason, Vuall reminds me of Joe Camel. Without fail all of them are interesting, AND useful, and each lends itself easily to campaign use.     The other twenty-six monsters are equally varied. They range between diabolical minions of the nobles in the book, like the Gladiatrix, physical domination-dedicated female servants of Hadriel (the duchess of domination), to more independent creatures, like the Faceless, diabolical assassins for-hire used to help devils move the hierarchy of Hell. The devil's presented are as diverse as the nobles, though an inordinate proportion seem to be dedicated to service of Hadriel. Several of the monsters, such as the Enforcers of Dis do not lend themselves well for use on a Prime Material campaign, however, so their lose might be more limited in scope than that of more traditional monsters. My only complaint about this section is they left out the divas, the primary servants of Iblis.     The prestige classes, Balan's Jackal, Mounteback, and Plaguelord, are interesting and mostly vile. Each one involves greater dedication to a particular diabolical noble in exchange for increased power. Each one suffers permanent loss of ability points as they slowly become more and more like their master. Balan's Jackals descend into savagery and bloodlust, Mountebanks become increasingly cunning but absent-minded, and the Plaguelords become insectoid horrors, gaining agility but losing endurance.     The Fallen Celestial Template, in the vein of the fiendish template, creates a celestial that has fallen to the forces of temptation and joined the legions of Hell. Its powers appear to be in line with the gains made by other +2 templates, and provides an interesting mechanism for creating evil celestials.    The remaining portions of the book cover the Choirs of the Seven Heavens, a list of celestials that fell among the Primogenital Stewards and the Samsayan Host, and a list of the monsters presented in the book, organized by Challenge Rating. There is a broad cross-range of monsters in the book ranging from 1/2, with the Knockers, all the way to over twenty, with Bune. For some reason they left Iblis off of the list. The information on the Choirs and the list of fallen celestials is useful for creating future fallen celestials to follow off of the module found in this book.Rating: 5/5Legions of Hell is arguably the best monster book, except for the necessary Monster Manual, produced by any d20 company to date. The artwork is excellent, the monsters are interesting and very useable, and the book as a whole is an example of the heights that d20 products can reach. If you have any interest in planar monsters as foes, or just have an interest in monsters in general, get this book.</blockquote>

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