Jürgen Hubert
First Post
Infernal Teddy said:
Ah. Oh well.
Truth to be told, not all German CoC products were good. I was disappointed with "Kleine Völker", for example.
But the Malleus Monstrorum was sublime. This is the only book I know of where the translation completely blows the original (the "Creature Companion") out of the water. In fact, if the book wasn't currently in the process of getting re-translated into English (!), I'd recommend it even to people not proficient in German for the illustrations alone. That's how good it is.
But don't take my word for it - take Ken Hite's instead:
"Most Improved Retread of 2004: Other improvements were of such magnitude as to deserve their own award; Steve Long's new Dark Champions simply added a ton of excellent new material to an excellent book, while Allen Varney added an actually non-terrible game engine to Paranoia XP while rediscovering the original genius therein. An even greater rediscovery of paranoia shines through the transcendent vision in the art and presentation of Malleus Monstrorum (also from Pegasus Spiele), which wins it the Most Improved Retread Outie for 2004, even though it's in German. Even though it was actually released in 2003. That's how good it is."
