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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2008685" data-attributes="member: 18387">I have given 5's to the previous slayers guides. Reason why I rate this one slightly lower is not that it is of lower quality but rather that it is of very limited applicability. In the tradition of the previous Slayer's Guides, SGtA covers the ecology of, in this case not a monster species, but a specific human subculture. Subculture in question are Amazons - fabled warior women famous for their beauty, battle prowes and hatered of man. The book has all the usual strengths of a Slayer's Guide, making Amazons realy come to life. It has more crunchy bits then Slayer's guides so far including the two new clerical domains, new spells and rather decent, if specialised, prestige class, but the fiction text and overall flavour do not suffer as a consequence proving that you can indeed please (nearly) everyone.  Art is excellent, epecialy for those of us that do like to see well drawn beautifull females (when appropriate). It is by far the best ilustrated Mongoose book so far even if we take into account just the technical quality and not the topic. A question can be asked though as to why does the book full of pictures of beautifuly, and even realisticaly, drawn scantily clad women put out such a silly and impossible looking cover. Almost any interior illustration would have done much better job.This excellently done art, however, brings to mind that SGtA is sadly much more likely to be gawked at then used in the actual gameplay. Hobgoblins, Gnolls, Troglodites, even Centaurs to some extent, are DnD bread and butter. Having deeper insight into their society makes my games more interesing practicaly on daily basis. Altrough amazons are time honoured fantasy concept (being around since that great fantasy writer Herodotus) they are not something DM would want to use on daily basis. Their isolated location and isolatinist nature make sure that if they are ever used in a campaign that will be for a rare, one shot, adventure. Of course one can imagine Amazon based campaigns but those are not likely to be very frequent. It is for this reason that I fail to understand why was this book published before such needed items as S.G.s to Trolls, Kobolds,  Bugbears, Githyanki, Drow or a myriad of other much more frequently encountered DnD critters. All in all it is an excellent book, a perfect excuse for some well executed babe-art and does what it sets out to de as well as any Slayer's Guide. My only concern is whether some more usefull gaming material has been moved down the production schedule in order to provide us with the eye-candy.</blockquote>

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