Pyramid Review
50 Fathoms (for Shane Lacy Hensley's Savage Worlds)
Published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Written by Shane Lacy Hensley
Front Cover by Zeke Sparkes
Rear Cover by David Deitrich
Illustrated by Cheyenne Wright
144-page b&w hardcover; $29.95
Some years can be defined by their genre, a happenstance that can come about by design, such as everyone releasing World-War-II-related games and supplements in 2001, and by synchronicity in 2003, with a treasure chest full of pirate-themed releases reaching the shelves of your local and virtual games emporia, all helped along with the blockbuster movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl. Which gives the gaming consumer a welter of choice when it comes to running up the Jolly Roger and sailing the Seven Seas in search of plunder. Living Games provided a fantastical approach for the d20 System with the release of Pirates!, while Deep7's double reprint of Shriek/Bloode Island 1PG Double Feature gave us the fastest and most accessible choice. Green Ronin Publishing, in addition to continued support for their Freeport: City of Adventure with the scenario anthology Tales of Freeport, brought out what was arguably the best treatment of the genre, Skull & Bones: Swashbuckling Horror in the Golden Age of Piracy. This combined a detailed and realistic look at the Golden Age of Piracy with a dark streak of voodoo, again for the d20 System.
The last of 2003's piratical releases again gave a fantastic treatment of the genre, . . .
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Article publication date: March 26, 2004
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