Pyramid Review
Trojan War: Roleplaying in the Age of Homeric Adventure (for d20 System)
Published by Green Ronin Publishing
Written by Aaron Rosenberg
Cover by James Ryman
Illustrated by Drew Baker, Kent Burles, Caleb Cleveland, Jonathon Kirtz, Britt Martin, Beth Trott, Joe Wigfield, & Lisa Wood
Cartography by Shawn Brown
160-page perfect bound black and white book; $27.95
For the fifth entry in their Mythic Vistas line, Green Ronin revisit the Ancient World, returning to the Bronze Age first seen in Testament: Roleplaying In The Biblical Era. Almost in the wake of the blockbuster Troy comes Trojan War: Roleplaying in the Age of Homeric Adventure, a d20 System treatment of Homer's Iliad. This is the opportunity for the players to sail with the Achaen (or Greek) army under Menelaus and Agamemnon to retrieve the love struck Helen or to join the armies of the nine dynasties under King Priam to defend the city in the valley before it. They will fight alongside the heroes of either side: Achilles, Odysseus, and Patroclus for the Achaens, and Hector, Paris, and Sarpedon for the Trojans. Perhaps the characters will become champions themselves, each leading a company out to face the enemy; sure in the victory already dedicated to the god whose favor they have gained . . . On occasion, the gods themselves will take to the battlefield both to aid their favored heroes and combat their Olympic rivals.
This is a very humanocentric setting, the only other race available being Divine Offspring, the product . . .
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Article publication date: April 22, 2005
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