Pyramid Review
The Red Star Campaign Setting (for d20 Modern Roleplaying Game)
Published by Green Ronin Publishing
Written by T.S. Luikart & Ian Sturrock
Cover by Christian Gossett, Snakebite, & Paul Schrier
Internal Illustrations by Allen Coulter, Edwin Fong, Chris Glenn, Christian Gossett, Jon Moberly, Nelson Nolan, Junki Saita, Aaron Skillman, Snakebite, & Paul Schrier with James Ryman
194-page full-color hardcover; $34.95
Although Archangel Studios has published RPG material of its own in the form of Dramatis Personae: Campaign Ready NPCs, it is best known for the comic book series, The Red Star. This tells the epic struggle to rekindle the true of the Revolution across the history of an alternate Soviet Union. The setting combines Science Fiction and sorcery to depict a U.R.R.S. (United Republic of the Red Star) capable of projecting power through the vast resources of its Red Fleet. Its mighty 100,000-ton Skyfurnaces never land, but each can deploy thousands of the soldiers known as Red Troopers, all armed with a Hook. Telekinetically enhanced, this is as much "Swiss army knife," as it is both a ranged and a close combat weapon. The Hailers, elite soldiers trained in the use of the Hailer, the telekinetic multi-purpose, multi-ammunition machine gun, support them, as do the Red Fleet's Sorceresses. They provide mass support and mass firepower, as Infokasters, Medikasters, Supply Kasters, War Kasters, and so on.
Arrayed against the might of the U.R.R.S. and the Red Fleet are the peoples . . .
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Article publication date: July 8, 2005
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