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Legend: The Spider God's Bride $19.99
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Legend: The Spider God's Bride
Publisher: Mongoose
by Mikko M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/04/2013 15:58:25

Very good piece of work, and true to the sword and sorcery theme, strongly recommended.



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Legend: The Spider God's Bride
Publisher: Mongoose
by Samuel B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/05/2013 11:44:48

The version now available is the updated SGB, with all of the conversion problems sorted out.

"The Wolf" (Darren Pearce) made sure the following was done:

Fixed: NPCs, this includes restoring description, tactics and possessions. Fixed: Monsters in adventures. Fixed: Monster appendix. Fixed: Chapter on gods, cults and demons with Legend style Sorcery as the basis for the cults themselves. Fixed: Adventures (minor text) with additions and clarifications. New: Magic items. New: Magic chapter. New: Poison appendix

Brilliant set of scenarios set in the World of Xoth.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Legend: The Spider God's Bride
Publisher: Mongoose
by Niels A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/02/2013 20:43:57

The Spider God's Bride is a collection of Sword and Sorcery adventures in the mold of Robert E. Howard's Conan and Kull stories. To be upfront, I do not play the Legend System so I really did not pay attention to the stats for the NPCs and the Monsters. I am actually going to use it with Crypts and Things. What I really loved about this product were the adventures. The title alone comes across as a the title of a novel from the 70's or 80's that would find in a used book store these days complete with a lurid cover of brawny warrior with a broadsword protecting a beautiful, scantily clad woman from a demon from the pits of Hell. Evil cults, dark gods, demons, rogues, cut throats, fowl sorcerers, mysterious women: all of that you can find in these adventures. I really think that this product captures the spirit of Sword and Sorcery fiction. Mongoose did a great job with the old Conan RPG and The Spider God's Bride shows that they still do sword and sorcery RPG adventures better than just about anyone.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Legend: The Spider God's Bride
Publisher: Mongoose
by james g. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/23/2013 06:21:54

This is a conversion to the Legend rules system based on an original D20 publication by Morten Braten from Xoth.net.

As it stands now (23rd Feb 2013) its a real mess because of the way the conversion was handled - all of the stats for NPCs are essentially unusable - however, Mongoose have responded to complaints and have commissioned a revision which is currently being worked on. It is unclear how long this is going to take or what the result will finally look like.

My original review: (which is still accurate as things stand) There are some real problems - little consideration of how magic works, how cults work, cultural backgrounds lack detail, NPCs and especially NPC sorcerers and magic users have been very poorly converted. The original D20 NPC antagonists are fairly powerful spell users, here they have been translated to very bland low skill magic users - not only have their spells been reduced to one or two spells - it's usually the same two spells from sorcerer to sorcerer. Much of the characterisation has been lost because of this, let alone the fact that these NPCs are now pushovers due to the huge reduction in their capabilities.

Given that the whole point of this publication is to convert the original D20 book to the Legend rules I think it is very poor value. I would recommend going to to Xoth.net and buying the original directly from him and doing the conversion yourself, it's also almost half the price of this.

There's one plus to this version - it's got better maps.



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