[RPG]: Arcane Adversaries, reviewed by ghost-angel (3/4)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13355.phtml

Gordon F.'s Summary:

Five mystic organizations and twelve solo villains for any mystically oriented campaign. Good for more than just Champions games.

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[DrFaust]

Unlike other NPC books for Hero there is no Master Villain chapter, the book could have fleshed itself out a little more by providing one or two more truly powerful Mystic Villains for use as the main enemy in a game.

I suppose that might have to do with Arcane Adversaries spinning out of The Mystic World. IIRC, Hero Games decided that the TMW was over-long, and decided to publish most of the NPCs in a second book. So the master villains -- Skarn, Tyrannon and the Dragon -- stayed in TMW while the rest became the content of AA.

[ghost-angel]

Originally Posted by DrFaust

I suppose that might have to do with Arcane Adversaries spinning out of The Mystic World. IIRC, Hero Games decided that the TMW was over-long, and decided to publish most of the NPCs in a second book. So the master villains -- Skarn, Tyrannon and the Dragon -- stayed in TMW while the rest became the content of AA.

It is. I probably would have gone a different route. Since they published even more in a second spin off as a PDF Only (Mystic Menaces Funpack) They probably could have put that into Mystic World, taken a few Master Villains out of that and put them in Arcane Adversaires. The Dragon is a good choice to put into Arcane Adversaries since it's a main focus of the Sylvestri Clan.

[DrFaust]

Originally Posted by ghost-angel

The Dragon is a good choice to put into Arcane Adversaries since it's a main focus of the Sylvestri Clan.

Yeah, I would have preferred an expanded section on the Dragon, as I remember it having the shortest amount of pagespace in TMW, despite being the one that grabbed my attention the most.