Re: [BNW] Books

["Thomas E. Reed" <tomreed@sundial.net>]

>Hi everyone,
>     I just began to Guide my BNW players into their first adventure.  I have
>the RuleBook, the Player's Guide, the sceern, Defiants and Delta Prime.  I
>didn't see any reviews aboutr the other products.  Could anybody point me
>out which book is a must and which one is well...  not a must...
>     Thanks!
>             Ovronnaz

I have nearly everything released. Here's my quick estimation:

"Defiants" and "Delta Prime" are good books. They substantially 
advance the plot.

"Crescent City" is okay. If your campaign takes place there, it gives 
you some good plotlines, including neighborhoods where things happen, 
a touch of criminal activity, some good NPC's to interact with your 
characters and a few behind-the-scenes conspiracies involving the 
city's big people.

"Bargainers" is only really necessary if you have a very intense 
campaign involving Bargainer PC's. If you only have one Bargainer, 
I'd see if I could borrow the book and give it a quick read-through. 
In fact, I'm irritated that some of the important morality behind 
Bargainers - which explains their moral stance behind dealing with 
demons and the nature of their "deals" - is made Guide-only 
information. The info almost frightened my very religious Bargainer 
player out of the campaign, until I let him read some of the Guide 
info.

"Evil Unlimited" is, IMHO, the weakest of the books. It provides some 
details about the organizations's past, and it has an interesting 
adventure in the back of the book. But on the whole I found it weak. 
It's like a long lecture from a bad guy who you KNOW is bad, and 
having to wallow through his lies to find the teeny pieces of truth 
in it.

In fact, Truth should have been in it - "EU" should have had a 
section of the Delta Times web site that gave the Defiance's attitude 
towards EU and their treatment of deltas. The one-sidedness of the 
player section of the book got to me, especially after the brilliance 
of "Defiants." (Perhaps the one compensation...isn't that Matt 
Forbeck playing an EU executive on the cover?)

No word about "Covenant" or "Crossroads" yet.

Yours, Thomas E. Reed



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