Hellfrost Gazetteer

Let me start this review by saying I am a Hellfrost fanboy. This is the best setting I have run across in recent years.

Size: 134 pages

Contents:

Part one: Region Guides. Each region of the Rasillon campaign setting gets an approximately four-page write-up. This provides enough detail to tell you what is going on without stifling your creativity. Each region entry ends with a set of plot hooks for the GM to expand on.

Part two: Details on fifteen evil organizations who are just dying to give the PC's a bad time.

Likes: Following the index is a two page map of the campaign setting. This is much larger than any other campaign map I have been able to locate. The PDF is fully bookmarked, which is a necessity in a book like this. On the bookmarks tab is an option to make the PDF "Printer Friendly". In effect, what this does is turn off the background stationery. (This is probably my favorite feature, believe it or not.) The book is completely system-neutral and statistic-free. Since I am converting this to a Rolemaster Classic campaign, that is wonderful for me. *This isn't a plot-point setting.

Dislikes: *I took a star away for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. In a book with production values this high, I expected more from the company.

Bottom Line: Buy this PDF, even if you only plan on running your campaign in a single area of Rassilon. PC groups have a nasty habit of wanting to wander off the edges of your carefully crafted maps. With this book, a GM will be ready no matter where they decide to wander.

Don't look goog, a bad collection of pictures.

The Flats don#t look like Sunderes Skies Figure, i am sad i bought them!

The art work included is nice, but you can get in the players handbook PDF. What disapointed me was the lack of tables. I was expected some Savage Worlds tables and charts in there, which any DM would need to run the game of Hellfrost. Without the core rules to run the game, this screen is not worth the money. If I could get my money back I would.

I purchased the Hellfrost setting some months back but it took me a while to getting a group together to run a campaign with this superb Savage Worlds setting. Lair of The Vermin Lord certainly gave me a boot up the rear to get things moving! What I really appreciate as a pdf buyer is the fact that this product is fully bookmarked ... not essential in a module adventure but really appreciated by a GM! Triple Ace Games really put out high quality material and if this module is matched by the others in the series (and there are plenty to keep a group running for months and months) I will certainly be back.

The plot is straightforward to run and should keep players busy and involved, mine were certainly challenged (appropriately) at times and enjoyed the story as it unfolded. A good mix of combat and NPC-PC interaction with a nice range of Skills being useful. As an introductory adventure to the Savage Worlds system, this was great and it really got my players into the Hellfrost setting.

What is not advertised is that this adventure comes with some high quality paper miniatures, very very nice, thanks TAG!

Hellfrost is a Norse campaign setting, think Conan in winter with epic tales. The expanded rules for magic is worth the purchase especially if you want something different in terms of how magic is handle in Savage Worlds. This guide gives a good overview of the world, back history, races, and Gods. The art work is top notch mixing different styles of art to paint the whole picture of the seriousness of the ever growing winter. I would recommend this supplement as it is a quality product.

For monsters you will need the Beastary For the map of the world and places to explore you will need the Gazeteer.

Its planetary settings are well detailed, though the Black Guardians themselves raised a couple of questions for me - fixable with a little thought. This is a fairly linearly scripted space-opera piece with some fantasy elements, heavy on the parmesan and the tomato sauce, which seems a reasonable way to write for Savage Worlds. Some truly threatening scenes might require careful judgement by the GM if players start to get into trouble.

This is my first purchase in the Daring Tales of Adventure product line. Overall, I am quite impressed with the value present in this product. The quality of the artwork is superb. The selection is more than adequate. There are plenty of heroes, sidekicks, villains, and by-standers provided. The tri-fold design is not my favorite, but I was quickly able to manipulate the images to provide two-sided figures which I then mounted to home-made slotted foam core bases. I printed multiples of the Nazi figures, since, as you well know, there are always more Nazis. There are enough different poses to make the Nazis look good in a horde. My only complaint is that there are too few poses of some of the other figure types. There are plenty of different colors uses bewteen the figures, but a different pose or two (or five) would have been nice. Still, I'm completely satisfied with the purchase and am planning on buying more the Daring Tales of Adventure line for my home and convention games.

The Good news is that the art is terrific and there are plenty of figures. The vehicles are very nice. they don't have interiors, but you can cut in your own interior if you want. Also you might be able to purchase the vehicles seperately at much less the cost because a big disappointment is that they only provide figures in the trifold position. This can be worked around if you really prefer an inverted T figure that most other paper minis are formated in. However, a bigger disappointment is that they don't allow you to copy paste or resize any of the minis so you can scale them to the size of your other products. You can only use their minis because they are not the same 25mm scale that most others are. I might be able to use a few of the figures that are kneeling but the standing ones look very small compared to most other paper and plastic 25mm figs. What were they thinking that we are going to copy and steal their miniatures. If I wanted to pirate them I would just email a copy of the file to all my friends. Locking the copy/paste feature doesn't do anything except limit the possibilities of their product and make it less desirable to the purchasing public. Too little satisfying product for the price.

This is a decent adventure that can fit well into most any campaign. Unfortunately, it is lacking maps or diagrams for the encounter locations. While one can piece together a mental image from the text (the locations are not terribly complex), one really expects at least some basic graphics in a professional product (especially one that presents itself as a location-based scenario).

I really like the setting, and the story etc. in this product are good. But for the price, they really should have hired an artist. As it is, I'm disappointed and likely won't buy further ACE products.

Like other Daring Tales of Adventure the game starts up right away with action and the pace hardly ever slows down. A mix of Big Trouble in Little China and the Insideous Dr. Fu Manchu the players take on an ancient evil. Like all DToA, Game masters are strongly advised to go the TripleAces website and get all the free goodies there, espeically the Pulp Rules. Like all past DToA it is written for the 4 pre-gens, but can easily accomodate more Players and using custom characters. This adveture really does leverage the TripleAces character flats for most encounters, but I really wish they would have flats for the special characters (Lo-peng and his talons). So far the series of adventures have leveraged a wide variety of pulp sources and still remained original. So I look forward to purchasing the remaining 8 modules as they are released.

Another great scenario by Triple Ace Games. Though things here are more 'fantastic' than past releases, it is a full on global campaign taking players from Washington DC to the Deserts of Egypt to the heart of Spain to beyond (sorry, want to limit the spoilers here).

This adventure can be used the 4 pre-gens from TripleAces website, or if the PCs wish to create their own they can, just pay attention to the EXP level that is expected here.

It is important to any Game Master to go to the Triple Aces website and get the Pulp Era rules that are available as a free PDF to know what some of the unique rules that involved in running a Daring Tales of Adventure (while you are there get the Pre-gens, and the free figure flats)

Again, I wish they would include character flats for the unique creatures/figures for this scenario (of which there are plenty here).

All in all, I am enjoying the product line and look forward to getting the remaining 9 in the months ahead.

So I am looking for paper figs for an upcoming round of pulpy goodness for games like Spirit of the Century, Hollow Earth Expedition, and come across these, which then lead me down the slippery slope of other Pulp goodness and their entire Daring Tales of Adventure Line (so see my reviews on those products if you want more info). But to this product. It comes with pages of good Pulpy Characters. If you want go to their website and download the freebies to see what you are getting, in fact do that anyway as those in the Freebie are not in this one. Now to some of the meat of the product. First the good news, all the pre-gen characters of the adventures are in this pack. As are most of the villains any pulpy person would encounter. Plus there are clear indications that this set will satisfy several other solid releases to come from Triple Ace games. So what is there not to like. Well, first the figures are all 3 fold characters (so 2 fronts and a black back), so a good breeze or the comforting cool of a fan can scatter your entire force to the wind. Solutions have been many (paper clips to finding hard to obtain card holding gizmos). I wish they had perhaps gone the route of other companies (like Precis Intermedia Games) with a single fold with a wide base that could easily be glued to pennies. Now I understand why they did this, all the Paper Figures from Earlier PEG items (like Deadlands) were done this way, its just hard to weigh them down. Still I give this product and what it brings to any pulp game a good solid A grade. And I do hope they release more providing more figures for their published scenarios and vehicles (etc.), as well as looking to other Pulp games to perhaps provide for them as well (looking for Hollow Earth Expedition Beastiary). Keep up the good work and look forward to buying more.

The second of what appears to be 10 well connected adventures, this longer tale of Pulp goodness provides another excellent globe-trotting jaunt for players of the Savage Worlds. It also comes with quick cult generation rules for your own future adventures (combine this with the quick pulp adventure rules from Two Fisted Tales RPG and you can make a full adventure in about 30 minutes time). As I mentioned in my review of adventure #1, it is primarily focused on 4 characters, but it is a thrilling tale with so many good elements I can't hardly wait to run it. My only wish is now that I have the figure flats (which based on just the 2 adventures I have so far) I wish special characters and creatures were included in each adventure. In this one, it would have been great to have templates representing the creatures faced. In Adventure #1 it would have been great to have flats for the thing that stalks the players (trying to avoid spoilers here), or cars for the opening scene of To End All Wars. All in all an excellent product and I look forward to running this adventure (with some extra PCs) in the near future.

As a fan of all things Pulp I was excited to see some adventures being produced for Savage Worlds that would bring this genre to life. All the freebies at the companies website showed that they were serious about producing a quality product. So with little delay I purchased this adventure packet and downloaded the stuff from their website. The first story is a classic Pulp yarn with so much cool stuff(Nazis, Mad Scientist, Zepplins!). PRO - Well written, lots of action, very good plot. CON - this is minor, but important to note - the stories are generic enough to do with any character you cook up, but really shine with the pre-gens available on their website. The downside is only 4 pre-gens are available and the challenges are mostly geared for 4 players. I really wish they would come up with optional 5th or 6th PCs and note how to ratchet up the adventure to accommodate these extras. The second story, Chaos in Crete, while also a good yarn was not as good as the first, still worthy of the genre and more reminiscent of Indian Jone/Mummy and makes the $7 I spent well worth while.