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Campaign: Star*Drive, but it can,
more or less, be used for other campaigns ( see description )
Author(s): Richard Baker and Bill
Slavicsek
Usefulness: 6
Appreciation: 8
Review:
The Alien Compendium is a very good book. It
should have been very useful in any Star*Drive campaign if it were not
for the fact that I played several gaming sessions without it and could
have continued playing without it. In fact, my pc's fight mostly Klicks
and Voidcorps agents. The layout is creative and practical. Several planets
are given an entry with their stats and a short description, followed by
the aliens who live there. Planets in the same systems are also grouped
together under a system heading. This makes it easy to use in play as you
can know which interesting aliens live in the systems without searching
all through the book or in an index. The other side of the medal is that
this accessory is tailored for the Star*Drive setting, while someone could
use a Forgotten Realms monster compendium in generic AD&D this books
details aliens of Star*Drive planets and often refers to nations of Star*Drive
in which the planet is located or with which nation the alien has contact.
128 soft cover.
Reviewer: Bleakcabal