There is a tradition among Dungeons & Dragons players, and honestly among RPG players in general, of killing gods once you get high enough. Unless, of course, you are running a campaign for a table of stubborn players who want to kill demons instead.
With this D&D book, officially sanctioned by Arcanum World, you can do just that: the book, available now at DM's Guild, arrived yesterday.
First, they tapped Arcanum World's James Olhen, who has been a senior creative director at Bioware for 22 years and is the author of "Baldur's Gate 1 and 2," "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic," "Dragon Age: Origins," "Neverwinter Nights," and "Mass Effect. Adrian Tchaikovsky, who wrote the Hugo Award-winning Children of Time series, joins forces with him to take you straight to hell.
It also serves a good purpose. All proceeds from the book will be donated to Extra Life, a fundraising program of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, which focuses on providing lifesaving medical care and treatment to hospitals.
The book itself is thick at 286 pages and offers an adventure for level 11-20 characters and a journey deep into the Nine Hells. If you are going to send a high level player anywhere, you have to assign HP values. And you know what that means.
That means that Asmodeus, the King of Hell, has finally been given a numerical value. Now we can theoretically construct a way to dunk Lucifer in D&D. And with over 50 high-level monsters to fight and over 20 magic items included in the package, it may be worth buying even if you don't intend to throw your party into hell.
I myself am very excited to dive into this book. I've never run a high-level adventure, but the prospect of letting my adventurers rampage through Hell's Doom-style, taking down archdukes like bowling pins and killing fantasy Satan has me signed up.
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