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Monday, January 03, 2011

Underplex review at RPG.net 

Darren MacLennan's glowing review of Paul Baldowski's PARANOIA supplement The Underplex (Style: 5, Substance: 5):
The entire book is packed, is the best way to put it. Instead of hammering a point to death over and over again -- stop snickering, I do not do that in my reviews -- the book gives you just enough to let your imagination do the rest of the work, then sprints to the next idea. An Old Reckoning military base, for instance, gives you just enough of an idea to flesh it out in your mind, then seamlessly introduces a plot complication that'll keep Troubleshooters dealing with chlorine-spewing scrubots. Almost every section has an adventure seed to go along with it, or a mission and counter-mission for secret society members. [...]

I should also mention Jim Holloway's artwork, which is just sterling; his style is one of the reasons why it's so easy to grasp PARANOIA's concepts. [...] Even better is his reluctance to draw people as anything but people; you can imagine seeing the people he draws on the street, as opposed to the smooth-faced fashion models you see in every piece of game art ever. That's not to say that he doesn't dip into caricature, but it's the good kind of caricature, where you can see a character's entire personality in a single facial expression.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 1:43 AM

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