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Jack Vance's The Excellent Prismatic Spray (Volume1:Issue 2) Author: Robin D Laws, Phil Masters, Steve Long, Gary Gygax |
Jack Vance's The Excellent Prismatic Spray (Volume1:Issue 2) |
Editorial Review:
The XPS 2 is a beautifully presented compendium of erudite articles, adventures and background material for the Dying Earth RPG. Robin D. Laws presents "Phasms", an adventure for powerful arch-magicians; Gary Gygax details the influence of Jack Vance on the Dungeons and Dragons game. Phil Masters, Steven Long, and many other stellar names present material of comparable interest.
Whether you are a roleplayer or fan of master fantasy author Jack Vance, this volume will prove an indispensable adjunct. You grandchildren will thank you for it.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
Mostly disapointing: 
I think genius is never more obvious then when average people try and duplicate it and fail. Jack Vance's books are brilliant, full of questionable morals, great dialogue, and more awsome RPG ideas in each book then most authors have in their lives. But this book is a poor attempt at immitating it. Basically it is ridiculous dialogue, without any believability. And the RPG ideas within are more like bits of shiny glass then hidden gems. If you really want some great RPG ideas, read one of Jack Vance's...
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A great souce for any role playing game: 
The Excellent Primsatic Spray is a very appealing read, and a useful source work for nearly any rpg of even remotely similar genre. It is written throughout in a remarkable imitation of the original witty, sardonic style of Jack Vance, the author whose work the Dying Earth Rpg is based. At worst, this is still nice for the background feel, at best, it's gut wrenchingly hilarious.
But most important, the short adventure "seeds" and "expedients" in the magazine are suitible short adventures or encounters...more info
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