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Summary: It would explain a lot.....
Review: A new campaign setting for the awesome Alternity RPG, DarkMatter explores modern conspiracies in an uncertain world. The highlights: two possibilities for each detailed conspiracy (just to keep everyone guessing), a host of NPCs to populate the adventure, the start of a heckuva Creature Compendium, and (not one, but) TWO complete adventures to introduce your players to the world that the Hoffmann Institute investigates. Awesome!!!!
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Summary: It would explain a lot.....
Review: A new campaign setting for the awesome Alternity RPG, DarkMatter explores modern conspiracies in an uncertain world. The highlights: two possibilities for each detailed conspiracy (just to keep everyone guessing), a host of NPCs to populate the adventure, the start of a heckuva Creature Compendium, and (not one, but) TWO complete adventures to introduce your players to the world that the Hoffmann Institute investigates. Awesome!!!!
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Summary: Great RPG Setting for Near Future Games
Review: Dark Matter takes place in the early 2000's AD Earth. It is a unique setting focusing on investigation, intrigue, and conspiracies rather than just gun fights. This book is a great resource--from the Freemasons to the United Nations "New World Order", virtually any conspiracy or paranormal activity you can think of is probably described in this book. It is also well organized including a good fast play adventure to introduce the setting, and a second, slighly longer, adventure at the end to get GM and players in the proper (and paranoid) mood. It includes some new skills, perks, flaws, psionics, and arcane and faith magic in addition to the great deal of history.
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Summary: Greatest RPG setting ever.
Review: I can't recommend this setting enough. Written by two Giants in the RPG industry, the creativity & skill in this book is unparalleled. If you have any interest in the paranormal at all, it's worth it.
I must add that this is a GM only book. Players SHOULD NOT read this.
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Summary: Best RPG in Decades
Review: I was heartbroken to learn that Alternity has been cancelled by TSR, and my heartbreak was compounded once I got my hands on Dark Matter. If you are a fan of any government conspiracy, unmarked helicopter, alien abduction, bigfoot type realms, this is the campaign for you. If you aren't a fan, you will be after you read it. I'm a regular conspiracy nut, and all the biggies are covered by Baur and Cook; their research was fantastic. Also, everything from vampires to greys and sasquatches and mummies are present, and they tie into the conspiracies beautifully! If you don't buy this one, you're missing out on one of the RPG finds of a lifetime. Well done to Baur adn Cook, poorly done to TSR for the cancelation. Get it while you still can...
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Summary: Perhaps the best RPG setting! Ever!
Review: Monty Cook and Wolfgang Baur surely have MIB's knocking on their doors since this amazing game touches on so many important conspiracies, aliens, government plots, and secret agendas. If you are a fan of X-Files, Millenium, or anything paranormal, this is the game for you. Yes, it's set in the now dead Alternity setting (the d20 system's beta test), but the world is so rich and well researched, it can easily be applied to a D20 modern setting.
The creatures, NPC's, government groups, timelines, and zeitgeist make for a truly unique gaming world. And it all ties together. The explanation of how Dark Matter makes all magic, science, and alien beings come to Earth is creative and a cover all for everything a DM can imagine. Everything from mummies and sasquaches to gray aliens, men in black, and bering demons all exist with beautiful justification.
I've gamed for over 20 years, and this setting(mixed with d20 Modern rules if you can't get Alternity) is the best I've ever seen. Buy it now before it's gone forever--even if you don't role play, the research into the secret things around and beneath us is so accurate and thorough, you could teach a class from this source. In fact, I teach a college course on the paranormal and unexplained, and I've had to turn to this book for clarification on a few real-world dates.
A fantastic source, and I hope the rumors are true that Wizards is considering a d20 Modern remake of the setting. Cross your fingers...
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Summary: Move over X-Files!
Review: The whole book gives you everything you need to dive right in. I hope a Core Rules CD-ROM will follow soon for the Alternity RPG.
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Summary: Move over X-Files!
Review: The whole book gives you everything you need to dive right in. I hope a Core Rules CD-ROM will follow soon for the Alternity RPG.
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Summary: Great RPG Setting for Near Future Games
Review: This is the conspiracy/horror game for which I've been waiting. Excellent production values, a logical and sensible game world, plus every bit of High Weirdness you can imagine. You should get this as a source book even if you don't like the Alternity system.
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Summary: Fantastic Game! A must for all roleplayers!
Review: This is the conspiracy/horror game for which I've been waiting. Excellent production values, a logical and sensible game world, plus every bit of High Weirdness you can imagine. You should get this as a source book even if you don't like the Alternity system.
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