Judge Dredd Role Playing Game

Rating:
Summary: A Waste of Money
Review: Only buy this book if you collect Dredd related material. If you want to roleplay the Dredd universe, instead go to Ebay and pick up a copy of the old GW Dredd RPG.

This new book adds nothing to the genre. It is simply a re-hash of the old RPG. Worse still, you have to go and buy another book before you can even play it as there are NO RULES only background fluff and few add ons.

Generally, I feel this could have been a LOT better product than it is.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Treatment
Review: This is a fairly good treatment of the Judge Dredd universe, and is well-wrapped in the d20 system. The Judge Dredd universe is always an interesting one, and this book provides a good basis for a diverse set of campaign types. My biggest complaint is that there is a fair amount of both repetition and spelling errors (yes, I know it is British English) in the book, so I think the book would have benefited from the editor taking a second pass at it. That having been said, the character creation process is good, the background for campaign development is good, and the environment is defined quite well.

I disagree with the other reviewer who said that the old Games Workshop version was a lot better. The two games are actually quite different, thus making it fairly difficult to compare the two. It also is probably worthwhile to point out that the GW version is no longer in print. Also, the fact that you have to buy the 3rd edition D&D Player's Handbook is only a problem if you don't subscribe to the d20 approach to gaming. The d20 system may not be perfect, but it does accomplish its goal of allowing quick development of consistently playable games. Probably the only other system out there that does it better is GURPS, and, quite frankly, there just isn't as much uptake by the gaming community for GURPS as there is for d20.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Treatment
Review: This is a fairly good treatment of the Judge Dredd universe, and is well-wrapped in the d20 system. The Judge Dredd universe is always an interesting one, and this book provides a good basis for a diverse set of campaign types. My biggest complaint is that there is a fair amount of both repetition and spelling errors (yes, I know it is British English) in the book, so I think the book would have benefited from the editor taking a second pass at it. That having been said, the character creation process is good, the background for campaign development is good, and the environment is defined quite well.

I disagree with the other reviewer who said that the old Games Workshop version was a lot better. The two games are actually quite different, thus making it fairly difficult to compare the two. It also is probably worthwhile to point out that the GW version is no longer in print. Also, the fact that you have to buy the 3rd edition D&D Player's Handbook is only a problem if you don't subscribe to the d20 approach to gaming. The d20 system may not be perfect, but it does accomplish its goal of allowing quick development of consistently playable games. Probably the only other system out there that does it better is GURPS, and, quite frankly, there just isn't as much uptake by the gaming community for GURPS as there is for d20.