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Medium: Softbound Type: RPG source material for D20 Author: James Maliszewski and Steve Kenson Publher: Paradigm Concepts Price: 18.99 Lords of the Peaks is a D20 supplement detailing the lifestyles of giants within a fantasy campaign. Paradigm Concepts produced this work as part of their "Races of Legend" series. Paradigm Concepts and Green Ronin are teaming up to create "OGL Interlink". Interlink represents the two companies working together to present related races in their own source books at about the same time. Lords of the Peaks is the first in this series, its related work from Green Ronin will be Hammer & Helm: A Guidebook to Dwarves. An interesting note is that the cover art for both these works creates one larger piece of art. I was interested in LotP right off as it dealt with giants. I'm traditionalist, and so I love the old stand by antagonists. In short I think giants rock. Anyway, the giants dealt with in this supplement are the traditional D&D giants that we are used to. Hill, Stone, Frost, Fire, Cloud, Storm and Celestial giants all make the cut. Some room is also given to giant-kin like Ettins, and Cyclops and the like. Each sub race is dealt with in order of power. Attention is given to physical description, military strategy, culture, special abilities, preferred weapons and such. The text for each of the sections goes some distance in trying to realistically justify why the giants do what they do. The sections conclude with examples of various NPC giants, and role playing suggestions for character giants. A section on religion, and the various Domains of giant clerics is given too. LotP also includes giant feats, and giant prestige classes. The last section of the book deals with description. I liked the fact that they included this. I think that often times DM's overlook the joy of describing encounters between PC's and giants. Description is the key if you want to truly give the right feel. I should also point out that each section gives a "Living Arcanis" description of the giant in question. I thought this was nice as it can give world specific outlooks on these awesome creatures. Anyway, LotP is a handy source book and a good read. I got through it in one setting and I wanted to. Playability:  Magic/Tech: Character Creation: Presentation: Randall Constant, 11/25/02 | |||||||||||||
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