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An old pirate like myself just couldn't resist it at half its cover price of $20. A unique game world in a box, "what a bargain". The box contains 3 booklets, the first of which is the map book. It provides 25 detailed maplets of the campaign continent, detailing terrain, political/cultural entities and places of interest. The booklet's cover provides the only cohesive picture of the continent which looks vaguely like a combo Europe / Asia / Africa / Australia. Excellent graphics but the cover is a sad substitute for a world map.

The next book, the culture book, describes nearly 100 "civilized" and barbarian cultures of the human race. Actually it's not a bad resource, discussing: politics, religion, history and demography. Each entry is less than a page so detail is slight but even if you weren't going to adopt all of the perilous lands into your campaign there are some unique peoples here to chose from.

The last book is called the site book and it provides info on 17 locations with adventure potential, and short bits on: adventure design, world politics, deities and calendars. Again the adventure seeds here are good but they all lack enough detail for use without some major work.

The lack of depth, and insistence on using too many different calendars to reference dates, makes this supplement difficult to recommend. As a complete campaign it fails, as a resource for campaign creation/expansion it works well. At the $10 price I paid I find myself feeling disappointed, but this is a bargain to be had at $5.

Style: 2 (Needs Work)
Substance: 3 (Average)

PERILOUS LANDS
Author: staff Category: game Company/Publisher: Avalon Hill Line: Powers & Perils Cost: $20 Capsule Review by Papyrus on 07/05/99. Genre tags: Fantasy	An old pirate like myself just couldn't resist it at half its cover price of $20. A unique game world in a box, "what a bargain". The box contains 3 booklets, the first of which is the map book. It provides 25 detailed maplets of the campaign continent, detailing terrain, political/cultural entities and places of interest. The booklet's cover provides the only cohesive picture of the continent which looks vaguely like a combo Europe / Asia / Africa / Australia. Excellent graphics but the cover is a sad substitute for a world map. The next book, the culture book, describes nearly 100 "civilized" and barbarian cultures of the human race. Actually it's not a bad resource, discussing: politics, religion, history and demography. Each entry is less than a page so detail is slight but even if you weren't going to adopt all of the perilous lands into your campaign there are some unique peoples here to chose from. The last book is called the site book and it provides info on 17 locations with adventure potential, and short bits on: adventure design, world politics, deities and calendars. Again the adventure seeds here are good but they all lack enough detail for use without some major work. The lack of depth, and insistence on using too many different calendars to reference dates, makes this supplement difficult to recommend. As a complete campaign it fails, as a resource for campaign creation/expansion it works well. At the $10 price I paid I find myself feeling disappointed, but this is a bargain to be had at $5. Style: 2 (Needs Work) Substance: 3 (Average)

PERILOUS LANDS