Shadows of Atlantis 2d20 Edition by Bill Heron, John Houlihan, and Lynne Hardy (236pp, retail $20)
Summer 1939. As storm clouds gather over Europe, word reaches the Allies of Dr. Botho Ehrlichmann, a noted academic and scholar. His mysterious disappearance draws Allied agents into a global web of intrigue and the hunt for a legendary artifact that was shattered during the fall of Atlantis. The agents race against time to thwart the machinations of a secret Nazi occult force hell-bent on acquiring this lost knowledge. With the pieces of this lost relic, the Nazis intend to construct a super-weapon that will give the Third Reich a decisive advantage in the coming conflict.
This globe-spanning 230-page Shadows of Atlantis campaign introduces the Secret War with a campaign full of action, intrigue and rip-roaring adventure. The agents travel from Vienna, to Rome, Cairo, Nepal, India and Persia, finishing in the icy wastes of Greenland. This updated 2d20 version includes a new episode set in British Honduras. Includes four pregenerated characters.
The Serpent & the Sands by various designers (288pp, retail $16)
This combined guide and campaign book includes the Guide to North Africa, with new backgrounds and character creation options, adventure seeds, bases and locations for all major factions in the theatre, and a map of Nachtwölfe's top secret Adlerhorst Eagle's Nest base. The epic 10-part campaign takes you from Alexandria to Cairo via Tobruk, visiting lost Alexandrian temples, bizarre oases, sinister caravanserais, and forgotten temples. Foil the machinations of Alom Shallar, a newly awakened Ophidian sorceress who is intent on realizing the destiny of the Evolved Serpent and resurrecting the long-lost Ophidian empire.
The Serpent & the Sands includes a guide to the Serpent People, their history, culture, creatures, technology and equipment, including a new spellbook of Yig. A dedicated chapter covers rules for desert travel and survival.
Forest of Fear by John Houlihan and Bill Heron (220pp, retail price $21)
This late Secret War adventure takes you inside the secret offensive within the Battle of the Bulge! It is December 1944 and the Allied advance after D-Day grinds to a halt on the borders of Fortress Germany. As the first snows fall, Hitler has one last great gambit planned, a massive armored offensive that will split British and US forces and hurl the allies back from the deep-water port of Antwerp. In the assault, a Nazi scientist known as the Blackbird plans to unleash his legion of monstrous panzers and terrifying new shock troops.
Beneath the boughs of this ancient woodland, other forces are also astir, as a cult of evil men seeks to revive an ancient godling and unleash madness and death.
As these powerful forces contend, Section M dispatches a crack team of experienced agents to investigate. Can they thwart the Nazi occult's plans, and foil the rise of the Slumbering Horror? Or will they, like so many others, succumb to the Forest of Fear?
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