Rating: [ 6.31 / 10.00 ]
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Billed as "A World Born without Love", Valus is a grim, low-fantasy d20 campaign setting. Recurrent themes are a high mortality rate, uncaring gods, racism, xenophobia, and moral ambiguity. The dark tone is primarily promoted though the setting's flavor text, but the book does include a number of rules changes.
Valus was originally Ryan Smalley's homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign world. In 2003, he began posting "Sins of Our Fathers", which chronicled the adventures of his real-life gaming group's PCs, in the Story Hour forum of ENWorld. The quality of the writing resulted in a publishing contract, and in 2005 Valus was nominated for an ENnie.
Valus was originally Ryan Smalley's homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign world. In 2003, he began posting "Sins of Our Fathers", which chronicled the adventures of his real-life gaming group's PCs, in the Story Hour forum of ENWorld. The quality of the writing resulted in a publishing contract, and in 2005 Valus was nominated for an ENnie.
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8.5" x 11", perfect bound, 176 black & white pages.Game Editions | [ Add Edition | Edit Edition ] |
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| 4 + 5 | NPC Jeremy | Valus. An extremely well constructed dark, gritty, realistic world for d20/D&D with a detailed mythology that rivals Harn or Glorantha. In many ways the anti-Eberron of settings. But not really an entire world, most of the focus is on a 600 mile island, so it can be incorporated into most existing d20/D&D settings. [ Read Review ] |
| 4 + 4 | Jannica Thales | Valus. Valus is a d20 fantasy campaign setting that possesses a strong ability to create and maintain mood. It boasts that it is a “dark & brutal world” with a “high mortality rate”. [ Read Review ] |
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| 9 / 10 | Sleeper | I bought this because the Sins of Our Fathers story hours are simply the best game-related pieces of fiction I've ever read, professional or no. As a sourcebook, it's also effective. The setting is distinct and well contained, and the dark tone is reinforced with only minimal changes to the default d20 system. |
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