I just picked up the City of Brass for D20, newly released boxed-set Dice-and-Paper game supplement by Necromancer Games. A bunch of us have been expecting something like this since 1979, when the 1st edition Dungeon Master's Guide came out with the Efreet on the front and the view of the City of Brass on the back. Though I was late to the party, not discovering it until 1981. I always wondered what was going on, what the City of Brass might be like (beyond the story from 1001 Arabian Nights). Many of us expected TSR to come out with the City of Brass module or campaign setting back then... and it never really happened.


But this new one is something like 430+ pages of adventures (in a mini-campaign for higher-level characters) and sourcebook materials broken into three books, plus a 24-page map booklet. From what I have seen so far, it's really pretty nice. The one downside is that if you have Necromancer's three monster books, the "Tomes of Horrors," about half of the third book is redundant information.

Still, from what little I've been able to dig into so far, it's got the flavor I've been expecting. It's pretty "old school" feel, which is a specialty of Necromancer Games (and Goodman Games, I guess I should add), though the production values and mechanics are definitely modern.

Sorry, not much of value to CRPG fans here... thanks for putting up with me geeking out for a few minutes.