Ex-RPGNet Review: Minions – The Fearsome Foes

A great third-party Monster Manual for D20. Minions is a little pricy for its content, but the quality is high. Recommended. Review Originally Published March 13th, 2002 CONTENT Minions: The Fearsome Foes is a third-party monster manual from Bastion Press. It’s a softcover featuring full-color printing on glossy pages, and weighs in at 96 pages. It’s not entirely clear why the product is named Minions: There doesn’t seem to be any particular theme to the monsters found here. (In fact, the Puppetmaster is described as the “ultimate voice of evil in the multiverse” with the possible exception of “the deities themselves”… which would be the exact opposite of a minion in my book.) GOOD STUFF But whether the book is called Minions or Grandpa Fred’s Cookbook, it’s the content that matters, and that’s where Minions delivers: 92 monsters, including templates, are squeezed between the covers – and most of them are good. Very good. A few samples: Amberjuron. An enigma of the forest. The…