Hordes of the Underdark Review at Warcry

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

Warcry have reviewed Hordes of the Underdark, giving it a score of 89%, and including a screenshot of beautiful elven lass in plate armour. Here's a clip:

The new prestige classes are very exciting, although as any hardcore D&D fan will point out, they don't necessarily translate exactly from the Wizards of the Coast sources material. This can be a little frustrating at first. For instance, Dragon Disciples don't advance in a spellcasting class along with the Disciple class...this can allow you to start the game with a 15th level character that can only cast level three sorcerer spells and will get eaten for breakfast by a troll. Only druids can become shifters, where in the WotC books, any class that can polymorph or change shape can take this class. Aside from these minor issues, the prestige classes are still unique and fun to play. The Weapons Master is an excellent choice for those players that like warriors that focus on one weapon (most warriors do anyhow). Alas, my poor wizard is still missing the Archmage prestige class.

New player head models are excellent, but a small minority of them don't look very heroic. Instead, they look more like people you'd see in any downtown present-day metropolis: balding, bad haircuts, piercings, and no chins. I'm not sure I'd want to play a cleric that looks like he could be my accountant. The new monsters are brilliant and in some cases I would said are better interpretations than what I have seen in the WoTC books.

Read the whole thing at Warcry.