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Nyambe: African Adventures

In the land of the Overpower, the jaws of the crocodile are the only reward for the unwary.

Nyambe is a vast land of exotic creatures and wide expanses, where ancestral orishas cry for brave tribal warriors to carve out the hearts of foul mchawi wizards, and where dragon-blooded sorcerers once joined the fierce Amazons of Nibomay in the bloody Rebelling Time to win their freedom. This eagerly anticipated campaign setting for the D20 System brings together high fantasy and African myth, legend, and history in a hardcover sourcebook of epic proportions for both players and GMs.

Nyambe: African Adventures includes:

  • Twelve new human tribal cultures and six variant non-human races, like the brown-skinned, tailed Wakyambi elves who meddle in the affairs of men from the depths of the bIda rainforest.
  • New core class variants and prestige classes change druids into shamen who worship the natural orisha spirits and are as comfortable in the skin of a panther as in humanoid form.
  • New skills and feats like Ancestral Blessing, Drum Dancer, Elephant Warrior, and Fire Blood are the heritage of every Nyamban, as well as new weapons, armor, and equipment designed for a tropical climate where the heat of the vast savannah is more dangerous than an enemy's spear.
  • The spirit-worship of the mortals has called upon the orisha for new spells and domains such as Darkness, Exile, Fertility, Lightning, and Plague ever since the Dark Time when the Overpower ascended into the sky on the web of a giant spider.
    Mad omurogo wizards contemplate the contents of mojuba bags to prepare their divination spells, and new magic items like zombi powder turn fallen warriors into true zombis that keep a hideous memory of their former lives. Ritual masks let the wearer become an orisha, and vodou nkisi statues hurl powerful curses at those who dare to use them.
  • And in the dark interior of the continent lurk creatures never before seen by the men of the tamed north lands ... ravenous beasts of the jungle and desert are only the beginning of the danger that awaits those who walk the lands of Nyambe!


Author: Chris Dolunt | Editor: Michelle Nephew
Cover Artist: Mike Dutton
Stock Number: AG3700 | ISBN: 1-58978-023-X | MSRP: $37.95 (US)
Format: 256 pages (16 pages full color), 8.5" x 11", case bound
Release Date: 2002

 

 

Ancestral Vault

A Sourcebook of Magic Items

A Treasury of Exotic Wonders

Drawn from the sweltering rainforests and dangerous savannahs of Nyambe, Ancestral Vault brings gamers a rich hoard of African-flavored treasures and equipment. This 96-page perfect bound sourcebook describes mundane D20 System equipment, special and superior items, and magical objects of all degrees of power. Though designed for use with the Atlas Games Nyambe: African Adventures setting, these items can find their way into any campaign as exotic treasures from faraway lands.

Ancestral Vault includes:

  • New magical rings, rods, staves, wands, potions, wondrous items, cursed items, and artifacts.
    Rules for magical games, and alternate magic item creation feats.

  • New adventuring equipment, tool kits, ship rules, trade goods, armor, shields, and weapons, as well as fixes for the lack of armor in Nyambe.

  • Rules for using natural medicine to create ritual scars and herbal concoctions.

  • Magic item tables for all the items in Ancestral Vault as well as those found in Nyambe: African Adventures.

Authors: Chris Dolunt, Chris Jones | Editor: Michelle Nephew
Cover Artist: Steven Sanders | Interior Artists: Chad Sergesketter, Steven Sanders
Stock Number: AG3702 | ISBN: 1-58978-040-X | MSRP: $19.95 (US)
Format: 96 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound
Release Date: 2003

 

Dire Spirits

An Introductory Adventure for 1st-Level Characters

The fearsome bounty hunter KanUk -- a kosan orc from the Mythical Ages of Nyambe-tanda -- was long ago bound into the body of an undead dire lion. His savagery knew no bounds among the helpless slaves of his land until he was defeated in the Great Rebellion, and his spirit was shunted into his own still-beating undead heart. This heart has rested undisturbed in a foul shrine for thousands of years, protected by the magical wards erected by the kosans before they fled. But not even kosan magic is eternal, and just over a month ago, the wards collapsed, exposing the shrine to the outside world. When this malignant heart begins to assemble animal slaves intent on locating a new body for their evil master, a group of brave warriors must find and destroy it before it orchestrates KanUk's rebirth, and all of Nyambe-tanda falls beneath his claws!

Dire Spirits is a D20 System adventure for 1st-level characters. It provides an introduction to the Nyambe: African Adventures campaign setting, though it can also be used as a stand-alone scenario. It is recommended, but not necessary, that players own the Nyambe hardcover sourcebook (stock number AG3700).

This 48-page module includes:

  • A map and description of the village of Mounchili, a typical community in the Empire of Mabwe, that can become the PCs' base in a larger campaign.
  • Rules for generating the family compounds typical of Nyamban villages.
  • Maps and descriptions of the ancient temple that contains KanUk's still-beating heart.
  • Pregenerated PCs and stats for agogwe halfling warriors, wakyambi elf adepts, and Nghoi human commoners, to start any GM off right in an African Adventures setting.
  • New D20 material like the howling fern monstrous plant, rainforest zombies, the fearsome pseudo-lich template, rules for monkey traps and trip line and spikes traps, the wondrous linguist's staff, and the magical disease called wound rot.

Author: Chris Dolunt | Editor: Michelle Nephew
Cover Artist: Steven Saders | Interior Artists: John Davis, Brian Figur
Stock Number: AG3701 | ISBN: 1-58978-029-9 | MSRP: $12.95 (US)
Format: 48 pages, 8.5" x 11", saddle stitched
Release Date: 2002


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