Reviews for Lord of the Iron Fortress

The average rating for Lord of the Iron Fortress based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-17 00:00:00 dane robart Great sourcebook for when you need extra mature options for the villains your players are going to face. While the appendix does give you options for playing such villains, I think the options were designed with NPCs in mind. It packs in lots of options, some of the interesting ones include two new subraces, lots of evil spells, your typical assortment of feats, and new magical items; all themed with evil and horror. There's also background, stat blocks, and plot hooks for the demon lords of Abyss and the diabolic rulers of the Nine Hells. Some of the poorer bits include the small section on new monsters. I think it's minor and uninteresting enough that they shouldn't have bothered, and used that space for fleshing out the other sections. The prestige classes were pretty poor I think. The majority of them were meant to be themed to their respective demon lord or devil prince, but I didn't find them coherent or thematically interesting. What I would have liked to see more was more evil ideas and hooks. For example, the options on drug use and torture was useful, but would have been better if ideas on how to use them were also present. Overall though it's a great resource for options you could throw in sparingly into your campaigns, even if you don't want to deal with the subjective morality questions raised in the book.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-02 00:00:00 Brian Jensen A strange book which varies between interesting and (probably unintentionally) hilarious. On the interesting side, you have stats and information on the Demon Princes of the Abyss and the Archdevils of the Nine Hells, and their respective plots and deranged mortal cultists. Plus, there are plenty of new spells, items, and prestige classes (although some of them fit into the Stupid Evil category). There are definitely some good ideas floating about, among the daftness. Also, some of the art is pretty good, if creepy. On the hilarious side, there is the "serious" attempt at looking at the concept of Evil. Except, this is a mix of actual evil (but handled in a very simplistic manner), taboo but not necessarily evil (S&M, drug addiction....) and the most insanely Stupid Evil stereotype of some bad guy who has never read the Evil Overlord List. Like... some filth-streaked, devil worshipping "psychopath" (although the book also has its own special definition of psychopathy) who practices black magic, eats kittens, and twirls his evil moustache while tying women to train tracks and cackling maniacally. I'm honestly not sure if I'd recommend this or not.