A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Amazonia

Amazonia is a role playing game supplement published by Skirmisher Publishing. This is a generic supplement, although one aimed at all Open Game License based games, and is a sample from the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting.

The supplement is available as a 12 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter and one is an ad.

The opening paragraph explains this is a system neutral supplement and is one of 16 full size nation writeups from the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting.

Amazonia explains that the female-ruled state covers the coast along the north shores of the Black Sea and, being ostracised by many surrounding nations, is somewhat isolated and xenophobic. Citizens can be found abroad and, though the nation isn’t expansionistic, there are some colonies. It also gives other names for the country, symbols, government, a military matriarchy, society, which is completely dominated by females, with men definitely second-class citizens, though of many different species resulting in one of the most diverse populations, religion, geography, major communities and economy. There is also a map of the region, which looks to be an old one.

Amazonia Random Encounters is a table of random encounters, which are modified depending on where in the country they are had; whilst technically being d20, results range from 0 or less to 25+ thanks to modifiers. The rest of the supplement is taken up by more detailed descriptions of these encounters.

Amazonia in Review

The PDF is bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. Navigation is decent. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of stock illustrations, most black and white but one colour. Presentation is okay.

This supplement is exactly what it says it is; an overview of a country. Though this may be one of the more detailed writeups for the setting, it isn’t really given a great deal of detail; this would probably make it easy enough to drop into another setting with some tweaking. It is also best suited to D&D and derived games. Amazonia can be found by clicking here.