Saviors & Destroyers

by Mike Lee, Chuck Wendig, William Brinkman

Demons walk the Earth. They hide in the hearts of the tormented and the depraved, hungry for the faith of mankind. In an age of cynicism and science, they believe themselves forgotten, free to work their wiles without fear of reprisal. But there are those who recognize the signs of the infernal in the world, men and women who see the spirits of the Abyss for what they truly are and realize what must be done. For the sake of the world, they confront the fallen and return them to the Pit of Hell, no matter what the cost.

Saviors and Destroyers details the origins and desperate struggles of the world's demon hunters, men and women who place their lives--and souls--on the line to pull the Earth back from the brink of ruin. Character creation guidelines included in this book present these exorcists as an optional character type for players and as a new breed of antagonist for Storytellers to use in their Demon chronicles.

Genres: World Of Darkness, Role Playing Games

94 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2003

About the author

Mike Lee is an author, scriptwriter and game designer whose most recent credits include Fallen Angels, the latest installment in Black Library Publishing’s best-selling Horus Heresy series, and the dark fantasy epic Nagash the Sorcerer. Along with UK author Dan Abnett, Mike also wrote the five-volume Chronicles of Malus Darkblade, whose signature character has become a cult favorite among fans of Black Library’s Warhammer Fantasy fiction.

In addition to his novels, Mike’s scriptwriting credits include Tom Clancy’s HAWX, a game of near-future jet combat, and Splinter Cell: Conviction, the hit sequel to the popular Splinter Cell franchise published by Ubisoft Entertainment. He has also contributed to more than two dozen pen-and-paper role-playing games and supplements, including the award-winning Vampire: The Masquerade, Adventure!, Vampire: Dark Ages and Hunter: The Reckoning, published by White Wolf Games Studio.

An avid wargamer, history buff and devoted fan of two-fisted pulp adventure, Mike lives with his wife, artist JK Lee, and their family in the United States.

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 1 out of 5]

Off to a bad start with a narrative from the point of view of a religious Jew that just feels off (including definitions of terms that a religious Jew would never feel the need to define to another religious Jew, but probably it is just an artifact of writing for a non-Jewish audience, though none of the authors appear to be Jewish). I focus on this narrative because I can see the "did not do the research" signs in it, though the other two seem to focus less on minorities. This insensitivity and lack of research have plagued the Demon line, and is often the cause of books coming off as racist, ableist, etc, when they are not intended that way.

Aside from this, though, there is the issue of a lack of content. For a book about demon hunters, there's very little general material about demon hunters and even less mechanics. The vast majority of the book is taken up by the fiction, leaving very little room for the promised content. And worse, what's there is lackluster, and I would recommend Arcanum or Hunters Hunted instead, by a large amount.

[Costan Sequeiros · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought Damned & Deceived was going to be the worst book in the DtF line... I was wrong. First of all, like in that book, three of the chapters of the book are devoted to fiction on three hunters and their stories. The stories are nice but if I wanted to read a novel I would do that instead of reading an RPG sourcebook. Then a generic chapter with little valuable information on exorcist characters, mostly a generic set of questions with bland answers to give ideas on how to create those characters. Maybe a very new GM will find some interest in that, or in the few artifacts included there, but that's it. And worse even, the final chapter is the profile of 5 NPCs, like we can't create our own.

So, this is worse than bad, this is insulting.