Weird War

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Weird War
Weird Wars II: Blood on the Rhine
Designer(s)	John R. Hopler, Shane Lacy Hensley
Publisher(s)	Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Publication date	2001
Genre(s)	Horror
System	D20 System

Weird War (also known as Weird War II/Weird War 2/Weird Wars) is a Horror role-playing game set during World War II produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group (now Great White Games), which uses the D20 System. In it, the players play as Allied Soldiers during the Second World War.

[edit] Setting

Much like D20 Modern, there does exist a supernatural element to the setting, and so characters can expect to face (and drive) haunted vehicles, fight mutant Nazi soldiers and investigate the supernatural. Heroes who face the supernatural often can even be offered membership in the Office of Supernatural Investigations (OSI), which then allows them to take the OSI Chaplain and OSI Adept Prestige Classes (which grant access to Divine and Arcane Magic respectively). Magic is slightly different in this setting, being cast by means of Runes and causing Fatigue to the caster.

Magic does not lie in the hands of the players alone- Hitler and his Nazis have their own magic-users; Blood Mages, who can be amongst the toughest foes the players will face.

Blood Mages are essentially Adepts of Evil Alignment, which grants them the power to draw upon the 'innate evil' of places such as Death Camps and battlefields. Because the only difference between a Blood Mage and an Adept is Alignment, it is possible to play an Allied Blood Mage, though not recommended, as both the OSI and the Sons of Solomon (a secret organization devoted to hiding the supernatural) will come after them if they are discovered.

Magic is low-powered in this setting; Mages only receive spells of up to 6th level, and the only offensive powers in their arsenal are Magic Missile and Cloudkill, which blend in better with the chaos of the battlefield, mimicking bullets and clouds of poison gas respectively.

The books in the setting are:

Blood on the Rhine - the Core rulebook
Afrika Korpse - Sourcebook for Africa and Egypt
Dead From Above - Sourcebook for aircraft and several flying monsters
Horrors of Weird War Two - Beastiary, expanding the list of monsters from Blood on the Rhine and the various Sourcebooks
Land of the Rising Dead - Sourcebook for the Pacific Theatre
Hell in the Hedgerows - Adventure book, containing three adventures
Hell Freezes Over - Sourcebook for the Russian Front