Demons of the Burning Night
tabletop role-playing game adventure
Demons of the Burning Night is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Rolemaster published by Iron Crown Enterprises.
Contents
Demons of the Burning Night is a supplement in which the setting is the demon city Tarak Nev.
Publication history
Demons of the Burning Night was written by Matthew Power, with a cover by Tony Roberts, and illustrations by Jennell Jaquays, and was published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1989 as a 72-page book.
Reception
Oliver Johnson reviewed four supplements for RoleMaster set in Shadow World at the same time, in the August 1989 issue (#8) of Games International magazine: Journey to the Magic Isle, Demons of the Burning Night, Quellbourne: Land of the Silver Mist, and Tales of the Loremasters. Collectively, he concluded "too much of it is of the ‘seen it and done it all before’ variety" and that "Creatures and settings here are the worst side of amorphic[] all mush [sic] together into an unpalatable stew". To Demons specifically he awarded 2 1/2 stars out of 5, stating that "All in all rather disappointing. Too much of the adventuring involves ability rolls rather than genuine role-playing and clues that the gamers can figure out for themselves.
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