Beneath Two Suns

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Beneath Two Suns

Character levels	6-8
Authors	Troy Denning
First published	1986

Beneath Two Suns is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1986.

Plot summary[]

Beneath Two Suns is a scenario for character levels 6 – 8 located on the planet Kregen, setting for the "Dray Prescott" science-fantasy novels written by Alan Burt Akers. The adventure takes place in a port similar to Italian cities of the Renaissance. The adventurers are embroiled in intrigues between several noble houses as they try to recover a kidnapped princess. It includes statistics for the "Dray Prescott" characters and rules for Florentine fighting (i.e., with sword in right hand and dagger in left).^[1]

In this adventure, the player characters are supplied, from a variety of backgrounds including Victorian London. The adventure begins with characters flung into a sort of limbo, and they wake up in chains breaking rocks in a quarry on the world of Kregen. The adventure includes some notes on local culture and wildlife, taken from the novels. Much of the adventure is laid out similarly to a gamebook.^[2]

Publication history[]

Beneath Two Suns was written by Troy Denning, with a cover by Ken Kelly and illustrations by , and was published by Mayfair Games in 1986 as a 32-page book.^[1]

Reception[]

Graeme Davis reviewed Beneath Two Suns for White Dwarf #90.^[2] He admitted that he had read a couple of the Prescott books, but "wasn't particularly struck by them; hardened fans may well get more out of this adventure than I did".^[2] He calls the adventure "a complicated piece of skullduggery, as can be seen from the daunting-looking flowchart at the front".^[2] He found that the gamebook-like format "may restrict the party's possible actions uncomfortably. Having said that, though, there is a nice balance between fighting and role-playing [...] especially if the GM is prepared to put in a bit of preparation work and wing it if the party get away from the expected plot."^[2]

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