Remarks: Necessary Evil Explorer Edition

The new edition of the Savage Worlds supers setting is out, and it’s fantastic. All the rules you need to create super powered characters, a complete campaign, full color throughout, in the digest-sized Explorer Edition format, $20. Absolutely wonderful. Everything you need, except the core rules, is in this book. More like this, please.

In Necessary Evil, aliens have invaded and wiped out all of the superheroes. The only people standing between the invaders and the total conquest of Earth are its supervillains. Because they’re adept had evading the law, the alien security forces can’t catch them. They form up into resistance cells, battling a guerrilla war. Some of the villains oppose the aliens because they have designs on ruling the Earth themselves. Others are finding out what it means to be a hero and liking it. The setting offers up so many possibilities, but it comes with a whole campaign’s worth of adventures. Playing villains is a nice twist, especially since the setting is very Silver Age-y, but for players who don’t like playing evil characters there’s bigger villains in the aliens.

For those who already own the original Necessary Evil, this edition has been cleaned up to work with Explorer Edition rules, has a new chapter in the Plot Point campaign, and is in the awesome, easy to read, easy to carry Explorer Edition format. And it’s $20. Worth buying again, if for no other reason than to have an spare set of the supers rules for players to reference.

Buy Necessary Evil: Explorer’s Edition (Savage Worlds, S2P10011)