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Secret Weapon Project -- Game Review

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The Secret Weapons Project is a nice little supplement for the Starfinder role-playing game. This book only has 4 pages of game content, and it offers rules for 4 unique items: The combustion lance-- a melee weapon that does explosive damage in a 5' radius, the implosion grenade--a weapon that that pulls enemies toward it and damages them in the process, the grapnel harpoon--a gun used to grapple enemies, and reactive pannels--armor upgrades that explode outward and damage enemies who attack. Though this is all you get with this book, they make for some nice additions to any Starfinder game. These items offer more than just another blaster or suit of armor. They're unique items that take a departure from what you see in the core rules. This selection serves game masters with a way to surprise their players who don't expect to make an attack against an armored opponent, only to have it literally blow up in their face, or to take damage from the melee attack that happened against the person standing next to them. On top of providing some clever options for GMs, it must be noted that the book has a very flavorful presentation, from the narrative accounts of the history of these items, to the page layout and artwork that are very befitting of Starfinder, the designers did a nice job of putting this together. I'd like to see more like this from them in the form of a longer equipment guide.

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