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Affiliation Guide: United Human Front (for AMP: Year Two) $3.99
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Affiliation Guide: United Human Front (for AMP: Year Two)
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Affiliation Guide: United Human Front (for AMP: Year Two)
Publisher: Third Eye Games
by Karl L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/23/2016 14:29:06

This supplement puts the spotlight on one of the bad guys of AMP. It has some interesting highlights, but suffers under a few huge issues.

It is one of the Strengths of AMP: Year One, that the issues it describes are so allegorical to real world social issues. Furthermore, the game treats all as equals, allowing players to create characters from across the political and legal specter.

Nevertheless, the game is clearly slanted to the left, something which puts a supplement like this in an awkward position. The UHF are the game's version of right-wing groups, just replacing AMPs with Mexicans/Muslims/Colored/Gays/Whatever. The supplement lets you know more about the UHF if you wanted to play that, but I think few would. On the other hand, it can be used as a supplement for the PCs enemies, but since the supplement isn't written like that, it is less effective in this capacity.

Still, it is a fairly interesting supplement, which shows the many faces of UHF. Its recruitment, tactics and disorganized structure are all covered; and the organization has more depth than it first seems. It turns out it has secret genetic tampering project, which can give its members super powers. In a way, it feels a bit like this goes against the concept of the faction, but hey, it's a supers game, so why not.

The biggest problem with the supplement is the scenario at the end, about a third of the page count. It is horrible. Even after multiple readings, I had a hard time understanding what was going on. It is very unclear why the PCs would even want to follow the investigation, and after a chain of chaotic events, they might even be thrown out of it all together.

The highlight of the supplement was the rules for genetic tampering. It gives the UHF an unexpected edge, and can offer some cool and unique enemies in a game. Probably worth the supplement alone, but I wish there was more useful stuff here, like some of the other Affiliation Guides.



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