You also have a good and bad personality trait to prevent you character being a set of numbers on a page. For example, being extremely small gives you +1 on hiding tests and -1 on jumping tests. Extreme values have a small effect on your stats. Here you randomly generate the physical description of your character – age, height and build. There are several backgrounds that you can choose from with a short description of what your life was like in that particular background.Ĭhoosing your background gives you access to a skill or some equipment or money.Ģ) Generate your character’s description. Now I will go through the chapters of the book and what they cover.Ĭharacter creation is a five step process: I enjoy looking at maps, especially world maps and I thought this was the best piece of art in the book. The double page map (above) is both very detailed and very pretty to look at.
I prefer the sketches to the computer generated images, but that’s a personal preference.
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There are plenty of smaller illustrations though, including pictures of a member of each profession, a picture of each monster (unfortunately, they are behind their description so we can’t see them in their full glory) and other scenes. There are a few full page illustrations of scenes in rooms and bits of buildings. The book itself is about the size and shape of A4 (it is a bit shorter and a bit wider.) It is softback with a colour illustration on the cover and black and white illustrations inside.
I’m the sort of person who just wants to get the information, but aesthetics are important to a book, so I will give my inexpert opinion. This is taken from the Fabled Lands Blog. The map of Harkuna (it is black and white in the source book) This means that you will have to read all of the rules before you get a good idea of how they work. One of the cons in the books is that it uses terms before they are defined and that it lacks an index or glossary for you to look them up. Those of use who have read both could start up a quest or two in next to no time. Also, those of us who have used a D20 system will find some skills and rules familiar. You will just need to learn the new rules made for the RPG. The game rules are very simple but they are still very well explained and examples are given for combat (the only vaguely complicated part of the rules.) Those of us who have already read the Fabled Lands gamebooks will already have a good knowledge of the background of Harkuna and the basic rules. It is also easy to see which chapters you may want to miss out if you are anxious to start a game and don’t want to read what the setting is all about. The contents page is very detailed, listing all of the headings in the book, so it is easy to see what the chapter is about. Game information is presented in a clear systematic way so it is pretty easy to find on a page. I found the sourcebook a very easy and interesting read. Now, Greywood Publishing plan on releasing a sourcebook for each of the twelve Fabled Lands books with the Sokara (the land from book 1) book out in September and the Golnir (the land from book 2) book out in December. However, the gamebooks have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity with beautifully designed apps, reprints of the first four books and now an RPG version. Twelve gamebooks were planned but only six were published. The idea behind the books was to create what is now known as a sandbox setting.
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Fabled Lands was a series of gamebooks written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thompson.
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