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Artesia: Adventures In The Known World RPG

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This is not only an amazing read for Artesia fans...but its got to be one of the most comprehensive rpg books I've ever seen. Lots of information, great artwork, excellent easy system to use. I've been "retired" from playing rpg's for over ten years now, but I was such a fan of the Artesia comics that I picked this up. Artesia rpg gave me faith in rpg books again. Much like the old ICE Merp books, its just got tons of information and paints the scene for you to fill in the blanks. Get this book!!!

I had thought that the days of all inclusive rule books had long passed. Most companies seem to focus on grinding out book after book of questionable quality, milking their product for all it's worth. But this book is an example of what should be the gold standard. Not only does it provide a setting with more depth then other games achieve after decades of dubious supplemental materials, and provide simple, working rules, to cover all aspects of the game, but it's a joy to just page through it. Not just the wonderful illustrations and maps, but even the layout is heads and sholders above it's "main stream" rivials.

There are a lot of things to be said about this book. It's a lavish and sumptuous offering for both Artesia fans and RPG fans alike. The breadth of information about our beloved Artesia, and the world she occupies is staggering and entertaining. The RPG aspects of the book have interesting mechanics and character generation is both fun and engrossing. The aspect I love most about it, is as a graphic designer it is wonderfully designed. As a book it is a finely crafted work of art. You can tell that thought and care was put into every aspect of its production. Very well done. Mark has done an outstanding job and I wish other companies would follow his lead. The world could use more RPG prouducts of this caliber.

Este escenario de campaña reune, en un solo y francamente magnífico volumen, toda la información necesaria para adentrarse en el "Mundo Conocido" de los comics homónimos obra de Mark Smylie. Si bien el manual de campaña emplea el sistema Fuzion TM, se puede adaptar sin mayor dificultad a cualquier otro sistema de juego. La información contenida en este manual es, sencillamente, abrumadora, por lo que podemos ahorrarnos la necesidad de ampliar datos comprando una infinita cantidad de sumplementos, cosa ahora tan de moda en este mundillo. A la gran cantidad de datos y el atractivo de este mundo de juego (si lo tuyo es la fantasía de corte histórico no te lo puedes perder), hay que añadir que en el apartado gráfico Artesia es, sencillamente, genial. Una delicia para los ojos.
Lo dicho, si estás interesado en adentrarte en una ambientación de baja fantasía, con numerosas referencias al mundo clásico, y encima quieres disfrutar visualmente, "Artesia: Adventures in the Known World" es una opción que debes de tener en cuenta.

I have yet to actually read any of the comic books this RPG is based on, but this book is all you need to play the RPG. The book contains a tremendous amount of detailed information about the dramatic history of the Known World, which is so real-sounding it's hard to believe Mark Smylie was able to come up with this stuff on his own. The game uses a unique kind of experience system based on Tarot-like paths of decision making. The gameplay is based on the Fuzion system, which I dislike, but the game makes up for the system's shortcomings with a wealth of new systems for spells, enchantments, inscriptions (weird runes of power), potions, alchemy (not the same thing), divination, and religious invocations. There's also some really cool options available for interacting with the afterlife, and the game gives an interesting way for parents to pass on their abilities to their children. Making a character is a detailed and fulfilling process. The combat system is realistic and extremely lethal when more than bare fists are involved. Get this game if you like to roleplay deep characters.

I really love looking through this game, really love making characters for it, really love the idea of playing in this world. But the system (which was borrowed from another game with some modifications) doesn't really work for me, and although I tried to run the game, it never worked out. Still, it's lovely, the sort of thing you can keep on your shelf with joy just for the prospect of looking through it. That's why I still have it, long after many other RPG books are gone.

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This book is probably the better looking RPG book I ever seen.
Hope you will be as much fascinated by it as I did .
Now I will go and read it. Sorry if this is not an in-depth review, but english is not my natural language.
Nevertheless i felt the urge to write something.