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Saga Companion (Dragonlance, 5th Age)

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This book isn't the greatest of all the Fifth Age adventure game supplements, but it is very helpful for those narrators who are extremely creative and need rules for their games.

Please take a saga character without this book. The only thing you know is his scores, name, social status etc. Then take a saga character with this book. We know everything (I MEAN REALLY EVERYTHING) about this character's background. His family, his enemies and even his companions. And for narrators there is a good (I MEAN REALLY GOOD) way to make adventures. What could you have more?

A Saga Companion is a neat, compact addition to the Dragonlance Fifth Age Saga game, TSR's diceless, card-based version of the AD&D Dragonlance game.

A Saga Companion offers a variety of rules simplifications, options, and additions for the Saga game's Narrator, many rules being written by players themselves rather than the TSR staff, who gathered these, their own ideas, and many of the Dragon Magazine's "Sage Advice" columns on the Saga game into one volume. The book, though compact, is concise and extremely easy to use, for the most part merely needing the Fate Deck to perform any action; very occasionally the reader is referred to the Book of the Fifth Age, Heroes of Hope, Heroes of Sorcery, or Heroes of Steel.

Adventure and story design tips (derived in part from Joseph Campbell's works on myth and folklore) are included. This book also offers creation guides for the Narrator to build new hero roles, hero races, monsters, spells, weapons, and armor. Design sheets for personal photocopying are provided for all of these save the weapons and armor.

A Saga Companion, while not perfect, is a must for any Saga game Narrator.

--Sharon Daugherty for Skirmisher Online Gaming Magazine

The Saga Companion (DL) is a supplemental product for the Dragonlance Saga Card Game, first published in the mid-1990s. This game is hard to find, and without it, although this book is packed with information, it will not be able to teach you how to play the game. Also, it may not be accurate lore information for the Dragonlance novel library, but I am not sure, because I do not actually read those books.

I will simply rate this product, based upon some specific areas, with an adjective-based ranking system - which should be easy to understand:

Book Layout. (for it's era and cost): Excellent
Artwork - all line art. (for it's era and cost): Good
For finding information and ease-of-use: Good
Interest level (if you are a fan of RPGs): Excellent
Legibility and writing skill of the author: Excellent
Moral issues involved with this book: Fair
---->(some magic, violence / not blatant, nor is it rendered in detail)
Usefulness to one who plays the game: Good
My estimation of it's potential value: Good
Ability to enhance Role descriptions from the DL:SCG game book: Excellent

All in all, if you really like playing DL:SCG, then get this book, if the price is right. Otherwise, it is a basic and simple supplement, nothing innovative but it could be helpful.

é um bom suplemento com novas regras para combate e magia e resoluçao das ações , tambem possui dicas legais de como criar uma historia e um otimo sistema de geracao de backgrounds de personagens, no final do livro varias tabelas com armas , armaduras e todos roles lancados ate o momento. para os fas de saga uma otima aquisiçao

This book isn't the greatest of all the Fifth Age adventure game supplements, but it is very helpful for those narrators who are extremely creative and need rules for their games.