Seek out the last hundred spells, explore aeons-old ruins and clash blades with demons. The first volume of Jack Vance's Dying Earth has a very different tone to the later books. It has elements of horror, powerful sorcery, and even genuine heroics. This supplements lets you roleplay these puissant magicians, questers and driven heroes.
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a worthy volume for the high minded and studious, who above all have found a purpose in life, even as the Sun wanes --Pyramid
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Robin D. Laws is a writer and game designer. His roleplaying game designs for Pelgrane Press include The Dying Earth, The Esoterrorists¸ Mutant City Blues and Skulduggery . His other roleplaying game designs include Feng Shui , HeroQuest and Og: Unearthed Edition. Among Robins six novels are Pierced Heart, The Rough and the Smooth, and Freedom Phalanx. Always ready to take an intriguing career detour, his various past projects include collectible card games, computer games, and comic books. Google his name to find his blog, a cavalcade of hobby games, film, culture, narrative structure and gun-toting avians.
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An excellent add-on for the Dying Earth RPG,
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This review is from: Turjans Tome (Perfect Paperback)
Turjan's Tome is an add-on for Pelgrane Press's superb Dying Earth RPG, set in Jack Vance's mythical distant future, where technology is forgotten, magic is common, and most of humanity has reverted to selfishness in the face of the impending end of the Sun.
The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game main rulebook, which has all of the core rules, focuses primarily on playing games with characters like Cugel, who are more lucky than skillful. The focus there is primarily on creativity and comic mishaps of the characters, in their a never ending quest for more prestige, wealth, and debauchery. Turjan's tome demonstrates the flexibility of the rule set by being much more serious. Characters like Turjan are much more straightforward and motivated, better at avoiding pointless arguments, quite capable of defending themselves in combat and able to wield potent magic. This book brings some of the desirable game concepts from more traditional roleplaying games into the Dying Earth without losing the spirit of the Dying Earth setting or the superbly simple conflict resolution mechanic of Pelgrane's masterful game. The book provides suggestions for the creation of Turjan characters, four broadly stereotyped sample characters that can be customized for player use, a list of new and sometimes comical magic items, a sort of Narrator checklist of game goals, and many new spells. There's also a short list of suggested reading for people seeking source material, or just entertained by what they've found in the game. I highly recommend this book.
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