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Central Casting: Heroes of Legend (2nd Edition) Paperback – January 1, 1995

by Robert Sassone (Author)

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A generic game aid for use with any fantasy role-play game. Creates detailed character histories using dice tables. Includes role-play hints, gameplay benefits and guidelines for fitting skills into any roleplay rules system.

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Task Force Games
Publication date

January 1, 1995
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0922335702
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978-0922335701
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Task Force Games (January 1, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 0 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0922335702
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0922335701
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds

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Win

Is fun to use and still a great tool for any kind of character creation

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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I got super lucky when I was able to get my hands on this at a decent price but this is one of the most fun and helpful tools for character creations and not just for tabletop RPing.

It's good for someone like me who enjoys both writing and roleplaying and I feel like I just end up creating the same character over and over again. This will help spice things up!

Or if you're some of my friends who are new to tabletop RPing in general; where most of their answers seem to be "idk" when you ask about their character's history/personality/literally anything, this will also help A LOT!

Probably not a necessity by the end of the day, but definitely worth getting if you're ever stuck or need some inspiration

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Aaron Rosenthal

Great character backstory help

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013

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I ordered a copy for a friend who is a serious tabletop gamer; he already had an old copy but had mentioned he was looking for a replacement. I cannot stress enough how awesome this book is- it is the most detailed character background/personality generator you will find. There are pdf versions of this online that you can torrent from various sites, but using the charts and tables in such a manner is a hassle. Nothing beats having this type of source in book format at your fingertips.

If this wasn't such a rare book and so expensive, I would order another for myself.

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Ronald Harrison

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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2014

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A good book on character personality and character history development. Useful if used with good judgement. It was pretty good

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Not sure how to rate this

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

I had all of these books back in the day, but the current price is ridiculous. I would say that while they are a great tool for any tabletop rules system... that it is not worth the hole in your wallet to pay these outrageous prices. The internet is free. There are plenty of random tables that will figure out your background.

So, as far as the book it gets 3 stars. I'm going to give it a one-star rating due to the price gougers.

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2019

Or more specifically, $12,839.77. I have heard rave reviews about this book, but apparently there is only one in existence to justify such an insane price for what most people consider a hobby. But instead of selling it (Half Price Books? Really? Half price? It's not a car) for what would be a fair and reasonable price, they are attempting to retire when they find someone with far too much money and even know of this book. I would love to own this one day, but find another sucker will to shell out their hard earned money.

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Doc Beowulf

I was saddened to see that there has been confusion ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2014

I was saddened to see that there has been confusion associated with authorship of material in this book. Jennell Jaquays has it right when she points out that Paul was sole author of the character creation system in both editions. I redid the layout and added the new fictional material that Jennell refers to as "color material".

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Jennell A. Jaquays

Get the Authors Straight

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2013

Clarification for historical purposes: The second edition of Heroes of Legend brings a number of the refinements created for the science fiction and modern character books to bear upon the fantasy topic. Robert Sassone is, more correctly, the editor of Central Casting: Heroes of Legend 2nd Edition. He created the new, looser layout style, added the "color material" that replaced most of the art in the second edition. Jaquays was employed by TSR as an artist at the time and could not significantly participate in revisions to the book. History should record that the character creation content is ALL Jaquays's work, and not Sassone's.

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I can type

Great RPG resource! Review of 2nd edition as compared to 1st edition

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2011

I have both the 1st and 2nd editions of Heroes of Legend. I give each edition 5 out of 5 stars because each is a great resource for building characters including backgrounds, occupations, hobbies, traits, contacts & acquaintances and more. Either edition can be used as a system with dice to generate a complete character (other than stats which will be determined by the RPG system you use), or the tables can be scanned for ideas. The book is so good that I hope for the sake of others that someday it is back in print or made available in electronic format.

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