A wizard in his magic laboratory works a scrying spell to spy on a hero within the midst of a battle. Behind him, the open window gives a view over a forested land with one other fortress citadel within the distance.
That window additionally supplies a serious office security danger, as do the opposite ones you possibly can see out of it. Simply have a look at the peak of the windowsills and take into account how simple they make it to fall out for those who stumble, slip, journey or get a light-weight push. Hope you have obtained Feather Fall memorized, pal.
Lore of the Land (Andrew Finch): We return once more to the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant to element some new character courses for the assorted Lore Lords of the novels. They’re a type of magic consumer/cleric, and whereas this makes them fairly potent I can’t actually see them becoming a member of an adventuring celebration very simply as this feels extra on an NPC class. Nonetheless, some helpful choices will be discovered right here.
That collection is far reviled for its sexual assault scene early within the first e book and has been for years, however that is one more proof pf how standard it was again within the 80s. The hype round it was monumental at first, and Donaldson actually rode Tolkein’s coattails higher than simply about any of his friends aside from Brooks.
I used to be 14 at that time and I bear in mind needing to get permission from a college counsellor to learn the final Narnia e book, however Thomas Covenant? Positive, go proper forward, that is okay. In hindsight, I want I would skipped each.
Survival (Bob McWilliams): This can be a pull out solitaire board recreation set within the Traveller universe, which appears similar to the earlier “Barbarian” recreation a number of points in the past. The participant is a scout who has obtained stranded on an alien planet after escaping their ship in a lifepod. Can they make it throughout hostile terrain to the Assist Station the place they’ll name for assist, or will they fall prey to the flora, fauna or terrain of the planet beforehand?
The higher of two solo video games from the magazine that Process Drive Video games bundled into the Survival/the Barbarian microgame. In contrast to Barbarian, it really has some replay worth and a number of situations, has some respectable assist by their Nexus journal, and your selections matter greater than uncooked luck. Barbarian has one boring state of affairs and depends totally on luck for victory.
Character Conjuring: This difficulty the character class is The Service provider by Roger Moore. This class is properly thought of, with their most important capacity being to speak and make offers, even when the individuals they wish to discuss to are combating. Just like the Alchemist, it’s exhausting to see them as adventurers, however they may definitely accompany one among their very own caravans to verify it will get to the correct place.
A few years later we get the Peddler in Forbidden Lands, who could be very positively a helpful participant class with supposedly mundane skills which are way more magical-feeling (and extra useable with much less danger) than something the precise spellcasters have. Positive, on a regular basis wandering tradesmen can simply pull random objects and cash out of their stock once they really feel like exerting themselves. Completely not magical, you guess.
One other new launch “Treasure of the Silver Dragon” comes with an actual world treasure hunt. Play the sport to uncover clues to the situation of a silver dragon statue. Though it appears nobody discovered the statue, however whether or not it was as a result of the sport didn’t promote or the clues have been too exhausting I can’t appear to find! Remark if you realize any extra to the story.
That is the primary of two “treasure hunt” microquests from Metagaming, utilizing the identical engine as Melee and Wizard (ie a less complicated model of The Fantasy Journey). The prize was discovered by Thomas Davidson six weeks after the sport was launched, and there was additionally a $10K money reward as a part of that prize.
The semi-sequel Treasure of Unicorn Gold had the identical common setup, and even at present there’s debate over anybody discovered the prize or if it even existed in any respect, since Metagaming shut down utterly not lengthy after launch and lengthy earlier than they’d have been holding a random draw if it hadn’t been discovered. A number of individuals have claimed to labored out a location of the statue and located nothing, and there is by no means been any announcement from Howard Thomson AFAIK. There’s persevering with doubts about whether or not the prize (which included the identical money payout) even existed or if this was a rip-off. Howard wrote each of them and might be the one one that may say for positive until somebody does discover the statuette.
Used a barely tweaked model of the sooner Snapshot guidelines. Amusingly, you generally see the alternative claimed (ie Snapshot arose from AHL) however no, SS got here out two years earlier than. Most likely the biggest set of deck plans ever for Traveller, regardless of many decks (gasoline tankage, principally) utilizing the very same map. Even the large FASA ones did not high this recreation. Additionally had fairly just a few situations to play, together with one the place a crippled ship is steadily “sinking” in a gasoline large and native life types have begun boarding.
By far the strongest of TFG’s solo video games as properly.
