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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally! A return to Magnamund, 6 Aug 2004
Did you play the Lone Wolf gamebooks in the 1980s? Did you progress into more complicated group-based roleplaying games? If so this is for you.Taking the world of Magnamund 50 years before the destruction of the Kai Monastery in Lone Wolf Book 1, Mongoose have done another great job with a licenced game world. The book does a great job of covering as much of the encyclopediac information about the world of Magnamund as it can within the limited number of pages, and there are already supplements being released with even more. Join the ranks of the original Kai Lords, become a member of the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star, or maybe a Telchoi warrior is more your kind of thing. This game meshes the d20 rules system with the original concepts of the gamebooks with the style only available from the talented writers and game designers at Mongoose Publishing. Hit Points have become Endurance, Attack Bonus has become Combat Skill. All of the Kai (and Magnakai) Disciplines are here in d20 format, along with spells for the Brotherhood of the Crystal Star and Magicians of Dessi. This book is a complete d20 game, with character creation and experience rules. You do not need any other rulebooks to play, although it can also alternatively be used as a sourcebook with the OGL Fantasy or D&D rules, with a section on how to achieve this in the book.
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