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Lyonesse Roleplaying Game is Now Available in Print and PDF

Lyonesse - Fantasy Roleplaying Based on the Novels by Jack Vance (Design Mechanism)A new roleplaying game set in the world of Jack Vance’s novels Suldrun’s Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc is available from The Design Mechanism. In Lyonesse, you can embark on adventures as a knight, a wizard, a spy, a merchant, or whatever your imagination desires. You can score the 510 page PDF for $25.00 or snag the print edition for $79.99 at DriveThruRPG.

From Design Mechanism:

Based on the award winning fantasy trilogy by one of Science Fiction and Fantasy’s greatest wordsmiths, Lyonesse transports you to the Elder Isles, where King Casmir plots to seize control of the Ten Kingdoms, assassinate his foes, and prevent a disturbing prophecy from being fulfilled. Elsewhere, the magicians Shimrod, Murgen, and Tamurello are locked in a private battle of wit, will and magical intrigue. All the while, the brutal, disdainful Ska are drawing their own plans of conquest.

And in the immense Forest of Tantrevalles, the secretive fairies watch all that happens with wry amusement, and occasionally meddle in mortal affairs for reasons of their own.

Players in Lyonesse take on the roles of adventurers of the Elder Isles, seeking fame, glory, profit, magic, or simply the promise of a good meal and a soft bed for the night.

Characters can be mercenaries or spies in the service of one (or several) kingdoms; oath-sworn knights eager to do battle with their lord’s enemies; thieves, tricksters or even honest merchants, out to make a just living (sometimes). Perhaps characters are aspiring magicians, keen to emulate the likes of Shimrod, Tamurello, or even the mighty Murgen himself.

Lyonesse is a complete roleplaying game. This book contains everything needed (except dice and friends) for Lyonesse Art (The Design Mechanism)creating fabulous adventures in the Elder Isles. Exhaustive information on the kingdoms and lands of the islands; full rules for characters, skills, combat, magic, and monsters.

Great care has been taken to recreate the style and atmosphere of Jack Vance’s novels, so that Games Masters and Players can fully immerse themselves in the Lyonesse setting.

Special rules for creating towns, taverns, tavernkeepers, and even lovingly described meals are all included, emulating the quintessential elements of the books.

Don your armour! Take up your weapons! Sharpen your wits! Get ready for adventure across Hybras and beyond!

Jeff McAleer

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