Lejendary Adventure
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Lejendary Adventure is a role-playing game
created by Gary Gygax
, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, and creator of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Gygax had originally devised Lejendary Adventure as a computer role-playing game using a simple and rules-light system based on skill-bundles, but subsequently decided to develop the game as a printed fantasy RPG.
Like other role-playing games, Lejendary Adventure is played using polyhedral dice, pencils, paper, and sometimes miniatures. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, Lejendary Adventure has a player character creation system that is skill-based, resulting in very flexible character creation to allow role-playing of almost any kind of character. Lejendary Adventures still provide Archetypes using "Orders." Orders are guild-like organizations in the world that provide benefits to the characters. Players can also choose to be unordered. Your Order is determined by your first chosen ability. Some orders include the Noble, Rogue, Elementalist, and of course, Unordered. Unordered characters still advance, but do so without the benefit of a guild.
Various races are also available, with definitions somewhat different from other RPGs, as well as completely new races; races in Lejendary Adventure include Dwarves
, Ilves
, Wylves (Ilves and Wylves are two of many Fair Alfar, i.e. what are usually called elves in other RPGs), Gnome
s, Kobold
s, and Veshoge. As for character advancement, instead of levels, Lejendary Adventure characters receive Merits - points that can be used to increase their Abilities or Base Ratings, as well as buy new Abilities.
The standard campaign setting is Lejendary Earth or Learth. Learth is described in several books.
Also, Lejendary Adventure uses some unique terms such as Lejend Master [LM] (Game Master [GM]) and Avatar (Player Character [PC]).
Lejendary Adventure products are published by both Hekaforge Productions and Troll Lord Games
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In addition, more general RPG books offer some new Lejendary Adventure material as well (Orders, etc.).
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
created by Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games....
, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, and creator of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Gygax had originally devised Lejendary Adventure as a computer role-playing game using a simple and rules-light system based on skill-bundles, but subsequently decided to develop the game as a printed fantasy RPG.
Like other role-playing games, Lejendary Adventure is played using polyhedral dice, pencils, paper, and sometimes miniatures. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, Lejendary Adventure has a player character creation system that is skill-based, resulting in very flexible character creation to allow role-playing of almost any kind of character. Lejendary Adventures still provide Archetypes using "Orders." Orders are guild-like organizations in the world that provide benefits to the characters. Players can also choose to be unordered. Your Order is determined by your first chosen ability. Some orders include the Noble, Rogue, Elementalist, and of course, Unordered. Unordered characters still advance, but do so without the benefit of a guild.
Various races are also available, with definitions somewhat different from other RPGs, as well as completely new races; races in Lejendary Adventure include Dwarves
Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters...
, Ilves
Elf
An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...
, Wylves (Ilves and Wylves are two of many Fair Alfar, i.e. what are usually called elves in other RPGs), Gnome
Gnome
A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature...
s, Kobold
Kobold
The kobold is a sprite stemming from Germanic mythology and surviving into modern times in German folklore. Although usually invisible, a kobold can materialise in the form of an animal, fire, a human being, and a candle. The most common depictions of kobolds show them as humanlike figures the size...
s, and Veshoge. As for character advancement, instead of levels, Lejendary Adventure characters receive Merits - points that can be used to increase their Abilities or Base Ratings, as well as buy new Abilities.
The standard campaign setting is Lejendary Earth or Learth. Learth is described in several books.
Also, Lejendary Adventure uses some unique terms such as Lejend Master [LM] (Game Master [GM]) and Avatar (Player Character [PC]).
Lejendary Adventure products are published by both Hekaforge Productions and Troll Lord Games
Troll Lord Games
Troll Lord Games is an American publisher of role-playing games , The Crusader magazine and other board/dice/card games....
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Lejendary Adventure products
(Some adventures are also compatible with d20D20 System
The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
):
- Rule Books:
- The Lejendary Rules for All Players – Fantasy Role-Playing Game core rulebook, Hekaforge Productions, 1999
- The Lejend Master's Lore – Fantasy Role-Playing Game core rulebook, Hekaforge Productions, 2000
- The Beasts of Lejend – Fantasy Role-Playing Game core rulebook, Hekaforge Productions, 2000
- Campaign World Books:
- Lejendary Earth Gazetteer – World Setting sourcebook Part 1, Hekaforge Productions, 2002
- Noble Knights and Dark Lands – LE World Setting Part 2, (Gary Gygax with Chris Clark) Hekaforge Productions, 2003
- The Exotic Realms of Hazgar – LE World Setting Part 3, (Gary Gygax with Chris Clark) Hekaforge Productions, 2006
- Jewels of the East (upcoming)
- Adventure Scenarios:
- Terekaptra: Lost City of the Utiss
- Enclave – (Chris Clark), Adventure module editor, Hekaforge Productions, 2000
- The Lejendary Road (Jon Creffield)
- The Dance of the Fairie Ring (Jon Creffield)
- The Mouth of the Marsh (Jon Creffield)
- Cavalcade (Larry D. Hols) – included with Lejend Master's Screen
- The Rock
- The Hermit – dual-stat d20D20 SystemThe d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
/LA game adventure module, Troll Lord Games, August 2002 - The Lost City of Gaxmoor – adventure module (Ernie & Luke Gygax with David Moore) Troll Lord Games, 2002
- Hall of Many Panes – (Gary Gygax with Jon Creffield) Campaign Adventure Module Boxed Set with d20D20 SystemThe d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
stats included, Troll Lord Games 2005 - Forlorn Corners – adventure module included serially as a part of the Author’s and Collector’s Editions of the three core rules noted above (1999-2000)
- They Who Watch by Jon Creffield(published by Troll Lord Games)
- The Sundering I Shadow of Apix by Dan Cross (upcoming)
- The Sundering II The King of Madness by Dan Cross (upcoming)
- A Question of Tribute by Jon Creffield (upcoming)
- Boxed Sets and Expansions:
- The Lejendary Adventure Essentials – Primer Boxed Set for the LA RPG, Troll Lord GamesTroll Lord GamesTroll Lord Games is an American publisher of role-playing games , The Crusader magazine and other board/dice/card games....
, 2005 - Tome of Knowledge Sourcebook – Core Rules additions for the LA RPG, Troll Lord Games (upcoming)
- Living the Lejend – Adventure Module, Campaign Setting, & Expansion for the LA Essentials Boxed Set, Troll Lord GamesTroll Lord GamesTroll Lord Games is an American publisher of role-playing games , The Crusader magazine and other board/dice/card games....
(Summer of 2005)
- The Lejendary Adventure Essentials – Primer Boxed Set for the LA RPG, Troll Lord Games
In addition, more general RPG books offer some new Lejendary Adventure material as well (Orders, etc.).
- Gary Gygax’s The Canting Crew, the Criminal Underclass, “Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Volume I”, Troll Lord Games, May 2002
Related media
- A short lived Lejendary Adventure Collectible Card GameCollectible card gamethumb|Players and their decksA collectible card game , also called a trading card game or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards...
was released to compete with Magic: the GatheringMagic: The GatheringMagic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
. Most cards used existing fantasy artwork. One card titled Sarah's Sister was a direct reference to Magic's Serra AngelSerra (Magic: The Gathering)represented on her Vanguard promo card In the collectible card-game Magic: The Gathering, Serra was the creator and overlord planeswalker of the artificial plane Serra's Realm. Both played an important role in the post-ascension life of Urza.-On Serra's Realm:After Urza left Serra, the plane was...
. - A PC MMORPGMMORPGMassively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
titled Lejendary Adventure or Lejendary Adventure Online was in development since 2002 and has since been cancelled. http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10075&games=724