Top Ballista is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons

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Contents

Top Ballista is a "Creature Crucible" supplement and campaign setting that describes Serraine, the city of the skygnomes - which fly magical biplanes. The supplement includes rules for player character

Player character

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s for races such as skygnomes

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, gremlins, pegataurs, and harpies

Harpy (Dungeons & Dragons)

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, and also includes new air-combat rules.

Publication history

PC2 Top Ballista was written by Carl Sargent

Carl Sargent

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and published by TSR in 1989 as two 32-page booklets with an outer folder.