by William W. Connors; 1998, TSR, Inc.; ISBN 0786911972; $13.95 |
A Saga Companion is a neat, compact addition to the Dragonlance Fifth Age Saga game, TSR's diceless, card-based version of the AD&D Dragonlance game.
A Saga Companion offers a variety of rules simplifications, options, and additions for the Saga game's Narrator, many rules being written by players themselves rather than the TSR staff, who gathered these, their own ideas, and many of the Dragon Magazine's "Sage Advice" columns on the Saga game into one volume. The book, though compact, is concise and extremely easy to use, for the most part merely needing the Fate Deck to perform any action; very occasionally the reader is referred to the Book of the Fifth Age, Heroes of Hope, Heroes of Sorcery, or Heroes of Steel.
Adventure and story design tips (derived in part from Joseph Campbell's works on myth and folklore) are included. This book also offers creation guides for the Narrator to build new hero roles, hero races, monsters, spells, weapons, and armor. Design sheets for personal photocopying are provided for all of these save the weapons and armor.
A Saga Companion is a must for any Saga game Narrator and rates 5 on a 6-point scale.
--Sharon Daugherty
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