The REIGN Enchiridion is a digest-size paperback that contains the complete rules for Greg Stolze's hit fantasy roleplaying game " A Game of Lords and Leaders." REIGN expands the frontiers of fantasy gaming by elevating the action to an international stage. Monarchs, mercenaries and merchant princes gamble armies and fortunes to win nations in a rich and vibrant fantasy setting. REIGN's simple but complete rules model the triumphs and disasters of societies as small as a village or as large as a realm-spanning religion. With REIGN, your characters can defend threatened nations, bring prosperity to desperate provinces, make laws and perpetuate justice... or, if you prefer, loot, conquer and pillage on a vast and awesome scale.
Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American novelist and writer, whose work has mainly focused on properties derived from role-playing games.
Stolze has contributed to numerous role-playing game books for White Wolf Game Studio and Atlas Games, including Demon: the Fallen. Some of Stolze's recent work has been self-published using the "ransom method", whereby the game is only released when enough potential buyers have contributed enough money to reach a threshold set by the author.
Together with John Tynes he created and wrote the role-playing game Unknown Armies, published by Atlas Games. He has also co-written the free game NEMESIS, which uses the One-Roll Engine presented in Godlike and the so called Madness Meter derived from Unknown Armies.
Reign Enchiridion es una idea que todos los manuales de rol deberían seguir: coges las reglas del juego, en forma pura, eliminas la ambientación y la paja, y sacas un manual en formato cómodo por 10 euros. Tiene mis dieces.
El juego describe el sistema ORE (One Roll Engine), que es un sistema de tirar puñados de dados de 10 caras y obtener de una sola tirada toda la información necesaria para resolver la acción. La verdad es que las veces que he probado otras versiones (NEMESIS, que es la versión de horror moderno) el resultado ha sido excelente. Greg Stolze es un gran diseñador.
Por 10 pavos, es una compra excelente que recomiendo muchísimo.
A very nice little volume that condenses down the pure system elements of Greg Stolze's REIGN roleplaying game. It's simple, written in an easy-to-read way, and has a large number of examples to help you grasp the mechanics.