This is a 296 page comprehensive guide to the Dying Earth.
It includes reliable information on everything that has ever existed*. It details all the major people, places, creatures and phenomena within the Dying Earth and also offer the expansions, speculations and comments of other contributors, as well as asides into the Vancean oeuvre.
For the Dying Earth roleplaying game, the Compendium includes more than two hundred adventure seeds, game statistics for eighty creatures, more than a dozen spells and cross references to all our other publications. The Compendium is lavishly illustrated, with beautiful maps.
When you are not pouring over its pages, its sturdy frame will add character to your bookshelf.
The Excellent Prismatic Spray is a beautifully presented compendium of erudite articles, adventures and background material for the Dying Earth RPG. Robin D. Laws presents "Phasms", an adventure for powerful arch-magicians; Gary Gygax details the influence of Jack Vance on the D&D game. Phil Masters, Steven Long, and many other stellar names present material of comparable interest.?
n the Excellent Prismatic Spray 3 we continue our proud tradition of superior adventure material for the Dying Earth RPG with this volume, which includes The Gold and Amber Cabal, an adventure for aspiring mages; The Valley of the Graven Tombs, laden with ghosts and curses; and The Laughing Magician, part one of a three-part adventure series in which the characters must race up the Scaum river against stiff opposition.
To Ascolais, the Falling Wall and Beyond! Once the heart of the reach of Grand Motholam, the Land of the Falling Wall and Ascolais are now picturesque ruins. The people are strange, the places stranger, the opportunities and diversions unparalleled.
This double issue of The Excellent Prismatic Spray is your well-nigh irresistible invitation to discover the Dying Earth’s heartlands for yourself.
While waiting for Time’s death rattle, why not...
* Defraud merchants amid the probity and decorum of ruinous Lumarth
* Lose yourself (or your pursuers) in Forrell’s Port, gateway to Sousenene
* Cross the Plain of Standing Stones
* Hide from your enemies in cosmopolitan Efred, City of Sanctuary
* Tangle with mermelants in Aldusfeld Village
* Interfere with cranes in White-Walled Kaiin
* Or take the opportunity to hunt mutroons and social status in the Great Da Forest
Ascolais & the Land of the Falling Wall features adventures, recipes, ghosts, ships, vat creatures, gods, daihaks and demons. The material is suitable for all levels of play and will satisfy every palate, however ghoulish or finicky.
The latest issue of our splendid adventure supplement features an article on Vancean magic by Arcana Unearthed author Monte Cook; a d20 conversion of Dying Earth rules by Keith Baker, creator of the new Eberron campaign setting for Wizards of the Coast. Hogshead's Mark Ricketts gives sterling advice on adding horror into your Dying Earth games. XPS 6 also includes adventures, new weapons, cults of the Dying Earth and much more. With such well-known names and an attractive layout, XPS 6 is a must for any Dying Earth player, and others besides.
An epic campaign for the Dying Earth RPG in the tradition of Jack Vance's early Dying Earth Tales.
The Dying Earth isn't all rapier wits and dry humor. Fields of Silver gives somber warriors and potent magicians a chance to show their capabilities. Written for powerful, driven characters in the style of Turjan of Miir, you can solve mysteries, uncover secrets and deal with ancient evils. The adventure takes your characters right across the continent, from Almery to Erze Damath, taking in a host of wonders along the way. It pitches them against dangerous foes in their quest to put right a misdeed so great that it could shake the very foundations of a mighty city.
With a wealth of descriptive material on the eastern lands in the original stories, the book also functions as a richly detailed sourcebook.
Who is responsible for the slaughter of the characters' friends? Who is the mysterious Lady and why does she need their help?
Even armed with a head full of spells and a wicked blade, dare your characters face the scion of an elder demon?
This books requires the Dying Earth RPG and uses material from Turjan's Tome.
Rhialto's Book of Marvels is the long-awaited source book for Arch-Magicians. Created by Robin D Laws, it features totally new mechanics with which you can actually win the game.
Expect fraught discussions, drunken magical brawls between manses, feeble attempts at seduction and childish oneupmanship. Combined with world-shattering magic, of course.
Suitable for any level of play from Rogue to arch-Magician. 174 pages of vibrant characters, dangers and curses.
The Excellent Prismatic Spray Double Issue #7/8
Stranger, stay your hand a while.
Are you sure you can cope with the contents of this publication? Ponder well on the writers.
M D Jackson, whose work comes to us, written in blood on the back of repeatedly erased medical records.
David Thomas, who works sitting under a silver parasol on the bed of a long dead sea, dictating his works to three scribes, one blind, one deaf, and one mute.
Justinian Merrihew who doubts not merely his existence but its very actuality.
Ian Thompson who lives so close the the hithermost edge of the earth that dark dreams drift sinuously out of the darker gulfs of space and slip through the ivoried embrasures of his many-canopied bed.
Wonder at the pets of the Dying Earth, frolic in the icy streets of The Hidden City in the Mountains, gawp at Bildazan, God of Merchants and Thieves. Once again Pelgrane Press spares no expense or effort to bring to your attention what they most modestly assure me must surely be the finest collection of scenarios, background information, and plot hooks for the Dying Earth as has ever been collected into one place.
So, stranger, should you merely be desirous of titillation, of generously endowed maidens dressed in unlikely and uncomfortable combinations of chain mail and leather, of facile stories and shallow plots suitable only for the most juvenile, then carefully place this back on the shelf where your betters can find it.
If, on the other hand, you are a person of wit and discernment, welcome, this book has found its rightful home.
