Game
12
Tournament
Adventures C4-C5
The Prophecies of Brie Series
(1985)
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Find A King by Bob Blake |
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Editor: |
Jon Pickens |
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Graphic Designer: |
Elizabeth Riedel |
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Cover Art: |
Keith Parkinson |
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Interior Art: |
Ron Randall |
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Cartography: |
Diesel |
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Special Thanks To: |
Dave Griggs, Jeff Hartz, Dan Lawrence, Martin Newhard, Terry Primrose, Jim Ronco, Tom Sievers, Edward G. Sollers, Dean VanDrasek, and Rex Zinn |
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The
Bane of Llywelyn by Bob Blake |
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Editor: |
Jon Pickens |
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Graphic Designer: |
Elizabeth Riedel |
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Cover Art: |
Keith Parkinson |
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Interior Art: |
Ron Randall |
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Cartography: |
Diesel |
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Special Thanks To: |
Dave Griggs, Jeff Hartz, Dan Lawrence, Martin Newhard, Terry Primrose, Jim Ronco, Tom Sievers, Edward G. Sollers, Dean VanDrasek, and Rex Zinn |
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The Realm Review:
A series of short
scenarios that, when placed together, tell the story of the resurrection of a
nation. A very challenging adventure tha should not be attempted by a party
without ample resources at their disposal, the Prophecies of Brie Series is one
of the most far-reaching adventures made for the first edition, with apparent
roots in classics such as Keep on the Borderlands, Lost Tower of Castanamir,
Sir Washington Irving and Celtic mythos.
Realm Rating: 4/5
...Download Game12 at the Magic
Mirror...
Collected reviews
on Game 12:
Game12.zip Bane of
Llewellyn Ray & Maureen
This is yet another great
design from The Realm. I'm starting to run out of original superlative
adjectives. The only problem is one that occurs in most of the Realm's designs
"DON'T DONATE TO THE TEMPLES". It locks up my game. Has anyone else
had this happen in a Realm design? I'm beginning to wonder if my poor little
486 is not capable of handling these bigger designs. There were also a few
minor spelling errors, but they did not detract from the game. This is a
conversion of two modules I had never heard of before, what a treat! You are a
group of middle level adventurers running errands for a Council. There are
prophecies that must be interpreted. Encounters that are determined by your
attitude towards the creature and wonderful puzzles that must be analyzed. I
had to restart when I realized I needed to know the color in I's Tower. Make
sure you use the Find Traps spell or you'll be sorry. In fact, my cleric's only
have FT as their 2nd level component.
Plot Matter 10 Artwork:
10 Hacks: 9 Text: 9
Events: 9 Originality: 9
Errors: 7 Difficulty: 5
Total Rating: 91%
Mycroft: 9
Susan McKinney
Ray,
I thought I'd send you a
few comments about Game12. It's been a few days since I finished it, so I may
not be as specific as sometimes. Overall, I enjoyed it, as have every Realm
game. The main annoying part, as you already know, was that whole Ishcabeble
thing. I am glad to know that you didn't understand how the tower was supposed
to work either. I ended up going into every room on each level since I didn't
understand how it was supposed to work. My thought was that the star on the
lowest level gave some clue to the order of gems or the rooms to go in or some
such, but I didn't figure it out. Ah well.
The rest of the module
was quite good. I was disappointed that I didn't get a boomerang, since I
managed to avoid fighting any Amazons, though. I thought you did a nice job of
making the player do some of the work, especially in the sequence on the
rooftop with the pteranodons, where you had to choose the right thing to say or
a PC would be thrown to his/her death. It really made me think about what to
say each time! I've spent a lot of time building these PCs up, and I don't want
them to be lizard food!
Hmmm...I may have to go
back and play it again, as I can't think of any other specific comments at the
moment. As always, the art and hacks and music were excellent, and it played
smoothly from beginning to end. I am definitely looking forward to
Tsojcanth/Tharizdun.
