Adventure Tome 1 - Back to Basics

A world based on the author's Lost City of the Dwarves novels, simplified to the most straightforward skills, feats and spells that were not GM reliant, this contains five levels of adventuring goodness that require no prep work and are not reliant on the presence of a Game Master or any other books.

By keeping things simple, using only the essential basics of tabletop gaming rules and thorough narrative, a group of players can fulfill their dungeon-delving desires without having to depend on a Master behind the screen. Everything is self-guided - from the moment your party steps into the first level of the Dwarves' abandoned Old City to their final excursion into the Underdeep and every town interaction in between - all prepared for your gaming enjoyment without any downtime. From opponent stat blocks to magical items, everything you need is at your fingertips within the pages of this first Adventure Tome: 35 pages of rules for character creation, combat and adventuring, another 22 pages for spells and spellcasting rules, 17 more pages of merchant and treasure tables, and almost 200 pages of player-guided adventuring.

The end result is a compilation of basic, uncomplicated rules that still allow for divers character creation and adventuring possibilities, meaning that you can make a variety of characters which can be taken through five levels of adventuring without missing a beat. No digging through errata to clarify obscure rulings; no searching through multiple books to see what you're fighting and what treasure you have found; no spending half of your valuable gaming session to figure out if your character can actually do what you want them to do. Everything has been thought out ahead of time and clarified for you, because the minutes of your weekly gaming session are too valuable to waste not having fun.