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Pen & Paper Roleplaying Central => Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion => Topic started by: Age of Fable on February 14, 2008, 11:35:20 PM

Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Age of Fable on February 14, 2008, 11:35:20 PM
Hi,

Just for fun, I've put the rules for a retro-clone game on my website. European gamers in particular may find it familiar.

It's at //www.apolitical.info/webgame/eye
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: TheShadow on February 15, 2008, 03:51:12 AM
Looks pretty cool! Who wrote it?

Love the Tables for Fables too. I'm setting up a T&T campaign and looks like I'll be able to create the setting in a couple of hours with these babies.
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Dirk Remmecke on February 15, 2008, 05:44:51 AM
Quote from: The_ShadowLooks pretty cool! Who wrote it?
Ulrich Kiesow.

This is a (lightly edited; eg the weapons have differing damage adds) translation of Das Schwarze Auge First Edition (1984).
The spells have different names (and it might be that there are completely new spells as well, I played it only once so I won't remember everything).

The original name of the game was "Aventuria" or something like that, but the publisher wanted a more mysterious title and named the game, "The Dark Eye". The author had to put something in the game that justified the name, so he invented a magic item, the Palantir-like Dark Eye - The All-Seeing Eye.

[Edit]
Trivia: The first edition rules booklet was illustrated by Bryan "Luther Arkwright/A Tale of a One Bad Rat" Talbot.

[Edit 2]
This version of the rules bears only passing resemblance - if at all - to the current incarnation (Fourth Edition), which was published in English by Fanpro US.
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Age of Fable on February 15, 2008, 01:22:57 PM
Quote from: Dirk RemmeckeUlrich Kiesow.

This is a (lightly edited; eg the weapons have differing damage adds)

Not deliberately! Which ones?


QuoteThe spells have different names (and it might be that there are completely new spells as well, I played it only once so I won't remember everything).

only the names and magic words are meant to be different.
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Age of Fable on February 15, 2008, 01:28:55 PM
Quote from: The_ShadowLove the Tables for Fables too. I'm setting up a T&T campaign and looks like I'll be able to create the setting in a couple of hours with these babies.

Cool, thanks!
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Dirk Remmecke on February 16, 2008, 05:55:07 AM
Quote from: Age of FableNot deliberately! Which ones?
You're right. I broke out the book and checked the numbers. Maybe your differing notation (and order) messed with my memory.

Why did you rename the Barbarian War Axe as Executioner's Axe?
Title: The All-Seeing Eye: the classic game you've never heard of.
Post by: Age of Fable on February 16, 2008, 02:38:20 PM
Quote from: Dirk RemmeckeYou're right. I broke out the book and checked the numbers. Maybe your differing notation (and order) messed with my memory.

Why did you rename the Barbarian War Axe as Executioner's Axe?

For two reasons:

i) because there's already a 'battle-axe', and it seemed to me like 'battle-axe' and 'war-axe' were confusingly close.

ii) because wearing 'knightly armour' didn't seem to fit with having a 'barbarian's war axe'...although the same could be said for what I changed it to.:deflated:
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