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121:.) Rowland was not impressed with any of the products, calling them "too derivative, simplistic and ambiguous, and do not give a realistic feeling of the ancient world." Focussing specifically on the adventures, Rowland criticized them because they "allow the players too little free will, although the detailed explanations and descriptions may help novice referees." Rowland also commented that 22: 76:
role-playing game in January 1982, and included with the rules were the first four "episodes" of a campaign called "Adventure 1". Later the same year, Yaquinto also published the fifth and sixth episodes to complete Adventure 1. The fifth episode was a 24-page book with an outer folder called
60:, the adventurers return in this episode to find Setanta, now an adolescent, ravaging the countryside at the head of a band of renegades. Setanta has also offered an alliance to the 231: 64:. To counter this and bring Setanta to bay, the adventurers must enter the land of the Sidhe and brave the Maze of Death to prove themselves worthy of an audience. 125:
had "several major anachronisms which cannot be described without revealing details of the module." He warned that anyone wanting to play its sequel,
129:, would be required to have this adventure, since it was "almost impossible to run the without information in this module." He concluded that 86: 40: 133:
was not very playable, not very enjoyable, did not require a great deal of skill, and lacked complexity of plot. Rowland gave
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Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games
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Yaquinto Publications
Man, Myth & Magic
Hibernia
Setanta
Sidhe
Herbie Brennan
Stephen Peek
White Dwarf
Marcus L. Rowland
Kingdom of the Sidhe


Rowland, Marcus L.
White Dwarf
Games Workshop
cite magazine
link
ISBN
0-87975-653-5
Categories
Role-playing game adventures
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1982

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