Tales of Beasts and Perils -Essential Edition: A Compendium of Dangers, Storytelling Tricks, Mysterious Magicks, Perilous Encounters and Exciting ... Your Adventurers and Engross Your Players

Tales of Beasts and Perils is a gamemaster's guide to writing and running adventures for the Tales of Blades and Heroes fantasy roleplaying game. It includes rules and guidelines for: Secret Knowledge rolls; Timing and pacing an adventure; Rewarding players with experience, Hero points, and loot; Creating magic items; Dangers of the world, including traps, poison, disease, falling damage, curses, slimes, jellies, molds, fear, and encounters with dangerous beasts and humanoids; New special rules to create monsters; Monsters and foes, including detailed profiles for unicorns, dark unicorns, dragons, iron devourers, giant spiders, chimeras, Coroimba savages, Undead, and humanoids; Guidelines for balancing encounters; Sample special rules for typical fantasy races; and a point cost summary of all the abilities featured in Tales of Blades and Heroes and Tales of Beasts and Perils. This is a black and white, trade size (6x9) edition of the book.