Another revived bundle - Fellowship
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This revived June 2020 Fellowship Bundle once again presents the Liberi Gothica Games FRPG of heroism against world-shattering odds, Fellowship. In Fellowship one player becomes the Overlord, bent on world destruction. The other player characters form a coalition of heroes who undertake a perilous journey to save the day.
Adapting the simple and flexible Apocalypse Engine system (also used in Dungeon World), Fellowship lets you enact your own epic adventure a la The Lord of the Rings or Avatar: The Last Airbender. As a member of the fellowship, you have a unique Playbook (Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Heir, Orc, Squire, Heir, Harbinger) that defines your Moves and abilities. You play as the hero of your people, and you have full control in defining them. When you play as the Elf, you decide what Elves are, what their culture is like, what they value and desire, and their relationship with the world. When someone asks about the Elves, all eyes turn to you for the answer.
The Overlord has a special Playbook with an agenda, armies, bonds, gears, foibles, and "My Only Weakness." During play the Overlord can level up like the heroes, and gains powerful custom moves like "Fear Me," "And in the Darkness Bind Them," and "You've Met With a Terrible Fate, Haven't You?" (which lets you curse a hero). The Book 2 expansion Inverse Fellowship (based on the Inverse World campaign for Dungeon World) replaces the Overlord with the Horizon, for adventures of exploration in a dangerous otherworld. Book 3: In Rebellion establishes a fascist Empire the players try to overthrow. Newly added for this revival, the fourth and final volume, Generous Fellowship, adds many new rules and wrinkles.
(All previous purchasers of this Fellowship Bundle during its original June 2020 run also receive the newly added Generous Fellowship on their Wizard's Cabinet download page and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.)
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Fellowship revival's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived June 2020 Fellowship Bundle is US$78. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all three titles in this revival's Starter Collection (retail value $36) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete standalone Fellowship Second Edition core rulebook (2019); Fellowship Book 2 - Inverse Fellowship; and a set of Dungeon World Alternative Playbooks with The Mage, the Priest, the Templar, and the Artificer, all easily compatible with a Fellowship campaign.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $17.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $42, including Book 3 - In Rebellion; the new Fellowship Book 4 - Generous Fellowship; and four more DW playbooks: Cultist, Dashing Hero, Spellsword, and Witch.
Last time around I said "I have to be honest here - I've been "off" fantasy RPGs for a long time, and am not a huge fan of the Apocalypse Engine rules set. And the subject matter doesn't really appeal much, in my experience the most epic thing about most epic quests is how badly they get screwed up once the players are in the mix. Having looked at some of this material, I don't feel that it is especially well presented - the overwhelming impression I got from some of it was clutter, too much crammed into too small a space. Admittedly one of my recent reviews complained about another bundle where it seemed that there was not enough content per page, but there needs to be a balance, and I'm not sure it's been achieved here. This isn't really something I want. But if you've been thinking of running a huge epic quest campaign it's possible that this is exactly what you need, so don't let me stop you! "
I really don't see any reason to change any of that.
