![]() Quite powerful but didn’t always reveal an actionable answer and they were always afraid to waste it). Those growing up in Hogwarts, I mean a mage tower, could use one premonition each session (which allowed a look ahead of one section to see if a choice caused death. ![]() For example, those who grew up on the streets gained the pickpocket skill, able to roll for some shards (or a beating) when in a city. I created background cards they could choose from to give their characters some flavor, even if their character choose a different profession later in life.I redrew and printed out a poster-sized map of the world and used wooden tokens to mark our location and our ship.We had Valtass the Warrior, Sun-turtle Sage the Mage, Harpo the Rogue, and my character, Hayoo the Wayfarer. Each character began at Rank 1 like normal.After a few days of playing we are all at Rank 6, captains of two ships, and proud Paladins of Ravayne, This is how we did it: My son’s cousins, about the same age as him now as teenagers, were a bit bored one day, so I brought out the series, dusted off the old co-op rules, and our adventures began. I jotted down a few notes, got sidetracked with life, and finally this summer we made it happen. I wondered how FL could be a multiplayer co-op adventure. It was at this time that I went back to my thoughts in 2011, on how I wanted to join in on the adventures with others. In 2018, having given up on getting Book 7 in hardback, I ordered it from Amazon to complete the collection. When the skies cleared he was Rank 4 and long after remembered our first journey together in the Fabled Lands. ![]() While waiting out the storm we traveled the roads of Sokara and Golnir, climbed the mountains into the plains beyond, sailed the seas near Dweomer, and stayed well clear of Uttaku. ![]() When the power went out, I introduced my son to the series under the LED glow of lamplight. The last books arrived just before Hurricane Irma roared ashore. I backed the Kickstarter for book 7, and bought the rest of the books by 2017. Then in 2011 I discovered them back in print and so bought books 1-4. How odd and fascinating! After devouring book 1 and 2 in the 1990s, years later I discovered there were four more titles and lands to explore but alas I could not find them. I've been a fan of Fabled Lands since finding a curious book series called Quest, which included a pair of dice on each cover.
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