Journey to the Magic Isle

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Journey to the Magic Isle is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Rolemaster published by Iron Crown Enterprises.

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Journey to the Magic Isle is a supplement in which the setting is an island near a treacherous Essence flow. [1]

Publication history

Journey to the Magic Isle was written by Timothy Taylor, with a cover by Tony Roberts, and illustrations by Harry Quinn, and was published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1989 as a 64-page book. [2]

Reception

Oliver Johnson reviewed four supplements for RoleMaster set in Shadow World at the same time, in the August 1989 issue (#8) of Games International magazine: Journey to the Magic Isle, Demons of the Burning Night , Quellbourne: Land of the Silver Mist , and Tales of the Loremasters . Collectively, he concluded "too much of it is of the ‘seen it and done it all before’ variety" and that "Creatures and settings here are the worst side of amorphic[] all mush[ sic ] together into an unpalatable stew". To Journey to the Magic Isle specifically he awarded 2 1/2 stars out of 5, stating "Like the American college campus this University resembles, here are plenty of opportunities for the unwitting to get zapped, particularly by a lich lord, the mad professor of the set." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Oliver (August 1989). "Roll Call". Games International (8): 43.
  2. Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 204-205. ISBN   0-87975-653-5.