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 Lejendary Adventures Rulebook Cover | |
| Designers | Gary Gygax |
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| Publishers | Hekaforge Productions, Troll Lord Games |
| Publication | 1999 |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Systems | Custom |
Lejendary Adventure (abbreviated as LA) is a role-playing game created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and creator of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D).
Gygax originally devised Lejendary Adventure as a role-playing video game, but he later decided to develop the game as a printed fantasy RPG. [1]
Lejendary Adventure products were published by both Hekaforge Productions and Troll Lord Games. Three months after Gygax's death in 2008, his widow Gail withdrew all of the licenses from Troll Lord [2] : 382 and also from Hekaforge. [2] : 381 The game has been out of print since.
Like other role-playing games, Lejendary Adventure is played using polyhedral dice, pencils, paper, and sometimes miniatures. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, Lejendary Adventure has a player character creation system that is skill-based rather than ability based, resulting in even more flexible character creation to allow role-playing of almost any kind of character. Lejendary Adventures still provide Archetypes using "Orders." Orders are guild-like organizations that provide benefits to the characters. Players can also choose to be unordered. Order is determined by the character's first chosen ability. Orders include the Noble, Rogue, and Elementalist. Unordered characters still advance, but they do so without the benefit of a guild.
Various races are also available, with different definitions from other RPGs. Races in Lejendary Adventure include Dwarves, Ilves, Wylves (Ilves and Wylves are two of many Fair Alfar, i.e. what are usually called elves in other RPGs), Gnomes, Kobolds, and Veshoge. As for character advancement, instead of levels, Lejendary Adventure characters receive Merits—points that can be used to increase their Abilities or Base Ratings, as well as buy new Abilities.
The standard campaign setting is Lejendary Earth, called Learth.
(Some adventures were also compatible with d20):
In addition, more general RPG books offer some new Lejendary Adventure material as well (Orders, etc.).