Tales of the Dark Ages is a collection of adventures published under license by Atlas Games in 1990 for Lion Rampant's fantasy role-playing game Ars Magica .
Tales of the Dark Ages is a collection of adventures published under license by Atlas Games in 1990 for Lion Rampant's fantasy role-playing game Ars Magica .
Tales of the Dark Ages is a set of four adventures for use with Ars Magica: [1]
Lion Rampant Games published Ars Magica in 1987. In the 2014 book Designers & Dragons: The '90s, game historian Shannon Appelcline noted that "From 1990–1991, Atlas Games produced five different licensed adventure books for the Ars Magica RPG. These included: Tales of the Dark Ages (1990), a set of short adventures and Atlas' first product; Festival of the Damned (1991), a well-loved adventure by Ars Magica designer Jonathan Tweet, who had left the industry just two years earlier; and South of the Sun (1991), an interesting look at Mythic Africa". [2] : 54 Tales of the Dark Ages, published under license by Atlas Games in 1990, is a 64-page saddle-stapled softcover book with interior art by Eric Hotz, and cover art by Tara Kinnunen. [1]
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