![]() Personally, I'm no longer a friend of the system. That also means some terms might be translated differently than the official version. As a result, only the basic rules have been translated, and I don't have access to those, so I'm going to use the german books for this review. There was an attempt to market the 4th Edition in America, but that didn't end up successful. It definitely got modernized, slimming the system down somewhat, but it still was too complex and did not have a clear enough selling point for my tastes. I am only familiar with it by looking over the beta rules once. ![]() Ulrich Kiesow died in 1997, by the way, so I am assuming this edition has little to no input from him.Ģ015 saw the release of 5th edition. This is the edition I am reviewing and the one I have most experience with. The results of these multi-year affairs shaped and influenced the history of the setting. Most notable of that is probably the letter-game, where fans had the chance to put their player characters in the position of lords and nobles and roleplayed political issues and campaigns. Somewhere along the line in the third edition, he founds Fantasy Productions, his own publishing company, publishing the game, adventure paths and a magazine and giving opportunities to other RPGs, Fantasy and SciFi literature.īy the time 3rd edition comes around, there is a large and established fanbase of the game. Rather than getting annoyed that DnD books are hard to get in Germany and moving on with his life, he starts writing and publishing his own system and setting: The Dark Eye. Kiesows reaction is great, he thinks that whole pen and paper roleplaying thing is the bees knees (something we all can understand, I'm sure). Sometimes in the 80s, he sits down to play a newfangled thing called Dungeons and Dragons. So there was that guy named Ulrich Kiesow. I don't know if these numbers still hold up today, but both facts were definitely true in the nineties and early aughties. Meaning, it was both the most successful game written in Germany as well the most played game by german Gamers. The Dark Eye is often called the most popular german roleplaying game. ![]() What is The Dark Eye? posted by Moldless Bread Original SA post The Dark Eye 4.0 ![]()
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