Written by fantasy novelist

Aaron S. Rosenberg Aaron S. Rosenberg (born October 13, 1969) is an American novelist and game designer. Biography Rosenberg has written novels for franchises including '' Star Trek'', '' StarCraft'', ''Warcraft'', ''Exalted'', ''Stargate Atlantis'', and '' War ...

, the Deryni Adventure Game is a

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that is based in the

Deryni novels The Deryni novels are a series of historical fantasy novels by the American author Katherine Kurtz. The first novel in the series to be published was ''Deryni Rising'' in 1970, and the most recent, ''The King's Deryni'', was published in 2014. A ...

created by

Katherine Kurtz Katherine Irene Kurtz (born October 18. 1944) is an American fantasy writer, author of sixteen historical fantasy novels in the ''Deryni'' series, as well as occult and urban fantasy. Resident in Ireland for over twenty years, she moved to Virgi ...

Setting

The setting closely resembles earth's

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except with the inclusion of the Deryni, a race of humans with powers like mental

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and

telekinesis Psychokinesis (from grc, ψυχή, , soul and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), or telekinesis (from grc, τηλε, , far off and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing a person ...

. Many of the stories focus around the conflicts between these two races.

System

The Deryni Adventure Game uses Freeform Universal Donated Game Engine (FUDGE), a system created in 1992 by

Steffan O'Sullivan Steffan O'Sullivan is the author of several role-playing game books. Career Steffan O'Sullivan was a ''GURPS'' writer whose projects included ''GURPS Swashbucklers'' (1990) and '' GURPS Bunnies & Burrows'' (1992). He designed the ''FUDGE'' role-p ...

on the rec.games.design newsgroup. Its design focuses more on the story and the player instead of dice throws.

History

Grey Ghost Games released ''The Deryni Adventure Game'' (2005), a ''

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'' role-playing game based on the

. The Deryni Adventure Game was one of the first products to be designed around the Fudge RPG system. Deryni Adventure Game also has custom dice, and a full size poster map of the Eleven Kingdoms and is the second main product of Grey Ghost Games.

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References

External links

www.derynirealms.comwww.fudgerpg.com
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