Ruins of Symbaroum: Gamemaster's Guide

The Ruins of Symbaroum Gamemaster's Guide provides tools and guidelines for running the game, developing the setting and creating your own adventures. The content may be summarized as follows:

Invoking Symbaroum

• Gamemaster's Rules - on Ability Checks, Combat and Challenge Ratings, Time Within the Game, and Shadow and Corruption.
• The Setting - describes three settlements central to the setting: Thistle Hold, the town of explorers and treasure hunters; Yndaros, the capital city of the kingdom of Ambria; and Karvosti, the cliff of the barbarian High Chieftain deep inside the forest of Davokar.

Running Ruins of Symbaroum

• Building Game Worlds - guidelines on how to understand and develop the specific game world of Symbaroum.
• Adventures and Landscapes - instructions on creating adventures and adventure landscapes where the PCs dictate the course and outcome of the story.
• Chronicles - tips on how to design an adventure chronicle (also called campaign or adventure path) set in the world of Symbaroum.
• Magical Items and Artifacts - a huge number of mystical artefacts that all come with ready-made adventure hooks, as well as guidelines on how to create mystical artefacts of your own.

Please note:

• One copy of Ruins of Symbaroum: Gamemaster's Guide is supplied in English.