Gold Star

Astre of Gold ( The World off Lone Wolf ) is a series of four book-play; it is a medieval-fantastic campaign written by Joe Dever and Ian Page, and which is held in the Solitary world of Loup.

Synopsis

Majdars ( Shianti ) are people humanoïde with the silver plated and reflective eyes). They arrived on Magnamund by the Door of the shade, after having their dying planet flees and having wandered in the dimension of Noctiurne ( Daziarn ); at the time, humanity was only one whole of scattered and little developed tribes. Because of their capacities, they were taken for gods, behaving like benevolent parents and helping the people of the South of Magnamund to develop.

But, humanity evolving/moving, this one started to covet their capacities and to want to divert their magic objects, of which moon Pierre ( Moonstone ). Ishir, the goddess of the Moon, thus ordered in Majdars to withdraw world of the human ones, and they were insulated on an island. This island, called island of Lorn or Island of desolation, is protected by powerful magic spells which prevent the ships to approach it, and to even know its existence.

Gold star ( Grey Star ) is human which was failed on the island of Majdar whereas he was baby; its name comes from its fair wick. Majdars taught their knowledge of the magic to him. Arrived at the adulthood, Gold Astre must leave to research Pierre the moon, a magic stone which only will be able to demolish the king-wizard Charachak ( wytch-king Shasarak ), the tyrant who oppresses the people of the South of Magnamund.

The adventures proceed between year 5047 and year 5054 of the calendar magnamundien.

List works

the Wizard Majdar ( Grey Star the Wizard , 1985)
Astre of Gold is charged by Majdar with finding moon Pierre; for that, it must initially find Kundis, the lost tribe of Lara, which is able to locate the Door of the shade.
the prohibited City ( The Forbidden City , 1986)
the Door of the shade was localized in the Valley of desolation. For that purpose, it must initially cross the prohibited city of Gianima, populated of a horde of insane townsmen whom one calls the human Animals.
the Kingdom of the lapse of memory ( Beyond the Nightmare Spoils , 1986)
Astre of Gold crossed the Door of the lapse of memory. It Re is to wander in the strange dimension of Noctiurne (Daziarn) , with the research of moon Pierre.
the War of the wizards ( War off the Wizards , 1986)
if the stay in the dimension of Noctiurne seemed to last a few days with Gold Astre, seven years ran out on Magnamund. Gold star federates an army of resistant in order to fighting the armies of Charachak, and arriving to him to destroy it.

Compared to the Solitary series Wolf : the first three books are held before the adventures of Solitary Wolf, the fourth volume is held between the cursed Pit and the Tyrant of the desert .

Rules

The rules are the same one as for Solitary Loup , except for the Kaï disciplines which are replaced by magic capacities. Gold star lays out of more than one additional characteristic, the will , which is worth 1d10+20 initially. The use of the magic consumes points of will .

At the beginning, Gold Astre has five capacities, and it will acquire additional with each book. The eight magic capacities are:

sorcery: to create an invisible shield and to move objects
envoûtement: to create illusions
the communication with the elements: allows to speak with spirits about the elements (air, ground, water, fire), and to ask them of the assistance
alchemy: to prepare potions, to transmute the matter
clairvoyance: to see in the future, to locate a person, to decipher the true nature of the beings
the psychomancie: to guess the events which took place around objects simply in concerning
the evocation: to enter in contacts with a spirit, in the spiritual Field (possibly the spirit of a death)
the rod of wizard: allows to make spout out a destroying ray; the body with body, allows to multiply the damage the more so as the number of points of will spent with each turn.

The favorite weapon of Gold Star is its rod of wizard. If it fights without its rod, it undergoes a malus of 6 points of skill . If it fights with naked hands, without any weapon, it a malus of 8 points of skill undergoes.

Interaction with the Solitary series Wolf

Gold star meets Rendalim, the welfare man of the kingdom of Sommerlund, in the jungle. This one came to collect medicinal herbs to look after an epidemic of Sommerlund. A few years later, Rendalim will look after Solitary Loup on its arrival with the palate of Hammardal, towards two thirds of the infernal Traversée (vol. 2), and will provide an elixir of care (Elixir of Rendalim) much more effective than the potion of laumpsur.

In the Prisoners of time (vol. 11), Solitary Loup also travels him in the dimension of Noctiurne ( Daziarn ).

Loup Solitaire recovers moon Pierre and Faucon load of the Moon to bring back it to Majdars ( Shianti ) in the book the Voyage of moon Pierre ( Voyage off the Moonstone - vol. 21)

External bonds

Project Aon, several pounds put in remote loading free (in English) according to the license Project Aon License
Official site of the French edition of the Solitary roleplay '' Loup Gold Star ''
Description of the books on Defis-fantastiques.net
Description of the books in the Library of the adventurers
Chronology of Encyclopedia Magnamunda
Description of the English books
The world off Magnamund webring (English)

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