Chronicles of the Four Dragons

Chinese God of War Chronicles is one of the many game designs I have floating around on my hard disk. And like most of these abandoned projects, it’s totally untested, probably extremely unbalanced and unfinished. But it was great fun to write! 😀

Chronicles is a rules-lite, anime-style fantasy game which uses a pretty easy dice pool system and four classes: the Warrior which is attuned to Earth, the Archer which uses Air magic, the Monk who draws his power from Water and the Sorcerer who is a master of Fire magic.

Today I stumbled upon my manuscript, made some minor layout tweaks and created a PDF you can download here. I don’t intend to anything with it in the foreseeable future, but perhaps there is someone out there who can put it to some good use.

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Sunglar

Interesting little game… I’ve never been a BIG fan of Asiatic themed games. But recently my campaign has two characters from a region of the campaign which has elements similar to the Asian continent. I’ve found myself exploring themes and concepts from those cultures. While I may not use the game as is, it gave me some GREAT ideas. Thank you!