What happened to Gygax's Lejendary Adventures?

[Gloomshroud]

I'm a little late to the "online gaming community" scene, and my town only got a FLGS this year. So, that being said, I missed the whole Lejendary Adventure system by Lord Gygax!

I see that it is out of print. This brings up a couple questions:

1.) Is it good/fun/cool?

2.) If so, how can I GET an out of print book? Never done that, so I'm not sure!

Thanks all!

EDIT: My Googleventures have led me to some free quickstart rules, bi-quarterly magazine publications (discontinued), as well as several defunct merchants, and revies that tell me it's essentially a "rules light" mash-up of D&D and GURPS (i.e. skills, lots of them).

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I'm a little late to the "online gaming community" scene, and my town only got a FLGS this year. So, that being said, I missed the whole Lejendary Adventure system by Lord Gygax!

I see that it is out of print. This brings up a couple questions:

1.) Is it good/fun/cool?

2.) If so, how can I GET an out of print book? Never done that, so I'm not sure!

Thanks all!

I don't know how good it is. You mentioning it reminds me that Gary used to post here, which bums me out now to think he's gone

You can check Amazon; there seems to be quite few LA books available there, most likely from Amazon's associated sellers.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

EDIT: My Googleventures have led me to some free quickstart rules, bi-quarterly magazine publications (discontinued), as well as several defunct merchants, and revies that tell me it's essentially a "rules light" mash-up of D&D and GURPS (i.e. skills, lots of them).

Yeah, Gary had become an advocate of (fairly) rules-light, skill-heavy games later in his career.

 

[MadLordOfMilk]

2.) If so, how can I GET an out of print book? Never done that, so I'm not sure!

I haven't played the system itself (though I've heard of it!), but I have bought plenty of out of print books!

Google is always your friend, Amazon.com sometimes has OOP books up (but usually at highly inflated prices), eBay has a number of the books up frequently, rpg.net's "Sales! Auctions!" board has a number of people trading RPG books all the time, as does Dragonsfoot's Classified board.

If you go with the web forum route, I suggest just posting that you're looking for the books and seeing if anything turns up.

 

[Gloomshroud]

Yeah, Gary had become an advocate of (fairly) rules-light, skill-heavy games later in his career.

Yea, I discovered Gary had a profile here today! He was active here two weeks before his passing. A gamer and community supporter till the end! It seems Noble Knight may also have some material to offer.

I'd really like to hear if anyone has played this and their experiences with it!

 

[Dausuul]

Yea, I discovered Gary had a profile here today! He was active here two weeks before his passing. A gamer and community supporter till the end! It seems Noble Knight may also have some material to offer.

For those wishing to peruse Mr. Gygax's postings to ENWorld, his username was Col_Pladoh.

 

[Odhanan]

1.) Is it good/fun/cool?

If you like light, interpretive game systems, kinda comparable to Mythus Prime, if you know it, then yes, it is extremely cool.

2.) If so, how can I GET an out of print book? Never done that, so I'm not sure!

Amazon might still have the base books for sale through various sellers on the marketplace. Check it out (I just did, as a matter of fact they do - see following links). You could also try eBay. I'm sure you'll find some copies that way. The core books titles are Lejendary Rules for All Players ([ame="http://www.amazon.com/Lejendary-Rules-All-Players/dp/1930377029/ref=cm_lmf__7"]Amazon link[/ame]), Lejendary Master's Lore (I don't find it on Amazon for some reason), and Beasts of Lejend ([ame="http://www.amazon.com/Beasts-Lejend-Gary-Gygax/dp/B000MM3WUQ/ref=cm_lmf__8"]Amazon linky link[/ame]).

Alternately, you could go for the [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Gary-Gygaxs-Lejendary-Adventure-Essentials/dp/193127567X/ref=cm_lmf__1"]Essentials boxed set[/ame], which is also cool (I own it too) and functions as a "lite" version of the rules, "basic set" style.

 

[Umbran]

For those wishing to peruse Mr. Gygax's postings to ENWorld, his username was Col_Pladoh.

And he provided a great deal of insight in a series of threads: "Gary Gygax Q&A"

 

[jonesy]

And he provided a great deal of insight in a series of threads: "Gary Gygax Q&A"

If I remember correctly somewhere in part V of that he talked about Lejendary.

Edit: here at least is something about it: http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/71486-gary-gygax-q-part-v-4.html

 

[Saeviomagy]

At first I was really confused by all the people talking about a rules-light system.

Then I realized I was remembering Dangerous Journeys and not Lejendary Adventures. Man, that thing had a lot of numbers.