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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FunkBGR" data-source="post: 5304065" data-attributes="member: 3895">I played and owned Lejendary Adventures. It had a blue cover, and it was some dudes adventuring. One of the dudes on the cover was obviously Gary, and according to another guy I know, the cover was done by an artist who really liked to draw adventuring parties that consisted of the role-playing group as their characters. It was fun, but weird. Everything had a weird name, so you had to puzzle your way through some of the names - Ilf's and Wylfs and stuff. People could be Kobolds, and could turn invisible at will. You had three or four basic stats, including a speed stat, which I recall got really wonky when you mixed in spellcasting, because apparently one of the most effective things to do was cast this bolts spell, make as many as you possibly could, and keep nailing people's speed stat for 2 to 3 points of damage per bolt (when speed stats were around 10 to 15). There was also some skill in the book called Pandimensional Spanning or something, which was Weird. Another random weird thing I remember is that you needed a d30 for one of the listed weapons in the back (giants fist or something). Characters used Orders as "classes", and if you couldn't become a member of one of the listed orders, they had a "non-ordered character" advancement thing that I remember took me awhile to completely figure out. All that said, if you could puzzle through all that, and felt comfortable hand-waving some of the funny business, it actually was a lot of fun for a skill-based system. It wasn't too terribly hard to grasp the basic rules, and you could hand-wave a lot of the weird stuff or just house-rule things to make it fit. I do recall sometimes you had to do some multiplication on the spot - so I made a custom character sheet that had some value x4 (I think it was Speed again) on it. So it's cool to own for the Gygaxianess of it (the weird stuff), but also at its core is pretty fun. Does my group remember it fondly? Definitely. Would I run it again? Probably not - if I want skill-based, I'll stick to something less weird.</blockquote>

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