Archaea Live-Action Role-Playing and Wargaming (25th Anniversary Edition)

Welcome to Archaea The brand new Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Sixth Edition) is 188-pages and offers a brand new layout and revised text Archaea is an independent medieval, high fantasy live-action role-playing and padded-weapon wargaming (LARP/W) game system designed and written by Edmond Y. Chang. Archaea invites beginner and advanced live-action role-players to explore a game rich in action, color, magic, and story. Archaea offers: - a fast, easy-to-learn, and sensible padded-weapon combat system;

- a point-based, skill-based character creation system with over 50 different skills and abilities that allows players to fully tailor and personalize their characters;

- an amazing and complete magic system with ten schools of magic with over 250 spells;

- a specialized and rigorous ritual magic system called misticism;

- and finally a comprehensive and detailed world with over two-thousand years of history, 20 distinct provinces, and 25 character organizations.(The Sixth Edition does not substantively differ from the Fifth Edition, though some skill descriptions, spell & ritual descriptions, and Organization descriptions have been updated.)