Ruins of Symbaroum: Game Master's Guide

The Ruins of Symbaroum Gamemaster's Guide provides tools and guidelines for running the game, developing the setting and creating your own adventures. The content may be summarized as follows:

Invoking Symbaroum: Gamemaster's Rules - on Ability Checks, Combat and Challenge Ratings, Time Within the Game, and Shadow and Corruption. The Setting - describes three settlements central to the setting: Thistle Hold, the town of explorers and treasure hunters; Yndaros, the capital city of the kingdom of Ambria; and Karvosti, the cliff of the barbarian High Chieftain deep inside the forest of Davokar.

Running Ruins of Symbaroum: Building Game Worlds - guidelines on how to understand and develop the specific game world of Symbaroum. Adventures and Landscapes - instructions on creating adventures and adventure landscapes where the PCs dictate the course and outcome of the story. Chronicles - tips on how to design an adventure chronicle (also called campaign or adventure path) set in the world of Symbaroum. Magical Items and Artifacts - a huge number of mystical artefacts that all come with ready-made adventure hooks, as well as guidelines on how to create mystical artefacts of your own.