Aborea

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Aborea
publication
Author (s) Sebastian Witzmann
Original publisher 13Mann (until 2016) / ABOREA (from 2016)
Original publication 2011 (as a game world since 2007)
original language German
World and system
genre Fantasy
Game world Aborea
Basic system Aborea / Rolemaster
Ascent stages
cube W10

Aborea is a game world for the Rolemaster - RPG or a standalone RPG system in the context of the game world Aborea.

Game world

As the official (and so far only) game world for the German version of the role-playing game Rolemaster, Aborea has been the background of various commercial and free adventures since 2007, which already contained more detailed information about the game world. With the appearance of the Aborea complete set in 2011, the world was expanded and for the first time provided with an overview map of the continent of Palea. A more detailed description of the countries and regions eventually learned the continent with the on the GAME presented in 2016 in Essen Atlas, the trio of African scholars describes the game world from the perspective.

role playing game

Aborea table role play (1st ed.)

The Aborea complete set (also Aborea box or Aborea table role play) is a complete set of rules. The background information on the Aborea game world can be used in parts as a source book for Rolemaster or other role-playing games.

Development and conception

Aborea was released in May 2011 as part of the Role Play Convention in Cologne. It is a typical representative of the classic pen & paper role-playing game and is clearly distinguished from the computer role-playing game by its designation as a table role-playing game . Aborea is specially tailored to younger roleplaying beginners, but sees itself as an age-independent roleplaying game for beginners.

A second, expanded edition of the game was presented in October 2012 at the International Game Days in Essen. In addition to bug fixes, additions (rule clarifications, index) and new rules (e.g. two new professions, level advancement beyond the 20th level), the 2nd edition contains an additional third booklet with ready-to-play adventures (including a version of the Rolemaster adapted to the game -Adenteuers Elisera ), new creatures and ready- made player and non-player characters .

The 3rd edition of the Aborea set of rules, published in December 2014, is a bug-free, largely unchanged new edition of the 2nd edition from 2012.

The 4th edition (November 2016) also corresponds to the previous edition, apart from corrections and additional explanations. Since the 4th edition, the role play has been marketed as an independent, registered brand and game world by Sebastian Witzmann.

In addition to some rule explanations and corrections, the 5th edition (September 2017) was expanded to include an alternative experience point system.

A sixth edition, which has only changed slightly, was presented in May 2018 at the RPC in Cologne.

To improve comprehensibility and clarity, in addition to minor corrections in the 7th edition, the presentation of the lists of sayings has been redesigned.

Control system

Aborea is a class and level-based rule system that takes up some of the core mechanisms of the Rolemaster role-playing game in a very simplified manner. Samples, which are called maneuvers based on Rolemaster , are based on an "exploding over -dice system", in which a ten-sided dice is thrown and, after adding additional throw modifiers, a specified target value must be reached or exceeded.

Character creation and development

Each player character has five attributes that are “bought” according to a point system. These are modified by the elected people. In addition, the five available races (elves, gnomes, halflings, humans and dwarves) grant further advantages and disadvantages, such as: B. the ability to see in the dark or restrictions on the career choice that has the greatest impact on the character's role. There are five professions (thief, warrior, priest, ranger and magician) to choose from, two more (bard and shaman) were added in the second edition of the game (2012) and are also available free of charge on the publisher's website. In addition to special skills, the professions have an influence on the development of hit points and skills. The latter are also bought using a points system before the game starts, with the exact cost depending on the chosen profession. A special feature of character creation and development is the fact that in principle every character can cast spells. The costs and available spells depend on the profession. Spells are learned from spell lists, which can be acquired and increased like other skills. In order to cast spells, a character needs magic points, which he has to develop analogously to skills and spell lists.

In the course of the game, a character collects experience points . When a certain amount is reached, the character rises one level and receives additional hit points, points to increase skills and (depending on the profession) additional skills.

Compatibility with Rolemaster

Since Aborea has some basic concepts in common with the Rolemaster system, both systems are compatible with each other to a certain extent. Due to the greatly simplified rule system, the conversion from Rolemaster to Aborea is usually much easier than the other way around. The fifth adventure, The Cold Death, from the Adventure in Trion series is equipped with play values ​​from both role-playing systems, so that no subsequent conversion is required.

Publications

So far, the following products for the Aborea game world have been released:

plant Art Publication date
ABOREA - the table role game Set of rules / background May 7, 2011
ABOREA - The table role game, 2nd edition Set of rules / background October 18, 2012
ABOREA - The table role game, 3rd edition Set of rules / background December 14, 2014
ABOREA - The table role game, 4th edition Set of rules / background November 6, 2016
ABOREA - The table role game, 5th edition Set of rules / background 1st September 2017
ABOREA - The table role game, 6th edition Set of rules / background May 12, 2018
ABOREA - The table role game, 7th edition Set of rules / background September 28, 2019
ABOREA - Atlas of the Known World background October 13, 2016
ABOREA - game leader screen, 1st edition ("forest") equipment May 2014
ABOREA - game leader's screen, 2nd edition ("Underworld Edition") equipment February 2017
ABOREA - game leader screen, 3rd edition ("Sea of ​​Spirits Edition") equipment August 2018
ABOREA - game leader's screen, 4th edition ("The Arrival Edition") equipment February 2020
Elisera Adventure (Rolemaster) October 18, 2007
Hero of the old days Adventure (Rolemaster) March 21, 2008
Trolls! Adventure (Rolemaster) July 2010
The bleeding god Adventure (Rolemaster) July 2010
The monster of Leet Adventure (Rolemaster) April 2011
The cold death Adventure (Rolemaster / ABOREA) May 2013
ABOREA Solo Adventure Playbook (1): The Dark Prince Adventure (ABOREA) August 2014
ABOREA Solo Adventure Game Book (2): Below the eyes of the goddess Adventure (ABOREA) January 2015
ABOREA Solo Adventure Playbook (3): In the Trap Adventure (ABOREA) September 2015
ABOREA Solo Adventure Play Book: The Dark Prince (Complete Edition) Adventure (ABOREA) October 2015
Damned by the gods (PDF edition) Adventure (ABOREA) December 2017

There are also some adventures and short stories for free download on aborea.de.

Awards

At the RPC 2013, the second edition of the ABOREA role-playing box received a jury award as part of the RPC Fantasy Awards.

Reviews

  • Aktion-Ablebnis.de
  • Die-Dorp.de
  • DnD-Gate.de
  • FantasyGuide.de
  • FictionFantasy.de
  • Griffin Claws' blog
  • Grimoires.de
  • Helden.de
  • Larp.tv
  • Media-Mania.de
  • Metstübchen.de
  • Ringbote.de
  • Roachware
  • RPG-Foren.com
  • nerdlicht.net (formerly: Schreiberlings Egozine)
  • SpieLama.de
  • Spieletest.at
  • System-matters.de
  • Teilzeithelden.de
  • Dream-wide weblog

literature

  • Manuela Schneider: Education- oriented literacy: Promoting young people with written language deficits at the transition from school to work (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Company Education, Guide for Educational Practice, Volume 60). 1st edition W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-7639-5371-4 , p. 23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of March 28, 2012
  2. ↑ News on the publisher's website ( Memento from July 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b Since the 3rd edition, ABOREA has been recommended for players aged 14 and over according to the age recommendation on the game packaging. In the first two editions of the game, the age recommendation was given as 12+ .
  4. ↑ Announcement in the developer blog from October 10, 2012 (accessed October 22, 2012).
  5. ↑ a b Ben2: SpieLama. Retrieved November 26, 2012 (2nd edition video review, November 25, 2012).
  6. ↑ a b Moritz Mehlem: DnD-Gate.de. Retrieved January 18, 2013 (2nd edition review of January 17, 2013).
  7. ↑ Photo with the game material of the 2nd edition at BoardGameGeek.com
  8. ↑ Announcement on the official website of the ABOREA - table role game (accessed on November 18, 2016).
  9. ↑ see announcement about the relocation of the ABOREA forum Announcement about the relocation of the ABOREA forum
  10. ↑ Announcement of the 5th edition in the official ABOREA forum (accessed on May 14, 2018).
  11. ↑ Official announcement of the 6th edition for the RPC 2018 in Cologne (accessed on May 14, 2018).
  12. ↑ Announcement on the new presentation of the spell lists (accessed on October 31, 2019).
  13. ↑ In this context, “exploding” means a special cube mechanism. If the die shows a 10 during a roll, the dice may continue to be rolled until no more 10 is rolled. All litters are then added to one litter.
  14. ↑ a b Download area for the Aborea table role play on the Aborea website (accessed on January 6, 2018).
  15. ↑ Conversions for using the Rolemaster adventure with the Aborea rules can be downloaded from the download area on aborea.de.
  16. ↑ A version of the adventure according to Aborea rules has been part of the Aborea table role game since the 2nd edition.
  17. ↑ First adventure with play values ​​for Rolemaster and the Aborea rules.
  18. ↑ above: RPC Germany - RPC Fantasy Awards 2013. Archived from the original on June 8, 2013 ; accessed on June 9, 2013 (notification from June 3, 2013).
  19. ↑ above: Aktion-Ablebnis.de. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012 ; Retrieved on March 22, 2012 (reviewed May 15, 2011).
  20. ↑ Matthias Schaffrath: Die-Dorp.de. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed June 21, 2011).
  21. ↑ Moritz Mehlem: DnD-Gate.de. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed May 22, 2011).
  22. ↑ Stefan Günster: DnD-Gate.de. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed February 11, 2012).
  23. ↑ Christel Scheja: FantasyGuide.de. Retrieved December 29, 2013 (no review date). Review of the 2nd edition.
  24. ↑ Martin Wagner: FictionFantasy.de. Retrieved March 26, 2013 (no review date). Review of the 2nd edition.
  25. ↑ above: Greifenklaues' blog. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (reviewed May 15, 2011).
  26. ↑ Nico Zorn: www.grimoires.de. Retrieved October 4, 2013 (Reviewed September 23, 2013). Review of the 2nd edition.
  27. ↑ Joela: Helden.de. Archived from the original on July 27, 2012 ; Retrieved on May 2, 2019 (Reviewed August 5, 2011).
  28. ↑ JHK: Larp.tv. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed on May 2, 2019 (Reviewed March 22, 2012).
  29. ↑ Mark Goedecke: Media-Mania.de. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (no review date).
  30. ↑ Dominic Wäsch: Metstübchen.de. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed August 20, 2011).
  31. ↑ above: Ringbote.de. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed October 27, 2011).
  32. ↑ Michael Janßen: Roachware. Retrieved June 9, 2013 (Reviewed August 10, 2011).
  33. ↑ SoulReaper: RPG-Foren.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 (reviewed October 2, 2011).
  34. ↑ Roland Triankowski: nerdlicht.net (formerly: Schreiberlings Egozine). Retrieved November 29, 2012 (Reviewed June 28, 2011).
  35. ^ Stefan Schwiedland: Spieletest.at. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed June 11, 2011).
  36. ↑ Patrick Jedamzik: System-matters.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed May 14, 2011).
  37. ^ Andreas: Teilzeithelden.de. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed November 28, 2011).
  38. ↑ Dream Wide: Dream Wide Weblog. Retrieved March 22, 2012 (Reviewed July 3, 2011).