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The Amar Role-Playing Game

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This is the site of the Amar RPG. The game is the result of more than 32 years of development and play testing. Its forerunner was published in the UK in 1987: The Mega Role-Playing system (fantasy edition). It aimed to be the most realistic RPG (it still is) and geared at those who had been playing RPGs for several years. An RPG simulating real life was bound to be quite complicated and thus cumbersome. The developers (Geir Isene and Bent Brakas) decided to cut down and simplify the rule system.

While still maintaining a high degree of realism, the rules were simplified and simplified and simplified. Until the rules themselves were only a small fraction of Mega. The system is now one of the simplest and most realistic around. It uses only a 6 sided dice (D6) for determining outcomes of risky events. It is easily learned by the games master in an evening. The players catch on in an hour or two. No sweat. Just pure role-playing fun.

On this site you will find the complete game system as well as information on The Kingdom of Amar. You will also find online character and random encounter generators - tools the Game Master will find highly useful.

The Amar RPG rules

Introduction - an introduction to Role-Playing and the Amar RPG

The Character - rules covering character generation, attributes, skills and the experience system

Combat - rules covering melee and missile weapons, armour and… combat

Equipment - tables covering all kinds of goods, equipment as well as salaries for various professions

Magick - rules covering magic and all the various spells

Encounters - encounter tables and description of humanoids and monsters

The Kingdom of Amar

The rise to infamy - a short story giving the background to Amar

Information on Amar - an introduction to the Kingdom of Amar

Amar - the current scene - information on the kingdom as the player characters start playing