Tsar Rising - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097080945X ISBN 13: 9780970809452

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"The Tsar is dead!" The cry echoes across Torassia: the cruel tyrant fell in a battle with undead troops, abandoned by the two princes in his time of need. The empty throne creates anarchy and chaos, as the princes and the Tsar's advisor battle for the right to rule. As if that wasn't bad enough, the worst winter that Torassia has ever experienced leaves frozen corpses in villages everywhere. It's a race against time as Sergei, the Tsar's commander in chief, gallops southwards to reach the capital before the forces of hell get their first. Will you brave the coming storm? Tsar Rising is a d20 fantasy adventure for eight or ninth level characters.

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Michael Tresca has an 11-year-old D&D role-playing campaign, Welstar, which is one of the six worlds in RetroMUD and where many of his short stories take place.

He's written reviews of role-playing and computer games for Web sites, and Talien and Maleficent's Bookstore. He's also written three D20 modules: "Tsar Rising", "All the King's Men" (April release), and "The Dancing Hut" (August release) from Monkey God Enterprises.

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Torassia is a large, dangerous wilderness, sparsely populated by peasants and their wealthy landowners, the boyars. A few pockets of civilization dot the landscape, the capital of which is Dolstev. At Dolstev, there is a stark contrast to the Cossacks of the less tamed lands: here, boyars drink away the days at the expense of the impoverished peasantry. It is said it is better to be a beggar in Dolstev than a peasant in winter.

Presiding over such a disconnected civilization is challenging. At the top of the government rules the Tsar, Petrov Nayavovich, or simply known as "Peter the Great." Peter's arrival was, like so many things in Torassia, a double-edged sword: he is a visionary capable of leading his people into a golden age, but he is also a violent man possessed of a hair-trigger temper. While the peasants speak of him in awe, the boyars who must answer to him live in fear.

To reinforce his authority, the Tsar sought out a symbol of his power, and he found it in the psovyaslan, or mammoths. Living primarily in the deep north, the Tsar captured an entire herd for his elite army. Boyars everywhere bow to the Tsar's ruling because of these magnificent creatures.

But the reality is that the mammoths are expensive beasts to maintain. They eat over 300 pounds of spruce and grass a day. Feeding just one is challenging enough. Feeding thirty is nearly impossible. To compensate for their upkeep, the Tsar increased taxation, knowing that the mammoths could do more damage to his enemies hidden away at a secret ranch than they could on the battlefield.

With the fealty of the boyars firmly in place, Peter set about modernizing his country. He made great strides in engineering, warfare, and perhaps his greatest achievement: a national religion...

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 097080945X
• ISBN 13: 9780970809452
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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