Over the weekend I made the decision to release my greatest role-playing game I have ever designed. It is the quintessential game of high fantasy with more than fifty-five player races, thirty factions, two hundred skills, a magical spell system unmatched in any game ever published. It also comes with the world of Monokon: a rich and delicious world full of mystery, discovery, and unbounded adventure.

I am also very excited to have some top notch artwork finally gracing its pages. As I look at the project, I foresee five books each about 100 pages long. I will release them in various quality from the basic pdf (containing just the rules), a grand edition (containing rules, art and simply page flashings), to the premium pdf (all the pages in color).

Best of all, I have decided to release them series of books all free.

My plan is to release each book every couple of months, with the first one being ready in early June. If you wish to receive the game, simply drop me an email at: tchristensen616@gmail.com and mention Phantasm Adventures in the subject.

Troy

Gah!  I have been dragged back down into the infernal cesspool of MMO gaming — OK, it’s not that bad, but there for three months I had a life — I could read books — I could write stories — I knew what the sky looked liked and actually saw the stars, moon, and sun again.

To no avail, however, I started up one box — and bought the worthless expansion — and then started my second box going again.

If I don’t weary on the game, I will proudly return with a Travels with Troy and a EQual Perspectives, no doubt soon.

As for what I did in the last three months?  I finished a young adult science fiction novel called Amish Johnson and the Pegasus Chamber. . . It is about a young boy going to school in the twenty-second century and finding a key to a machine called the Pegasus Chamber.  On a lark, he and his friends walk into it and find they have been whisked away, virtually, to a pristine beach.  They learn however that not all is well when the program fails to end, and they are left with a daunting quest to find the Unity Controls and escape the virtual world.  Along the way they encounter mysteries and surprises — a young woman who Aaron (thats Amish) falls in love with, carnivorous predators that the kids must combat, and an ancient ruin filled with headhunters. All very exciting.

Troy Christensen

November 25th, 2008

First published in 1985 under my own publication house, later in 1987 and 1988 it was picked up by a Japanese publication company specializing in models, dioramas, and gaming.  The union of myself and the company last ten years with dozens of books and articles published on Phantasm Adventures, Multiverse, and other related subjects.

Phantasm Adventures: Guide to Monokan

In this huge companion book to Phantasm Adventures and Advanced Phantasm Adventures, we discover the lost world of Monokan. Detailed through the book is the major continent from which adventures untold, begin. More than ten thousand years of history are detailed, as well as the Almanac like descriptions of the varied empires of the land. Follow through the book and read details about the Throom Dynasty, the Maldake Combine, the mysterious Wild Lands, the rambling Kingdom of Jeg.

Read about the infamous Mog Apes, the Spires of Norrandar, the legendary wizard Azaroon and Thobar. Experience so much that mere words cannot describe all the mystery and wonder.

Phantasm Adventures: Lets roll back time to a more simple period where all role-playing games were played amongst friends and used paper, dice, and grid paper. The year was 1985, during the era of Reagan and “We Are The World“. It was a time when I could spend 12 hours a day, sitting in front of my host of friends in my bedroom talking about dragons, elves, and glorious high adventure.

Phantasm Adventures was my first fantasy Role-playing game. I used my Commodore 64 to typeset the game, and rubber cement to attach the picutres. I photocopied probably 30 of these books, which some are still floating around out there. Here is the one I kept. Last I knew there several of my old friends, gone off where ever friends from the past go, and have been told they still use it from time to time. Here is to my friends of the past!!

Misty Island Adventure: Published in 1990 by Dai Nippon Kaiga for my Japanese fantasy role-playing games called Advanced Phantasm Adventures. The quest takes the group of adventurers to a series of islands to the south of Maldake. The islands are wrapped in a mystical force of power and mystery. Buried deep within the archipelago is a resident evil that must be stopped. Can the group quell the evil forces and re-establish harmony in Monokan.

Have you ever needed a detailed Non-Player or Player character at the spur of the moment, complete with skills, spell lists, and background, but did not know where to turn? Wonder no longer, your search is over! Rolemaster Heroes and Rogues is the answer–complete game information for 24 Rolemaster characters at seven different levels. Get your players ready, because your Rolemaster campaigns may never be the same.

Published in 1991 by Iron Crown Enterprises, this book is a culmination of my efforts working with Villains & Vigilantes, my own games (such as Bloodbath and Bloodchant), and the efforts overseas (Phantasm and Advanced Phantasm Adventures).

Most Wanted: Three

This was my second published adventure module for the great pen and paper role-playing game, Villains & Vigilantes.  Published in 1986 it contained rules and guides on 30 nefarious villains to battle against your local super hero group.  Interior and book cover art was drawn and inked by Patrick Zircher.  I still have very fond memories of my Saturday trips to Jeff Dee’s house where we would play for 12 hours in the worlds of V&V, Tekumel, and others. 

Black Keep: My first expansion module for my Japanese published fantasy role-playing game. A typical adventure of a haughty wizard that needs to be taken down a couple of notches by a band of hardy, noble adventures. Published in 1989 by Dai Nippon Kaiga.

bloodchant: A direct sequel, and the magical rules to the world of Helboria, Bloodchant is set of rules for the Bloodbath series of games. Published in 1988 by my own publication company, TC International. This is another example of my ability to write, edit, design, and finish complete role-playing games.

Bllodchant is a ruthless game of mystical spells and grisly arcane death. Players take on the personae of a haughty wizards bent on mastering arcane rituals, chants, and demonic conjurations. The wizards, sometimes accompanied by bloodthirsty adventurers, search the lands for treasure, glory, and grimoric relics left long, long ago by gods and demons. The wizards of Bloodchant will forge bone-jarring, blood curdling spells able to snap a man’s mind as easy as a child breaks a small twig, or render a monsters flesh to crimson oatmeal. Along the pathway of discovering ancient arcane spells, the wizards will happen across undead, demons, and horrors so terrifying that many of the mortals will fall to a stupor, their mental state reduced to that of gibbering children. The Bloodchant awaits….