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Journey to the Magic Isle

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Journey to the Magic Isle is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Rolemaster published by Iron Crown Enterprises.

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Journey to the Magic Isle is a supplement in which the setting is an island near a treacherous Essence flow.[1]

Publication history

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Journey to the Magic Isle was written by Timothy Taylor, with a cover by Tony Roberts, and illustrations by Harry Quinn, and was published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1989 as a 64-page book.[2]

Reception

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Oliver Johnson reviewed four supplements for RoleMaster set in Shadow World at the same time, in the August 1989 issue (#8) of Games International magazine: Journey to the Magic Isle, Demons of the Burning Night, Quellbourne: Land of the Silver Mist, and Tales of the Loremasters. Collectively, he concluded "too much of it is of the ‘seen it and done it all before’ variety" and that "Creatures and settings here are the worst side of amorphic[] all mush [sic] together into an unpalatable stew". To Journey to the Magic Isle specifically he awarded 2 1/2 stars out of 5, stating "Like the American college campus this University resembles, here are plenty of opportunities for the unwitting to get zapped, particularly by a lich lord, the mad professor of the set."[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Johnson, Oliver (August 1989). "Roll Call". Games International (8): 43.
  2. ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 204-205. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.