The selection of spells is small and somewhat bland (compared to RQ, CoC, or Stormbringer anyway).

Magic is potentially available to all, but it requires admittance to the Sorcerer's Guild to learn (again, with entrance requirements). Interestingly, the default assumption is that a new character is a rogue, as it has no entrance requirements, while becoming a warrior or a sage requires a roll to be accepted for training.ДЄs in RuneQuest, new skills are acquired through training (which costs money), while old skills are improved through use. As a BRP derivative, it's skill rather than class-based but starting characters must choose one of three 'professions' - warrior, rogue, or sage - which determine the starting skills to which the character has access. Not huge nods, to be sure, but Magic World is very traditional in its presentation, largely lacking the idiosyncrasies that make RuneQuest so appealing to its fans and frustrating to its detractors (and might-have-been fans). The first of the three world books is Magic World, a fantasy game that is reminiscent of a between a de-Glorantha-ized RQ with some nods toward Dungeons & Dragons. Consequently, Worlds of Wonder has an 'experimental' feel, as if Chaosium were testing the waters to see if how much BRP could be stretched beyond its roots in RuneQuest. Of course, 'complete' is a relative term and there's no question that by most standards (even back in 1982), the world books were more like the skeletons of games rather than fully-fleshed out, ready-to-go games. genre) in which to use the rules of Basic Role-Playing, complete with all the rules needed to play. The first is BRP itself, while the other three each presents a different 'world' (i.e. This boxed set came with four short booklets (three are 16 pages in length and one is 18 pages). BRP was thus intended as a 'high level' document, establishing only the most basic principles of the game system, such as characteristics and skill rolls, while individual games dealt with the specific details of expanding upon those principles.ДЎ982's Worlds of Wonder was another step along the road to showing how Chaosium wanted Basic Role-Playing to be used. The first game to explicitly do so was 1981's Call of Cthulhu, whose rulebook, unlike that of its contemporary Stormbringer, referred back to Basic Role-Playing for an understanding of certain foundational mechanical concepts. Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing (which I've lauded previously) was extracted from the rules of RuneQuest, simplifying and genericizing them in order to serve as a foundation for other RPGs.

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