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Fantastic Treasures
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Genre Role-playing game
Publisher Mayfair Games
Media typePrint
ISBN 0-912771-20-8

Fantastic Treasures is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1984. A second volume ( ISBN  978-0-912771-37-3) was published by Mayfair Games in 1985.

Contents

Fantastic Treasures is a supplement listing hundreds of magic items and weapons drawn from myths and legends around the world, alphabetized from A to L. [1] The next year the book listing items M to Z was printed.

Publication history

Fantastic Treasures was written by Alan Hammack, with a cover by Boris Vallejo, and was published by Mayfair Games in 1984 as a 96-page book. [1]

Mayfair and TSR came to an agreement on September 28, 1984, in which TSR granted Mayfair a license to use the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons trademark on the Role Aids books, and Fantastic Treasures (1984) was the first product to make use of this license. [2]: 167 

Reception

References

  1. ^ a b Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 98. ISBN  0-87975-653-5.
  2. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN  978-1-907702-58-7.