Ursined, Sealed, and Delivered

Ursined, Sealed, and Delivered is a unique window into the game's early days. The module is written by Dennis Sustare, the designer and author of the original Druid class that has become a key character class in virtually every fantasy game ever written since 1978. I've done almost no editing of Dennis's text, although the tournament format has been shifted to be more easily used during play. The result is that you are about to read an adventure that's a direct window into the imagination of one of the great figures of fantasy gaming. Any typographical errors or glitches in the "flow" of the adventure are the responsibility of the editor, and all the high-adventurous moments of this fast-moving, gripping adventure are to the author's credit. In addition to being written by Dennis Sustare, the module has cover artwork from the late, great Jennell Jaquays, one of the great figures of fantasy gaming art. This new artwork saw the return of Jennell's unique style, which will be instantly recognizable by those who gamed during the seventies and early eighties; it is an iconic, original vision of swords & sorcery that had not been seen on the cover of a module for decades. We're proud to be able to bring a new piece of Jaquay's art to younger gamers. It portrays a world that is stark and fierce, more visceral than art based on high fantasy, with the sort of rough-edged heroes who inhabit the fiction of sword & sorcery's earlier days before the world-shaking influence of JRR Tolkien rearranged the foundations of the genre at every conceivable level.