Arianrhod RPG is a Japanese fantasy
role-playing game released in 2004. At present, Arianrhod RPG is one of the most popular traditional RPG in Japan like as
Sword World 2.0,
Alshard and
Dungeons and Dragons. The related books including rulebooks, supplements,
replays and novels were published 59 books until November 2010.
The game's flavor is similar to that of
MMORPGs: for example, guild skills shared by the party, skills similar to
Final Fantasy XI's combos, and
manga-like illustrations.
The basic setting's world, named Erindyll continent, is an orthodox fantasy world. In 2008, the new series
Arianrhod Saga in
Fujimi Shobo began and the new setting of another continent named Aldion is provided for a campaign setting suitable for war chronicle stories. Arianrhod Saga contains several series of side stories named Across, Break, Concerto(
manga), Death march, Étude, Fanbook(replay with
drama CD) and several novels.
Arianrhod RPG is known for several
seiyū such as
Noriko Rikimaru,
Ema Kogure,
Naoki Yanagi,
Kanako Sakai,
Megumi Kojima and
Miyu Ohtake were playing in the official game sessions. These session logs are commercially-published as
replays.
Game Mechanics
Success rolls
Arianrhod RPG uses only 6 sided dice. To determine whether the action is successful or not the player rolls only nd6 (basically 2d6, skills and fates increase the number of dice), if the total of the dice rolled by the player and ability adjustments is...
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