Pyramid Pick
The Legacy of Zorro Introductory Adventure Game
Published by Gold Rush Games
Written by Mark Arsenault
Fuzion rules by David Ackerman, Ray Greer, Bruce Harlick, George MacDonald, Steve Peterson, Mike Pondsmith, and Benjamin Wright
32 pages, $9.95
It seems that good introductory roleplaying games, suited for younger or inexperienced players, are becoming harder and harder to find. Gold Rush Games has answered this need before with their Usagi Yojimbo RPG and now they're doing it again with their Legacy of Zorro Introductory Adventure Game, based on the adventures of the swashbuckling masked hero in colonial California and due for release in June.
The game is a 32-page 8.5" x 11" book containing a simple set of rules, four sample characters, and an introductory adventure (complete with a two-page map). The first four pages provide an overview of roleplaying games and an introduction to the world of Zorro in early 19th century Spanish California. The players don't get to play Zorro (which player would get to play him, after all?). Instead, they play people chosen and trained by Zorro to aid in his fight against injustice.
Seven pages provide all of the basic rules of the game, using the "Instant Fuzion" game system (also used in Usagi Yojimbo) with a few interesting twists. The basic game system is Attribute + Skill + 3d6 vs. a difficulty number, with damage rolls handled by rolling a number of d6 and adding them (then subtracting the target's Defense). There are four main attributes: . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: April 13, 2001
Copyright © 2001 by Steve Jackson Games. All rights reserved. Pyramid subscribers are permitted to read this article online, or download it and print out a single hardcopy for personal use. Copying this text to any other online system or BBS, or making more than one hardcopy, is strictly prohibited. So please don't. And if you encounter copies of this article elsewhere on the web, please report it to webmaster@sjgames.com.