Plunge into adventure instantly by choosing from over 60 pre-generated first level HARP characters. Each character is game ready, with good stats, balanced skills, a training package,and talents. Attack bonuses, defensive bonuses and skill bonuses are all figured. Just pick a character, choose a name and start adventuring. We’ve even included equipment bundles for characters to choose from, so there are no worries about facing the monsters unprepared.

Over 20 new training packages add interest and vitality to the characters. These packages give your character a past and a future—be an Explorer, a Vagabond, a Mercenary, a Lightbringer or a Dwarven Defender. Players interested in the Martial Arts, can choose from several new training packagers including "The School of the Mouse", a martial arts style designed for short people.

The HARP Character Book is ideal for beginning and experienced gamers who are want to get into a HARP game quickly without going through the character creation process. The book is perfect for new campaigns. Just ask the players to choose their characters from the Character Book for an interesting, well balanced group of characters in a hurry.

Cyradon is a brand-new world setting for HARP. The land waits, petrified, deserted, waiting for life to return. In the centre of the wastelands, lies the wizard's city; its streets empty and silent save for the echoing of the wind and the shifting sand. In the great mesas, high above, the Gryphons sleep.

Below in a great courtyard, there's a strange pattern carved into the stone. A small jewel is embedded into the ground. The patterns stream out from that central point. And one night, the jewel flickers into life, and thousands of humans--weary, defeated, starved, and terrified, emerge into a whole new world.

Westward, beyond the desert, beyond the western mountains, lie lands unexplored for millennia…who lives there now? What will your role and destiny be in this new world?

Includes a lush, full-color 16X20 inch map.

Searching for additional material to enrich your HARP gaming? The HARPers Bazaar Annual 2005 is a fully-indexed 106-page compendium of valuable material for players and GMs alike. Its contents include new professions, monsters, races, rules and more. Plus a special bonus: Hack & Slash, an alternate HARP system that bridges the gap between HARP combat and Arms Law. Hack & Slash contains 16 attack tables, including 4 attack tables that didn’t make it into HARP: the Acid, Holy, Magic and Slaying Attack tables. Hack & Slash also contains detailed criticals sure to add spice to your HARP combat.

This fully-indexed Annual contains all of the contents from the Harper’s Bazaars 1-5 including: 2 new professions: the Paladin and the Beastmaster, 6 new monsters, new rules for summoning elementals, 8 new races, 8 new cultures, 9 new clerical orders, 3 alternate casting traditions, new spells, and Optional rules.

Description: The HARP Codex is a book of magic. In its pages you will find lots of magic that can be used to expand the depth and breadth of magic within your game. You get dozens and dozens of all new spells along with rules for allowing players to learn spells through membership in Guilds rather than fixed professions. Additionally, the Codex brings you 4 all new professions, to allow you to expand your game in all new directions:

HARP: The Essentials is a brand newtype of product from ICE! Now you canget all the essential HARP RPG titles ona single CD-ROM: