Dragonraid: Lightraider Handbook a Player's Guide to Edenagain
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DragonRaid: LightRaider Handbook A Player’s Guide to EdenAgain c 1984, 1995, 1998 by Adventures for Christ. All Rights Reserved. March 30, 1999 LightRaider Handbook ii Copyright Notices Published by: The Lamb’s Bride Project Adventures for Christ Division P.O. Box 8240 Colorado Springs, CO 80933 c 1984, revised 1998 Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION R , Copyright c 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society. “NIV” and “NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION” are trademarkes registered in the United States Patent and Trademark office by International Bible Society. Copyright Notices LightRaider Handbook iii Preface Welcome to the DragonRaid Adventure Learning System! This book, along with the others that belong to this system, will guide you in the allegorical world of EdenAgain, a place where you can learn Biblical truths and how to apply them. Some History This document was originally the LightRaider Handbook of the DragonRaid Ad- venture Learning System. Subsequently, it was made available on the internet for anonymous FTP,1 with some minor revisions. This copy of the LightRaider Hand- book is a minor revision of both of the above. Where the FTP version and the original hardcopy book differed, choices were made, generally favoring the FTP version. It uses the c 1984 of the New International Version of the Bible, rather than the prior c 1978 version. This Edition In addition to minor text revisions, this edition is in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) and can be viewed with their free Acrobat Reader. Things to note: • Pages are numbered sequentially from 1. Although “front matter” pages are in traditional lower case Roman numerals, the first page after the front matter is the next sequential number in Arabic numerals. (Front matter page xiii – Roman numeral 13 – is followed by the first page of the body, 14.) This is done to make navigation within Acrobat easier. Acrobat numbers pages sequentially from one. So, if you see a page reference, it will match that which Acrobat uses. 1FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol.” FTP is also the name of the program used to transfer files. Preface LightRaider Handbook iv • The document is bookmarked. This is generally a clickable “table of contents” which can be generated in a PDF file. • The document is linked. This permits a click to take you to a page reference without having to go to the page manually.2 It also permits World Wide Web references to be clicked on — causing your web browser to go to the indicated site.3 It can also go to other documents in the same “relative” directory, these links are indicated with a green box. • The document can be printed (using Acrobat Reader on most printers, using Windows printer support. Links and such aren’t printed, but the printed doc- ument “works” as a printed document is expected to work (table of contents, pagenumbers,...). 2This type of link is indicated with a blue box, which will not print when the document is printed. 3This type of link is indicated with a red box, which also will not print when the document is printed. Preface LightRaider Handbook v Sample Links If you are reading this from paper (rather than from a computer screen under Acro- bat,) you may want to skip this section. To give the overall flavor of the links, here are a few samples. Before proceeding, take a look at the top of your screen. There are two buttons of which you should be aware. They are the / and // buttons. These buttons get you back to where you were.4 With that in mind, you may wish to explore the following: A Message from the President Within Document The Great Rescue on EdenAgain The Great Red Dragon DragonRaid Introduction - Staley To the Web DragonRaid Resources - Sezov Official DragonRaid Web Site New Player Briefing Between Documents RuleBook Adventure Masters Manual 4The difference is that one takes you back to the prior page, the other goes back to the prior view (possibly of the same page). Preface LightRaider Handbook vi Contents Copyright Notices ii Preface iii SomeHistory............................... iii ThisEdition................................ iii SampleLinks............................... v Contents vi Tables xii I Introduction to DragonRaid 14 A Message from the President 15 The Great Rescue on EdenAgain 16 II The Dark Enemy 19 The Great Red Dragon 20 The Dragons’ Origin 22 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook vii General Description of Dragons 23 The Dragon Families 25 Crystal Dragons . 25 Gaze Dragons . 25 Fluorescent Dragons . 26 Firedrakes.................................... 26 Dream Dragons . 27 SlimeDragons.................................. 28 ShadowDragons ................................ 28 SeaSerpentsorSeaDragons.......................... 29 RainbowDragons................................ 30 Dark Creatures 33 DarkCreatureAttacks............................. 34 TypesofDarkCreatures............................ 34 CaveSpider................................ 34 FlusterBeast............................... 35 GallBuzzard............................... 36 Giant.................................... 37 Goblin................................... 38 GoldenCalf................................ 39 Greedo(Itchyfinger)........................... 40 Grim.................................... 41 MoundOrc................................ 42 Muk(WorryWart)............................ 43 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook viii Selfoe................................... 45 Skeleton.................................. 46 Troll.................................... 46 CaveTroll............................. 47 ForestTroll............................ 48 WaterTroll............................ 48 WoodSprite................................ 49 III The Victims of EdenAgain 51 IV The Fellowship of the Light 53 The OverLord of Many Names 54 The Sacred Scrolls and WordRunes 55 WhatareWordRunes?............................. 56 HowtoUseWordRunes............................ 56 Celestial Guardians 58 Pegasus..................................... 58 Unicorn..................................... 58 OtherForms................................... 58 WhatWeKnowAboutAngels......................... 59 Talking and Normal Animals 60 Other Good Creatures 61 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook ix LightRaiders and the TwiceBorn 62 CharacterStrengths.............................. 63 Love(LO)............................. 63 Joy(JO).............................. 64 Peace(PE)............................ 64 Patience(PA)........................... 64 Kindness (KI) . 64 Goodness(GO).......................... 64 Faithfulness(FA)......................... 65 Gentleness(GE)......................... 65 Self-Control(SC)......................... 65 Character Abilities and Defensive Abilities . 65 Introduction................................ 65 List of Abilities . 66 Blend with Surroundings (BWS) . 66 Climb Skillfully (CLS) . 67 ConversewithAnimals(CA)................... 67 Courage(CO)........................... 67 Endurance (EN) . 67 EvadeEnemy(EE)........................ 68 HatredofEvil(HE)....................... 68 Hope(HO)............................ 68 Knowledge(KN)......................... 69 Listening(LIS).......................... 69 MercifulCompassion(MC)................... 69 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook x PersuadeFoe(PF)........................ 69 QuietMovement(QM)...................... 70 RecoverfromInjury(RFI).................... 70 ResistTorturousInvestigation(RT)............... 70 RighteouslyMinglewithEvil(RME).............. 70 SenseEvil(SE).......................... 71 TalkwithLocals(TL)...................... 71 TrackEnemy(TE)........................ 71 Vision(VIS)............................ 71 WaterMovement(WM)..................... 72 Wisdom(WIS).......................... 72 PhysicalVitality(PV)...................... 72 Strength(ST)........................... 72 Agility (AG) . 73 Weapon Abilities . 73 ArmorofGod.................................. 76 BeltofTruth(BT)........................ 76 BreastplateofRighteousness(BR)............... 76 ShieldofFaith(SF)........................ 76 HelmetofSalvation(HS)..................... 77 SwordofTheSpirit(SS)..................... 77 TheBootsoftheGospelofPeace(BGP)............ 77 GreatRescueWordRunes........................... 78 TheFantasticInvitation......................... 78 BattlePrayer.................................. 81 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook xi SpecialWordRunes............................... 81 SpecialCharacterRoles............................ 83 LionWarrior............................ 84 WolfSoldier............................ 85 BearKnight............................ 85 AnimalMaster........................... 86 Renewer.............................. 87 KnightoftheWay........................ 87 OverLord’sGuard......................... 87 RescueMaster........................... 88 RaidLeader............................ 88 GuardianoftheLight...................... 88 V The World of Talania 90 Geographical Survey 91 TheLiberatedLand.............................. 91 The Dragon Lands . 92 Monetary Systems 94 VI WordRunes and TeamRunes 97 WordRunes 98 TeamRunes 119 A Message from Earth 126 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook xii Internet Resources 128 CONTENTS LightRaider Handbook xiii List of Tables 1 Key to Dragon Families . 31 2 Summary of Dragon Weapon Effects . 31 3 Distance of Dragon FireWeapons . 32 4 CloseCombatWeapons......................... 75 5 DistanceWeapons............................. 75 6 Multiple Use Weapons (can be used close–up or at a distance) . 75 7 AvailableAnimalsfortheAnimalMaster...............