BATTLESYSTEM:
Birthright

Properly speaking, this is not a Battlesystem supplement, but rather an AD&D supplement which might be useful to Battlesystem players.

The Campaign Setting: The basic premise is that the gods were destroyed in a titanic battle, and that their powers have been passed in diluted form to those characters who are Blooded. The Blooded folk have enhanced abilities to rule. Other than this, the land of Cerilia is your typical medieval fantasy world - inhabited by men, elves, dwarves, halflings, goblins, ogres (but no orcs!). Players are expected to take roles on the side of Good.

The Campaign System: The new rules create a mega-turn - the Domain Turn - which is played between and around normal adventures. The Domain Turn is when those players who rule lands, guilds, or temples do their governing. They exercise power by spending money, Regency Points,, and by using a limited number of Actions. When military activities occur, they can be resolved using normal AD&D combat, or the medium-scale skirmish rules in these rules, or can be fought using War Cards and a BattleMat (i.e., a boardgaming system).

Note that the Campaign System can be used independently of the Campaign Setting, though the rules give you no help in doing so. There are also brief rules for creating your own kingdoms, instead of using the pre-generated ones which are part of Cerilia. In other words, you could transplant this campaign system to any AD&D campaign of your own.

Using Battlesystem to resolve battles from a Birthright campaign looks fairly straightforward, as all the Birthright units have corresponding units under Battlesystem. The reverse is not the case - there are many troop types in Battlesystem which have no equivalent in Birthright, though it wouldn't be hard to figure out how to convert the stats into Birthright's simpler system.

Boxed set includes:

• 96-page rules booklet
• 32-page Atlas of Cerilia booklet [player's guide]
• 96-page Ruins of Empire booklet [DM's guide]
• 4-panel DM's screen
• 2 poster maps showing the lands of Cerilia
• Battle Mat [poster]
• 112 War Cards
• folding War Chest [card storage]
• 12 full-size reference cards