This book includes all the material you need to run adventures in The Age of Wonders, using the Old-School Essentials (OSE) framework to support the Magiverse’s defining pillars. Indeed, while The Age of Wonders includes space vessels, magi-carbines, and Stirge flying packs, its core very much remains a faithful adaptation of the world's most popular fantasy role playing game. This approach creates a new backdrop for familiar play: Characters advance in level by defeating monsters and retrieving treasure, though all of space is the campaign’s wilderness, and dungeons are ancient alien ruins on dead planets, abandoned pirate outposts on rogue moons, or derelict space vessels floating in the wastes of space. Thus, asteroids, planets, and moons have breathable atmospheres, unless the lack of oxygen is important to the story "magic items" are futuristic gadgets, difficult to make, nearly impossible to understand, and only mostly reliable vast interstellar distances take only as much time to cross as the current adventure’s plot requires. Effects are more important than their causes, and a good story is more important than the boundaries of science.
In the Magiverse, technology is powered by barely mastered arcane forces - the laws of time and physics take a back seat to heroic adventure. The Age of Wonders depicts a science-fantasy future that blends magical energies with technical anachronism, space opera with planetary romance, and the traditional treasure-hunting elements of fantasy RPGs with the unlimited variety of outer space exploration. Age of Wonders Requires Old-School Essentials. Welcome to the Magiverse! The Age of Wonders extends the scope of Basic/Expert-style RPGs to outer space.
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